Abstract
Delamonica, Moudud and Perez Caldentey analyse recent attempts to construct progressive taxation, social and labour policies in the context of unequal power relations and struggles for social justice in Argentina and Chile. As elsewhere, employers tended to oppose such policies, using various formal and informal mechanisms to push back against them. The authors argue that power relations between state and business are shaped by the political cohesiveness of the latter, that is, the ability of firms to act in concert to politically promote their own policy agendas. At the same time, power struggles also include workers and social movements who exert pressures on the state for egalitarian policies. A key difference between Chile and Argentina is the high level of business cohesiveness in Chile.
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