Conflicto y concertacion. Gobierno, congreso y organizaciones de interes en la reforma laboral del primer gobierno de menem (1989-1995)

The goal of the article is to analyze the labor reform policy under Menem's first government. We argue that, while the literature points to the demise of concertation mechanisms to formulate policies, the Argentine case shows that labor reforms are passed only when they are concerted with inter...

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Autores principales: Etchemendy, S., Palermo, V.
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spelling todo:paper_0046001X_v37_n148_p559_Etchemendy2023-10-03T14:52:07Z Conflicto y concertacion. Gobierno, congreso y organizaciones de interes en la reforma laboral del primer gobierno de menem (1989-1995) Etchemendy, S. Palermo, V. governance approach labour reform political economy reform process Argentina The goal of the article is to analyze the labor reform policy under Menem's first government. We argue that, while the literature points to the demise of concertation mechanisms to formulate policies, the Argentine case shows that labor reforms are passed only when they are concerted with interest organizations. Besides, we contend that in the 1994-95 period the state enjoyed a certain degree of autonomy and political power which was indispensable to organize a concertation space between unions and business peak associations. Finally, our view is that, despite its importance for the government's macroeconomic scheme, the labor reform bargaining process was to a great extent blocked. One the one hand, because, unlike other market reforms, labor reforms give rise to relatively homogeneous class alignments among interest organizations; on the other hand because labor reform directly involves the traditional political bases of peronism, both in symbolic terms and at the level of interests, and hence it affected the general coalition policy of the reformist government. JOUR info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.5/ar http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12110/paper_0046001X_v37_n148_p559_Etchemendy
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topic governance approach
labour reform
political economy
reform process
Argentina
spellingShingle governance approach
labour reform
political economy
reform process
Argentina
Etchemendy, S.
Palermo, V.
Conflicto y concertacion. Gobierno, congreso y organizaciones de interes en la reforma laboral del primer gobierno de menem (1989-1995)
topic_facet governance approach
labour reform
political economy
reform process
Argentina
description The goal of the article is to analyze the labor reform policy under Menem's first government. We argue that, while the literature points to the demise of concertation mechanisms to formulate policies, the Argentine case shows that labor reforms are passed only when they are concerted with interest organizations. Besides, we contend that in the 1994-95 period the state enjoyed a certain degree of autonomy and political power which was indispensable to organize a concertation space between unions and business peak associations. Finally, our view is that, despite its importance for the government's macroeconomic scheme, the labor reform bargaining process was to a great extent blocked. One the one hand, because, unlike other market reforms, labor reforms give rise to relatively homogeneous class alignments among interest organizations; on the other hand because labor reform directly involves the traditional political bases of peronism, both in symbolic terms and at the level of interests, and hence it affected the general coalition policy of the reformist government.
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author Etchemendy, S.
Palermo, V.
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Palermo, V.
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title Conflicto y concertacion. Gobierno, congreso y organizaciones de interes en la reforma laboral del primer gobierno de menem (1989-1995)
title_short Conflicto y concertacion. Gobierno, congreso y organizaciones de interes en la reforma laboral del primer gobierno de menem (1989-1995)
title_full Conflicto y concertacion. Gobierno, congreso y organizaciones de interes en la reforma laboral del primer gobierno de menem (1989-1995)
title_fullStr Conflicto y concertacion. Gobierno, congreso y organizaciones de interes en la reforma laboral del primer gobierno de menem (1989-1995)
title_full_unstemmed Conflicto y concertacion. Gobierno, congreso y organizaciones de interes en la reforma laboral del primer gobierno de menem (1989-1995)
title_sort conflicto y concertacion. gobierno, congreso y organizaciones de interes en la reforma laboral del primer gobierno de menem (1989-1995)
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