The Inclusionary Turn in Latin American Democracies

2020-11

Author : Diana Kapiszewski
Release : 2020-11
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Download or read book The Inclusionary Turn in Latin American Democracies written by Diana Kapiszewski. This book was released on 2020-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This book examines movement toward greater inclusion across Latin America over the last three decades, which its authors refer to as an "inclusionary turn". It introduces three dimensions of inclusion: official recognition of historically excluded groups; access to policymaking; and resource distribution, and considers to what degree, how, and why, each has been enhanced since the 1990s. The volume's chapters, many based on original empirical research, explore how factors such as the role of partisanship and electoral clientelism, constitutional design, state capacity, social protest, populism, commodity rents, international diffusion, and historical legacies encouraged or inhibited inclusionary reform. Contributors also analyze the promise and pitfalls of participatory institutions, the expansion of social policy to previously excluded groups, the entry of evangelical Christians into politics, "rentier populism," and the impact of populism on ethnic identities. Overall, the book seeks to establish a new research agenda focused on how inclusionary reforms intersect and interact, and what their introduction means for citizenship in democratic Latin America"--

The Inclusionary Turn in Latin American Democracies

2021-02-04 Political Science

Author : Diana Kapiszewski
Release : 2021-02-04
Genre : Political Science
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Download or read book The Inclusionary Turn in Latin American Democracies written by Diana Kapiszewski. This book was released on 2021-02-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Latin American states took dramatic steps toward greater inclusion during the late twentieth and early twenty-first Centuries. Bringing together an accomplished group of scholars, this volume examines this shift by introducing three dimensions of inclusion: official recognition of historically excluded groups, access to policymaking, and resource redistribution. Tracing the movement along these dimensions since the 1990s, the editors argue that the endurance of democratic politics, combined with longstanding social inequalities, create the impetus for inclusionary reforms. Diverse chapters explore how factors such as the role of partisanship and electoral clientelism, constitutional design, state capacity, social protest, populism, commodity rents, international diffusion, and historical legacies encouraged or inhibited inclusionary reform during the late 1990s and early 2000s. Featuring original empirical evidence and a strong theoretical framework, the book considers cross-national variation, delves into the surprising paradoxes of inclusion, and identifies the obstacles hindering further fundamental change.

The Third Wave of Democratization in Latin America

2005-06-06 Political Science

Author : Frances Hagopian
Release : 2005-06-06
Genre : Political Science
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Download or read book The Third Wave of Democratization in Latin America written by Frances Hagopian. This book was released on 2005-06-06. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The late twentieth century witnessed the birth of an impressive number of new democracies in Latin America. This wave of democratization since 1978 has been by far the broadest and most durable in the history of Latin America, but many of the resulting democratic regimes also suffer from profound deficiencies. What caused democratic regimes to emerge and survive? What are their main achievements and shortcomings? This volume offers an ambitious and comprehensive overview of the unprecedented advances as well as the setbacks in the post-1978 wave of democratization. It seeks to explain the sea change from a region dominated by authoritarian regimes to one in which openly authoritarian regimes are the rare exception, and it analyzes why some countries have achieved striking gains in democratization while others have experienced erosions. The book presents general theoretical arguments about what causes and sustains democracy and analyses of nine compelling country cases.

Leftist Governments in Latin America

2010-07-05 Political Science

Author : Kurt Weyland
Release : 2010-07-05
Genre : Political Science
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Download or read book Leftist Governments in Latin America written by Kurt Weyland. This book was released on 2010-07-05. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Can Latin America's 'new left' stimulate economic development, enhance social equity, and deepen democracy in spite of the economic and political constraints it faces? This is the first book to systematically examine the policies and performance of the left-wing governments that have risen to power in Latin America during the last decade. Featuring thorough studies of Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, and Venezuela by renowned experts, the volume argues that moderate leftist governments have attained greater, more sustainable success than their more radical, contestatory counterparts. Moderate governments in Brazil and Chile have generated solid economic growth, reduced poverty and inequality, and created innovative and fiscally sound social programs, while respecting the fundamental principles of market economics and liberal democracy. By contrast, more radical governments, exemplified by Hugo Chávez in Venezuela, have expanded state intervention and popular participation and attained some short-term economic and social successes.

Voice and Inequality

2021 Political Science

Author : Carew Boulding
Release : 2021
Genre : Political Science
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Download or read book Voice and Inequality written by Carew Boulding. This book was released on 2021. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "How do poor people in Latin America participate in politics? What explains the variation in the patterns of voting, protesting, and contacting government for the region's poorest citizens? Why are participation gaps larger in some countries than in others? This book offers the first large scale empirical analysis of political participation in Latin America, focusing on patterns of participation among the poorest citizens in each country, and comparing those patterns to those of individuals with more resources. Far from being politically inert, under certain conditions the poorest citizens in Latin America can act and speak for themselves with an intensity that far exceeds their modest socioeconomic resources. We argue that key institutions of democracy, namely civil society, political parties, and competitive elections, have an enormous impact on whether or not poor people turn out to vote, protest, and contact government officials. When voluntary organizations thrive in poor communities and when political parties focus their mobilization efforts on poor individuals, they respond with high levels of political activism. Poor people's activism also benefits from strong parties, robust electoral competition and well-functioning democratic institutions. Where electoral competition is robust and where the power of incumbents is constrained, we see higher levels of participation by poor individuals and more political equality. Precisely because the individual resource constraints that poor people face are daunting obstacles to political activism, our explanation focuses on those features of democratic politics that create opportunities for participation that have the strongest effect on poor people's political behavior"--

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