30 years building the regime paraguayan informal security

Abstract

In 2019, Paraguay celebrated 30 years of democratic transition and, although progress is recognized in various aspects, there are still many shortcomings of the State and doubts about the ability to guarantee, for all its citizens, through goods, services and regulations as is established in the Constitutional Law (art. 6th). This article aims to contribute to the area of ​​social policies in Paraguay, first conceptualizing the States / Welfare Regimes and the Paraguayan State as a unit of analysis where its historical characteristics, the Society-Market and State relations and the strong link with political patronage in its formation and expansion from the middle of the 20th century to the present day. In a second block, we review how these concepts developed are materialized through social policies, their characteristics, main strategies, programs and emblematic projects implemented and the evolution of the institutionality throughout three stages or phases that are well differentiated from each other: a ) the period corresponding to the years 1989 to 2002 characterized by being the initial or incipient phase of state intervention in social matters; b) second stage from 2003 to 2013, start of programs to fight against poverty, as well as the consolidation of some universal programs & politics and the expansion of the main constitutional social rights; and c) the period corresponding to the years 2013 to 2018, where there is a rupture and reconfiguration (both conceptually and programmatic- institutionally) of state management in terms of social policies.