Abstract

VILAS, Carlos M.. Poverty, inequality and democratic sustainability: the short cycle of the argentinean crisis. Rev. Mex. Sociol [online]. 2005, vol.67, n.2, pp.229-269. ISSN 2594-0651.

In recent years, poverty and inequality in Argentina have accelerated their long-term growth. The adoption in late 2001 of a set of monetary and financial polices triggered the social unrest that led to the overthrow of the government in the midst of an extraordinary degree of popular agitation. The lack of political projection in response to this social protest created the conditions for the crisis to be overcome by institutional actors within the political system. The design of a package of urgent welfare policies and changes in the handling of certain macroeconomic instruments managed to contain the most virulent expressions of social protest.

Keywords : democracy; inequality; political crisis; social protest; neoliberalism.

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