Buying Social Peace: the Distribution of Social Plans During Cristina Kirchner and Mauricio Macri’s Governments

Authors

  • Romina Del Tredici Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Argentina Universidad Católica de Córdoba, Argentina https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5063-6109
  • Lucas González Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Argentina Universidad Nacional de San Martín y Universidad Católica Argentina, Argentina
  • Rodrigo Zarazaga Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Argentina Centro de Investigación y Acción Social, Argentina

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.46468/rsaap.17.1.A1

Keywords:

Social Programs, Discretionary Spending, Programmatic Spending, Social Movements, Argentina

Abstract

This work analyzes the distribution of social programs in Argentina and present a counterintuitive observation. The Justicialista Party of Argentina, which the literature describes as clientelistic, increased programmatic funds during the government of Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, while the Cambiemos coalition, which presented itself as programmatic, invested more in discretionary funds during the government of Mauricio Macri. The study presents a quantitative analysis of a total of 364 national government programs between 2008 and 2019, explores the processes that led to the resultsin both administrations using secondarysources, and concludeswith somecomparativeimplications. The main argument is that both parties in government distributed discretionary funds through social movements to contain possible social unrest, exchanging them for social peace and governability.

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Published

2024-05-15

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Vol. 17 No. 1 (2023): Publicación de Ciencia Política de la Sociedad Argentina de Análisis Político

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