Universalism at the subnational level in Argentina and Brazil

In highly decentralized countries, social protection that individuals receive comes from the interaction of national and subnational levels of government.  Argentine provinces and Brazilian states receive nationally designed policies and design their own social programs to different degrees.  This presentation will describe the extent to which the 24 provinces in Argentina and the 27 states in Brazil provide different levels of basic universal social protection to its residents. By coding the level of universalism in health, education, employment, family allowances, food, pension, and care, it will propose a classification of these different social policy choices at the subnational level from the 1990s to the present.