What is it about?
Uses an interruption in Chile's state milk program to propose the extension of a critical juncture framework to cases of institutional continuity
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Why is it important?
Adds to institutionalist literature and provides window to local health clinics and everyday resistance to neoliberal reform during Chilean dictatorship.
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The “arroz con leche” protests came up frequently in my interviews, with an importance disproportionate to the brief time period of the incident. It took extensive digging through media archives and triangulation of over 50 interviews to piece together this incident where active and unplanned expert and citizen resistance successfully forced the regime to back down from its neoliberal agenda. Product of this incident, Chile maintained the infant-maternal health programs that are the backbone of its primary health network.
PhD Jael Goldsmith Weil
Universidad Central de Chile
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This page is a summary of: Using Critical Junctures to Explain Continuity: The Case of State Milk in Neoliberal Chile, Bulletin of Latin American Research, June 2016, Wiley,
DOI: 10.1111/blar.12516.
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