Seminar: The Uruguayan case: a possible model for Chile? - Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data

SUMMARY

The outbreak of 2019 and its institutional legacy (the current Constituent Convention), as well as the process of profound change of elites crystallized in the electoral irruption and arrival of the Frente Amplio to the government, have called into question the "Chilean model". Until 2019, this model was seen as a possible path towards development in Latin America, both by the local public policy community, as well as by its international counterparts and the technical staff of the main multilateral organizations.

As reflected in a recent report in The Economist, the Chilean and regional crises have placed(by default) the Uruguayan case as a possible alternative to guide the search for a development model for the region. Uruguay combines a social structure that pivots on a broad middle class (according to regional parameters) with a stable political system, socially legitimate and capable of combining significant doses of competition and cooperation. An extended social protection system with state financing and provision, as well as a labor bargaining system in which trade unions have a strong political weight, are key pieces of the political economy of a society that generates a less dynamic growth pattern, but which has proved to be institutionally more stable and legitimate: What can Chile learn from the Uruguayan case? What aspects of the Chilean model can be useful to think about the structural limitations and challenges that Uruguay must face? In order to initiate this exchange, we will conduct the following workshop to analyze public policies implemented by the Frente Amplio in Uruguay.

PRESENT

Moderator:

Loreto Cox, School of Government UC.

Gabriel Oddone (Universidad ORT, UDELAR): The political economy of the Uruguayan case.

Juan Bogliaccini (UCUDAL): Varieties of capitalism: Chile and Uruguay in comparative perspective.

Fernando Filgueira (UDELAR): Uruguay and its "architecture" of social protection

Comment:

Josefina Araos (Institute for the Study of Society)

Andrea Repetto (Universidad Adolfo Ibañez)

Organizers:

UC School of Government, Center for Public Policy, Millennium Institute Foundational Research on Data

WHERE AND WHEN

Auditorium 51

Patio Alameda Building

Av. Libertador Bernado O'Higgins (Alameda) 440, Santiago.

Limited space available.

Registration at: https://politicaspublicasuc.typeform.com/to/CGow2MGy?typeform-source=t.co