04095nam 2200817Ia 450 991081926390332120200520144314.01-107-14723-91-280-47777-60-511-19517-60-511-19583-40-511-19376-90-511-32712-90-511-51023-30-511-19450-1(CKB)1000000000353379(EBL)259880(OCoLC)171138748(SSID)ssj0000158098(PQKBManifestationID)11182089(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000158098(PQKBWorkID)10140358(PQKB)10307703(UkCbUP)CR9780511510236(MiAaPQ)EBC259880(Au-PeEL)EBL259880(CaPaEBR)ebr10130370(CaONFJC)MIL47777(OCoLC)560223790(EXLCZ)99100000000035337920031007d2004 uy 0engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierFree market democracy and the Chilean and Mexican countryside /Marcus J. Kurtz1st ed.Cambridge, UK ;New York Cambridge University Press20041 online resource (ix, 253 pages) digital, PDF file(s)Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).0-521-53474-7 0-521-82737-X Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-247) and index.Part 1 : The framework and theoretical argument. Posing the right questions -- The sectoral foundations of free market democracy -- Part 2 : The cases. Neoliberalism and the transformation of rural society in Chile -- Social capital, organization, political participation, and democratic competition in Chile -- The consolidation of free market democracy and Chilean electoral competition, 1988-2000 -- Markets and democratization in Mexico : rural politics between corporatism and neoliberalism -- Part 3 : Conclusions and implications. Political competitiveness, organized interests, and the democratic market.This book examines the relationship between free markets and democracy. It demonstrates how the implementation of even very painful free-market economic reforms in Chile and Mexico have helped to consolidate democratic politics without engendering a backlash against either reform or democratization. This national-level compatibility between free markets and democracy, however, is founded on their rural incompatibility. In the countryside, free-market reforms socially isolate peasants to such a degree that they become unable to organize independently, and are vulnerable to the pressures of local economic elites. This helps to create an electoral coalition behind free-market reforms that is critically based in some of the market's biggest victims: the peasantry. The book concludes that the comparatively stable free-market democracy in Latin America hinges critically on its defects in the countryside; conservative, free-market elites may consent to open politics only if they have a rural electoral redoubt.DemocracyChileDemocracyMexicoFree enterpriseChileFree enterpriseMexicoRural populationChileRural populationMexicoPolitical participationChilePolitical participationMexicoDemocracyDemocracyFree enterpriseFree enterpriseRural populationRural populationPolitical participationPolitical participation320.972Kurtz Marcus J0MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910819263903321Free market democracy and the Chilean and Mexican countryside3973430UNINA