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Advancing Toward the Past: The Dismantling of the Unified Social Assistance System

In: Social Policy Dismantling and De-democratization in Brazil

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  • Mônica de Castro Maia Senna

    (Fluminense Federal University)

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The chapter analyses the recent changes within the Unified Social Assistance System (SUAS) in Brazil, as part of a policy dismantling. It focuses on identifying the causes, conditions, and strategies adopted by the political actors, and also analyzing how this process affects the social assistance policy. The guiding hypothesis is that changes in the political coalition made the return of conservative, and neoliberal-oriented social groups possible. These groups took advantage of gaps and ambiguities in the design and implementation of the SUAS to reconfigure the policy’s instruments, subverting its principles and purposes. The changes are mainly justified by the permanent austerity, announced as necessary and inescapable, and find support from a segment of society, especially the middle strata, with its moral repertoire against the poorest people.

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  • Mônica de Castro Maia Senna, 2023. "Advancing Toward the Past: The Dismantling of the Unified Social Assistance System," Societies and Political Orders in Transition, in: Sonia Fleury (ed.), Social Policy Dismantling and De-democratization in Brazil, chapter 0, pages 189-216, Springer.
    • Handle: RePEc:spr:socchp:978-3-031-35110-5_8
    DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-35110-5_8
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