Free Market Democracy and the Chilean and Mexican Countryside

Zusammenfassung 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 at the same time engendering a backlash against either reform or democratization. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; Part I. The Framework and Theoretical Argument: 1. Posing the right questions; 2. The sectoral foundations of free market democracy; Part II. The Cases: 3. Neoliberalism and the transformation of rural society in Chile; 4. Social capital, organization, political participation and democratic competition in Chile; 5. The consolidation of free market democracy and Chilean electoral competition, 1988-2000; 6. Markets and democratization in Mexico: rural politics between Corporatism and Neoliberalism; Part III. Conclusions and Implications: 7. Political competitiveness, organized interests, and the democratic market; References; Index.

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• Authors: Marcus J. Kurtz, Marcus J. (Associate Professor Kurtz, Kurtz Marcus J.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.11.2006
• EAN: 9780521534741
• ISBN: 978-0-521-53474-1
• No. of pages: 264
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Chile, Mexico, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Ideologies / Democracy, POLITICAL SCIENCE / World / Caribbean & Latin American, Political structures: democracy, Political Economy, Political structures / systems: democracy