Stalled Democracy : Capital, Labor, and the Paradox of State-Sponsored Development / Eva Bellin.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bellin, Eva Rana, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Labor policy--Developing countries.

Labor policy.

Industrial policy--Developing countries.

Industrial policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 239 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, [2018]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

In this ambitious book, Eva Bellin examines the dynamics of democratization in late-developing countries where the process has stalled. Bellin focuses on the pivotal role of social forces and particularly the reluctance of capital and labor to champion democratic transition, contrary to the expectations of political economists versed in earlier transitions. Bellin argues that the special conditions of late development, most notably the political paradoxes created by state sponsorship, fatally limit class commitment to democracy. In many developing countries, she contends, those who are empowered by capitalist industrialization become the allies of authoritarianism rather than the agents of democratic reform.Bellin generates her propositions from close study of a singular case of stalled democracy: Tunisia. Capital and labor's complicity in authoritarian relapse in that country poses a puzzle. The author's explanation of that case is made more general through comparison with the cases of other countries, including Mexico, Indonesia, South Korea, Turkey, and Egypt. Stalled Democracy also explores the transformative capacity of state-sponsored industrialization. By drawing on a range of real-world examples, Bellin illustrates the ability of developing countries to reconfigure state-society relations, redistribute power more evenly in society, and erode the peremptory power of the authoritarian state, even where democracy is stalled.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

CHAPTER I. Genesis of the Private Sector in Tunisia: The Logic of State Sponsorship

CHAPTER 2. The Developmental Paradox: Capital's Emergent Power and Autonomy

CHAPTER 3. A Checkered Alliance: State Sponsorship of Labor

CHAPTER 4. Influence under Constraint: The Trajectory of Labor's Power and Autonomy

CHAPTER 5. Capital and Labor: Agents of Democratization?

CHAPTER 6. Stalled Democracy in Comparative Perspective

Appendix I. Comparative Wage Rates in Forty-one Countries, 1990

Appendix 2. Number of Strikes in Tunisia, 1970-r994

Appendix 3. Organizational Structure of the Union Generale de Travailleurs Tunisiens

Appendix 4. Membership Numbers in the Union Generale de Travailleurs Tunisiens

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-232) and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 20. Sep 2019)

ISBN:

1-5017-2212-3

OCLC:

1080549497