Framing Welfare Expansion: Citizenship, Collective Memory, and Fiscal Dilemmas in Mexico (1997-1998) and Peru (2005-2006)
Principal Investigator(s): View help for Principal Investigator(s) Daniela Campos Ugaz, University of Wisconsin-Madison
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Campos Ugaz, Daniela. Framing Welfare Expansion: Citizenship, Collective Memory, and Fiscal Dilemmas in Mexico (1997-1998) and Peru (2005-2006). Ann Arbor, MI: Inter-university Consortium for Political and Social Research [distributor], 2023-11-05. https://doi.org/10.3886/E194923V1
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The present study is an analysis of the congressional debates that led to the implementation of the Conditional Cash Transfer programs in Mexico (1997) and Peru (2005), focusing on the narratives mobilized by legislators and members of the Executive branch in deliberation. Empirically, the analysis is primarily based on transcripts of all relevant congressional debates in the Senate and House of Representatives (in Mexico, both chambers, Peru has a unicameral legislature). To identify the periods of analysis, I used secondary sources, newspaper articles, and executive decrees and traced the process of the program conception, discussion, and implementation. The process of locating newspaper articles consisted of Factiva searches of the original-language editions of newspapers in Mexico and Peru. For the case of Mexico, I searched under “Progresa” from January 1997 to January 1998 and got 68 hits. For the case of Peru, I searched under “Juntos” from January 2005 to January 2006. As expected, since the word Juntos in Spanish means “together,” I got a larger number of hits: 389. The articles come from a diversity of newspapers, but a third of the hits come from the most important general interest newspapers in both countries: El Universal in Mexico and El Comercio in Peru. From this process, I selected hearings in two contentious periods in the initial stage of the program: the debates following the program’s official launch by the Executive to the Congress (September 1997 in Mexico; February-July 2005 in Peru) and the budget approval/modification (November-December 1997 in Mexico; June and November 2005 in Peru). The hearings lasted an average of four hours each. All the debates were conducted in Spanish.
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