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Is there a Common Path that could have Conditioned the Degree of Welfare State Development in L atin A merica and the C aribbean?
Author(s) -
CRUZMARTINEZ GIBRAN
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
bulletin of latin american research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.24
H-Index - 33
eISSN - 1470-9856
pISSN - 0261-3050
DOI - 10.1111/blar.12556
Subject(s) - openness to experience , left wing politics , welfare , democracy , economics , path (computing) , welfare state , degree (music) , contrast (vision) , state (computer science) , perspective (graphical) , classical economics , political science , demographic economics , psychology , mathematics , physics , market economy , social psychology , computer science , law , politics , acoustics , geometry , optics , programming language , algorithm
The purpose of this paper is to re‐examine from a multidimensional perspective the possible existence of a single path that could have conditioned the degree of welfare state development ( WSD ) in L atin A merica. Economic/industrial development, trade‐openness, democracy and the strength of leftist parties‐labour movement are used as explanatory variables in the qualitative comparative analysis. In contrast to previous findings, this paper shows that there is no evidence of a common path followed by countries with a relatively high/medium WSD . Nevertheless, countries that experienced a low economic/industrial development combined with a low democratic experience were conditioned to have low WSD .