Challenging Neoliberalism in Latin America

Informationen zum Autor Eduardo Silva is Professor of Political Science and a Fellow of the Center for International Studies at the University of Missouri - St. Louis. He is the author of The State and Capital in Chile and coeditor of Organized Business, Economic Change, and Democracy in Latin America and Elections and Democratization in Latin America, 1980–85. His articles have appeared in World Politics, Comparative Politics, Development and Change, Latin American Research Review, Journal of Latin American Studies, Latin American Politics and Society, and European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, among others. Klappentext Eduardo Silva offers the first comprehensive comparative study of anti-free market movements in Latin America and a resulting shift in governmental intervention in the economy and society. Zusammenfassung At the turn of the twentieth century! the rise of diverse social movements protesting the free market and advocating socialization ushered in governments in Argentina! Bolivia! Ecuador! and Venezuela. Silva offers the first comparative account! analyzing the motive for the protests and the power of the movements behind them. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. The inconvenient fact of antineoliberal mobilization; 2. Contentious politics, contemporary market society, and power; 3. The argument: explaining episodes of antineoliberal contention in Latin America; 4. Argentina; 5. Bolivia; 6. Ecuador; 7. Venezuela; 8. Peru and Chile; Conclusion.

Product details

• Authors: Eduardo Silva, Eduardo (University of Missouri Silva
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.08.2009
• EAN: 9780521879934
• ISBN: 978-0-521-87993-4
• No. of pages: 336
• Series: Cambridge Studies in Contentio; Cambridge Studies in Contentious Politics; Cambridge Studies in Contentio
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; POLITICAL SCIENCE / General, Politics & government, Comparative Politics, Latin America – Mexico, Central America, South America