South American post post neoliberalism: a view from the analysis of social policies

Abstract

About fifteen years ago, Emir Sader proposed the concept of post neoliberalism, assuming that the neoliberal era in south america had come to an end. Sader, a critic of neoliberalism, nevertheless agreed with him regarding the non-search for social homogeneity. Perhaps as a resignation, post neoliberalism never proposed equality but inclusion, and social policy played a very important role. This refers to less pretentious economic objectives, but to greater political openness: if we do not have to be all equal, we can allow diversity. Since 2015 we are witnessing a conservative turn both in the world and in the region. In South America it is a postpostneoliberal advance, which combines an orthodox economic ideology with a traditionalist rhetoric that opposes diversity. From an analysis of social policy in the new south american right-wing, we try to approach the new conceptions about the relationship between the state and the market, in order to better understand the meaning of the new (postpostneoliberal) right-wings in the region.