학위논문(석사) -- 서울대학교대학원 : 국제대학원 국제학과(국제협력전공), 2021.8. 김종섭.This thesis paper examines the effects of populist regimes on social expenditure and different subcategories of social expenditure (education, health and social protection) using a data set of 18 Latin American countries between 1991 and 2017. Results indicate that populist regimes in Latin America are positively associated with an increase in social expenditure as percentage of GDP specially for health and education expenditure, whereas for social protection there is no statistically significant. I argue that the constituency of populist regimes does affect the public expenditure to back specific social policies. Across the history of populism in Latin America, the constituency of po...