Cooptación y cerrazón. Las políticas sociales en los gobiernos de Agustín P. Justo y Juan D. Perón

Abstract

Cooptation and blind obstinacy. Social policies in Agustín P. Justo and Juan D. Perón governments. This article proposes a social and historical understanding of nation’s past, using sociologists and political tools such as concepts of policy formulation, politics, cooptation and blind obstinacy, to explain how Agustín P. Justo and Juan D. Perón power is founded and retained. On this theoretical framework, the emphasis will be on some aspects of social policies implemented by those governments, which moving between opulence and poverty, without abandoning “social control”, apply corrective policies for inequality –both in recipients as in the technical and bureaucratic staffs that implement them– which shown cooptation of members of a majority.