State and society in conflict : comparative perspectives on Andean crises / edited by Paul W. Drake and Eric Hershberg ; contributors, Jeremy Adelman [et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Drake, Paul W., 1944- editor.

Hershberg, Eric, editor.

Adelman, Jeremy, contributor.

Series:

Pitt Latin American series.

Pitt Latin American Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Social conflict--Andes Region.

Social conflict.

Andes Region--Politics and government.

Andes Region.

Andes Region--Economic conditions.

Andes Region--Social conditions.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (336 pages) : illustrations.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh : University of Pittsburgh Press, 2006.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Annotation State and Society in Conflictanalyzes one of the most volatile regions in Latin America, the Andean states of Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia. For the last twenty-five years, crises in these five Andean countries have endangered Latin America's democracies and strained their relations with the United States. As these nations struggle to cope with demands from Washington on security policies (emphasizing drugs and terrorism), neoliberal economics, and democratic politics, their resulting domestic travails can be seen in poor economic growth, unequal wealth distribution, mounting social unrest, and escalating political instability. The contributors to this volume examine the histories, politics, and cultures of the Andean nations, and argue that, due to their shared history and modern circumstances, these countries are suffering a shared crisis of deteriorating relations between state and society that is best understood in regional, not purely national, terms. The results, in some cases, have been semi-authoritarian hybrid regimes that lurch from crisis to crisis, often controlled through force, though clinging to a notion of democracy. The solution to these problems--whether through democratic, authoritarian, peaceful, or violent means--will have profound implications for the region and its future relations with the world.

Contents:

The crisis of state-society relations in the post-1980s Andes / Paul W. Drake and Eric Hershberg

Unfinished states: historical perspectives on the Andes / Jeremy Adelman

A transregional security cartography of the Andes / Ann Mason and Arlene Tickner

The Andean economies: questions of poverty, growth, and equity / John Sheahan

Technocrats, citizens, and second-generation reforms: Colombia's Andean malaise / Eric Hershberg

Turning crisis into opportunity: achievements of excluded groups in the Andes / Donna Lee Van Cott

Ethnic politics and political instability in the Andes / Deborah J. Yashar

Contesting the terrain of politics: state-society relations in urban Peru, 1950-2000 / Jo-Marie Burt

Checks and imbalances: problems with congress in Colombia and Ecuador, 1978-2003 / Francisco Gutiérrez Sanín

Sowing democracy in Venezuela: advances and challenges in a time of change / Miriam Kornblith.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Description based on print version record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780822972990

0822972999

OCLC:

798794585