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Latin American State Building in Comparative Perspective

Social Foundations of Institutional Order

By: Marcus J. Kurtz

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Latin American State Building in Comparative Perspective

Social Foundations of Institutional Order

By: Marcus J. Kurtz

Latin American State Building in Comparative Perspective provides an account of long-run institutional development in Latin America that emphasizes the social and political foundations of state-building processes. The study argues that societal dynamics have path-dependent consequences at two critical points: the initial consolidation of national institutions in the wake of independence, and at the time when the 'social question' of mass political incorporation forced its way into the national political agenda across the region during the Great Depression. Dynamics set into motion at these points in time have produced widely varying and stable distributions of state capacity in the region. Marcus J. Kurtz tests this argument using structured comparisons of the post-independence political development of Chile, Peru, Argentina and Uruguay.

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Free Market Democracy and the Chilean and Mexican Countryside

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Free Market Democracy and the Chilean and Mexican Countryside

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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.

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Latin American State Building in Comparative Perspective

Social Foundations of Institutional Order

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Latin American State Building in Comparative Perspective

Latin American State Building in Comparative Perspective

Free Market Democracy and the Chilean and Mexican Countryside

Free Market Democracy and the Chilean and Mexican Countryside

Latin American State Building in Comparative Perspective

Latin American State Building in Comparative Perspective

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