From additives to shock absorbers: Changes in the social healthcare intervention model

Abstract

This article will present the remake of what we have called the welfare intervention model (Arias, 2012) comparing two moments, on one hand, the model consolidated at the end of Kirchnerism period and another linked to socials transformation on the current stage.
To do this, we will briefly present the idea of the intervention model and some particular features of the model that we call "additive" in the Kirchnerist period, and then we will describe the compensatory model, that is locate in this stage, named as "shock absorber" model. We will introduce some new ideas of the investigation called "Social Organizations of the National-Popular Tradition, from the government of Cambiemos political coalition. A study case about the reconfiguration of the territorial management activity and the relations with the State in the capital region. This investigation was developed in the frame of the Institute of Social Work Studies and Society of La Plata National University. We analyze also the current peculiarities of the relationship between social organizations and state demands, wich we describe as a lost of state condition in the territories.
Although we will mention other government areas but we focus our analysis on the transformation of the Ministry of Social Development of the Nation because this is the area specialized in assistential issues.