POLC91H3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Corporatism, Neoliberalism, Structural Adjustment

• School: UTSC
• Department: Political Science
• Course: POLC91H3
• Professor: Judith Teichman

Document Summary

Since the return to democracy there has been high levels of inequality; pensions, education. Now there is a center-right gov"t in power. There was optimism when it returned to civilian rule, but did not change all that quickly. -only 45% of chileans thought democracy was preferable to any other form of gov"t 2001 undp survey. -chileans disagree over the issue of inequality not all of them think that this is a problem, surveys show that 30-50% of those surveyed think that inequality is not a problem. One of the responses suggested that a significant portion of ppl think that high levels of inequality are necessary for economic development. Upper and middle class ppl do just fine; they don"t see that there is a problem. Already had one big program, but he has added more targeted to ppl whoa re extremely poor and moderately poor. There is no change to the basic structure of service provision;