State policies for social and solidarity economy. State as an arena for disputes of government agenda (Argentina 2020)

Abstract

 In this research, based on the notions of co-construction, co-production and arenas in dispute, we are interested in analyzing the interfaces that occur between the organizations of the Social and Solidarity Economy (SSE), -particularity those related to the worker cooperatives-, the leaders of the sector and those in charge of state policies oriented to the sector in Argentina, during the first months of the national government assumed in 2019 and in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic. The approach adopted is that of methodological triangulation, focused on primary information sources (self-administered questionnaires with closed questions) and secondary (bibliography and official reports). We consider the state as an arena in which part of the contradictions are deployed, reproduced and condensed through disputes that social groups engage in over specific resources. From this perspective, we identify three arenas in which the goverment agenda is disputed and determine the co-construction and mono-construction of productive policies