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Redefining Who’s ‘In’ and Who’s ‘Out’: Explaining Preferences for Redistribution in Bolivia

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  • Matthew Carnes
  • Isabela Mares

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How does welfare state expansion reconfigure political coalitions? This paper challenges traditional accounts that pit social policy ‘insiders’, who univocally oppose policy expansion, against ‘outsiders’ who favour it. It argues that labour market vulnerability and partisan cues can play a critical role in shaping the preferences of both insiders and outsiders, and thus produce new pro-expansion coalitions. To test this claim, it employs historical analysis of key social insurance configurations in Bolivia over the last 30 years, as well as an original survey carried out in Bolivia following that nation’s 2007 extension of a noncontributory national minimum pension.

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  • Matthew Carnes & Isabela Mares, 2016. "Redefining Who’s ‘In’ and Who’s ‘Out’: Explaining Preferences for Redistribution in Bolivia," Journal of Development Studies, Taylor & Francis Journals, vol. 52(11), pages 1647-1664, November.
    • Handle: RePEc:taf:jdevst:v:52:y:2016:i:11:p:1647-1664
    DOI: 10.1080/00220388.2016.1156091
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