RT Journal Article
T1 Is there a Common Path that could have Conditioned the Degree of Welfare State Development in Latin America and the Caribbean?
A1 Cruz-Martínez, Gibrán
AB 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 Latin America. 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.
PB Wiley
SN 0261-3050
YR 2017
FD 2017-09-05
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/96781
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/96781
LA eng
DS Docta Complutense
RD 7 jun 2026