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Is there a Common Path that could have Conditioned the Degree of Welfare State Development in Latin America and the Caribbean? Cruz Martínez, Gibrán Alberto 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. 2024-01-30T18:52:10Z 2024-01-30T18:52:10Z 2024-01-30T18:52:10Z 2017-09-05 journal article https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/96781 0261-3050 10.1111/blar.12556 1470-9856 eng http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ open access Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International Wiley