Religious Actors in Social Policies in Argentina in the XXI Century. The Historical Mutations of a ‘Subsidiary’ Logic

Abstract

The article analyzes the participation of actors and organizations with a religious background in social policies in Argentina in the 21st Century. In order to understand the configuration of certain logics that enable such prominence in contemporary processes, we start from a brief historicization that allowed us to visualize «subsidiary» forms of action that have a long tradition in the country. Subsequently, and in order to make intelligible the participation of religious actors in the area of social policies at present, the work is concentrated in a limited set of indicators: the definition of social policies;the implementation of poverty assistance policies;the management of policies to promote productive ventures; (...)