The Microfoundations of Latin America's Social Policy Coalitions: The Insider/Outsider Labor Divide and Attitudes toward Different Welfare Programs in Mexico

IF 4.5 1区 社会学 Q1 INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS World Politics Pub Date : 2023-01-01 DOI:10.1353/wp.2023.0001
Andy Baker
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abstract :In Latin America, formal workers (labor insiders) and informal workers (outsiders) tend to be enrolled in distinct welfare programs, so scholars generally assume that a fundamental political cleavage pits insiders against outsiders. According to a meta-analysis reported in this article, however, survey-based studies have hitherto shown the two groups to have relatively similar social policy preferences. The article seeks to reconcile these two strains by arguing that the insider/outsider binary oversimplifies the reality of Latin American labor markets. Workers' frequent movement between the two sectors as well as marriages between informal and formal workers endow many individuals with mixed policy interests. Using an original and nationally representative poll of Mexican adults, this article shows that an insider/outsider attitudinal cleavage does exist but is widest between informal and formal workers without mixed interests. The article also shows how new survey questions that improve on previous measures produce stronger relationships between labor traits and attitudes. The findings have implications for the study of social policy coalitions and insider/outsider politics in Latin America and beyond.
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拉丁美洲社会政策联盟的微观基础:墨西哥内部/外部的劳动力差距和对不同福利计划的态度
在拉丁美洲,正式工人(内部劳工)和非正式工人(外部劳工)往往参与不同的福利计划,因此学者们普遍认为内部工人和外部工人之间存在根本的政治分歧。然而,根据本文报道的荟萃分析,迄今为止基于调查的研究表明,这两个群体具有相对相似的社会政策偏好。本文试图调和这两种矛盾,认为内部人/外部人二元论过分简化了拉美劳动力市场的现实。工人在两个部门之间的频繁流动以及非正式工人和正式工人之间的婚姻赋予了许多个人混合的政策利益。通过对墨西哥成年人进行的一项具有全国代表性的原始民意调查,这篇文章表明,内部/外部态度的分歧确实存在,但在没有混合利益的非正式和正式工人之间最为广泛。这篇文章还展示了新的调查问题是如何在以前的测量方法的基础上产生更强的劳动特征和态度之间的关系的。这些发现对拉丁美洲及其他地区的社会政策联盟和内部/外部政治的研究具有启示意义。
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期刊介绍: World Politics, founded in 1948, is an internationally renowned quarterly journal of political science published in both print and online versions. Open to contributions by scholars, World Politics invites submission of research articles that make theoretical and empirical contributions to the literature, review articles, and research notes bearing on problems in international relations and comparative politics. The journal does not publish articles on current affairs, policy pieces, or narratives of a journalistic nature. Articles submitted for consideration are unsolicited, except for review articles, which are usually commissioned. Published for the Princeton Institute for International and Regional Affairs
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