Reorganizing Popular Politics : Participation and the New Interest Regime in Latin America / edited by Ruth Berins Collier, Samuel Handlin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Collier, Ruth Berins, contributor, contributor.

Collier, Ruth Berins, editor.

Dunning, Thad, 1973- contributor, contributor.

Garay, Candelaria, contributor, contributor.

Handlin, Samuel, contributor, contributor.

Handlin, Samuel, editor.

Kapiszewski, Diana, contributor, contributor.

Seawright, Jason, contributor, contributor.

De Gruyter.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

French literature--To 1500--History and criticism.

French literature.

Healing in literature.

Love in literature.

Magic in literature.

Romances--History and criticism.

Romances.

Women healers in literature.

Genre:

Dictionaries.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (408 pages)

Contained In:

De Gruyter University Press Library.

Place of Publication:

University Park, PA : Penn State University Press, [2021]

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

text file PDF

Summary:

A historic shift has occurred in the organizational structures through which the lower classes in Latin America express voice and find political representation. With the political and economic reforms of the 1980s and 1990s, networks of community-based associations and nongovernmental organizations replaced party-affiliated labor unions as the predominant organizations to which the lower classes turned. This volume examines the new "interest regime" in Argentina, Chile, Peru, and Venezuela through two extensive surveys-one of individuals and one of associations-undertaken in those nations' capital cities. Contrary to common perceptions, the new interest regime is neither a vibrant, autonomous civil society nor a set of weak, atomized organizations. Participation in associations is generally high, compared to "direct action" as a strategy for pursuing collective interests, and associations more frequently coordinate and engage the state than has sometimes been assumed. However, various forms of interaction with the state pose a classic trade-off between representation and state control, and the new interest regime is marked by representational distortion, in that the lower classes are less likely to use the new structures than the middle classes. Within these general patterns, distinct national models are emerging. This volume represents the most ambitious and systematic effort to date to examine individual participation and associational life in Latin America and to carry out a cross-national analysis of new forms of political representation.

Contents:

Frontmatter

CONTENTS

Acknowledgments

PART I: INTEREST POLITICS AND THE POPULAR SECTORS

1 Introduction: Popular Representation in the Interest Arena

2 Situating the Analysis: Analytic Approach, Cases, and Historical Context

3 Logics of Collective Action, State Linkages, and Aggregate Traits: The UP-Hub Versus the A-Net

PART II: INDIVIDUAL PARTICIPATION IN THE INTEREST ARENA

4 Direct Action and Associational Participation: Problem-Solving Repertoires of Individuals

5 Political Participation and Representational Distortion: The Nexus Between Associationalism and Partisan Politics

PART III: THE POPULAR-SECTOR INTEREST REGIME

6 Targeting State and Society: Strategic Repertoires of Associations

7 Three Forms of Scaling: Embeddedness, Nodal NGOs, and Flexible Fronts

8 Associational Linkages to Labor Unions and Political Parties

PART IV: CONCLUSION

9 General Patterns and Emergent Differences

Appendix A: Selection of Focus Districts

Appendix B: Survey of Associations

Appendix C: Survey of Individuals

List of Contributors

References

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 26. Mai 2021)

ISBN:

9780271058924

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.