Free market democracy and the Chilean and Mexican countryside / / Marcus J. Kurtz

• Autore: Kurtz Marcus J
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge, UK ; ; New York, : Cambridge University Press, 2004
• Edizione: 1st ed.
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (ix, 253 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 320.972
• Soggetto topico: Democracy - Chile; Democracy - Mexico; Free enterprise - Chile; Free enterprise - Mexico; Rural population - Chile; Rural population - Mexico; Political participation - Chile; Political participation - Mexico
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 227-247) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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.
• Sommario/riassunto: 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.
• Titolo autorizzato: Free market democracy and the Chilean and Mexican countryside
• ISBN: 1-107-14723-9; 1-280-47777-6; 0-511-19517-6; 0-511-19583-4; 0-511-19376-9; 0-511-32712-9; 0-511-51023-3; 0-511-19450-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910819263903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II