Free market democracy and the Chilean and Mexican countryside / / Marcus J. Kurtz
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| Autore: |
Kurtz Marcus J.
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| Titolo: |
Free market democracy and the Chilean and Mexican countryside / / Marcus J. Kurtz
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| Pubblicazione: | Cambridge : , : 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. |
| Altri titoli varianti: | Free Market Democracy & the Chilean & Mexican Countryside |
| 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.: | 9910974059403321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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