The same arguments that a decade ago the military used in several Latin American countries to overthrow governments. constitutional. The basic assumption is that the overload of demands on the State makes governability of the system impossible. The solution, therefore, cannot be other than to reduce that pressure. With this simple argument, which in the mid-1970s founded the idea of the "crisis of democracy", the decisive question remains unspecified: what are the pressures that must be discharged from the political system? In truth, the answer is implicit: what is already unmanageable, given the State's fiscal crisis, is its direct intervention in the economy (as a producer of goods and services) and its social intervention, as a redistributive agent.
As an exact replica of the discussion in the central countries about the crisis of the welfare state, the check is, in our countries, on the populist state, the local version of the «Keynesian coalition» that hegemonized the post-war economies. But are things really like that? It will be good to see them Email Lists Database in a little more detail. The crisis of populism The truth is that the redistributive model of populism died among us, Latin Americans, a long time ago, as the first adjustment response of local capitalism to the outbreak of the crisis in the mid-1970s.
To say today that the fundamental reason for the deterioration of the State is the excess of social interventionism sounds, at least, like an exaggeration in societies where the decline in living conditions worsens day by day, where there is no security or social provision, where marginality, malnutrition, disease, homelessness, illiteracy. While much is said -and rightly so- about the enormous accumulated external debt, little is said about the social debt contracted with the peoples, which can be summed up in a single fact: in a decade almost all Latin American societies have regressed more than 20 years on their well-being indices.
