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1744

Sustaining civil society: economic change, democracy, and the social construction of citizenship in Latin America

Oxhorn, Philip,
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ISBN 978-0-271-04895-6
Verfasser Oxhorn, Philip Wikipedia
Systematik EP - Entwicklungspolitik
Schlagworte citizenship, latin america, democratization, civil society, bolivia, chile, mexico, democracy, social policy, 2000-, 1980-, economic aspects, politics and government, economic change, 2006-, 1988-
Verlag Pennsylvaniy State University Press
Ort Pennsylvania
Umfang 282 p.
Altersbeschränkung keine
Sprache englisch
Verfasserangabe Philip Oxhorn
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"South America is not the poorest continent in the world, but it may very well be the most unjust." This statement by then Chilean President Ricardo Lagos at the Summit of the Americas in January 2004 captures nicely the dilemma that faces Latin American countries in the wake of the transition to democracy that swept across the continent in the last two decades, of the twentieth century. While political rights are now available to citizens at unprecedented levels, social and economic rights lag far behind, and the fledgling democracies struggle with the long legacies of poverty, inequality, and corruption. Key to understanding what is happening in Latin America today is the relationship between the state and civil society. In this ambitious book Philip Oxhorn sets forth a theory of civil society adequate for explaining current developments in a way that such controversial neoconservative theories as Francis Fukuyama's liberal triumphalism or Samuel Huntington's "clash of civilizations" cannot. Inspired by the rich political sociology of an earlier era and the classic work of T. H. Marshall on citizenship, Oxhorn studies the process by which social groups are incorporated, or not, into national socioeconomic and political development through anapproach that focuses on the "social construction of citizenship."


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List of Figures and Tablesp. vii
Acknowledgmentsp. ix
List of Abbreviationsp. xi
1Civil Society and the Social Construction of Citizenshipp. 1
2Controlled Inclusion and the Elusive Goal of Citizenship as Agencyp. 29
3Dictatorship or Democracy: The Rise of Neopluralism and Citizenship as Consumptionp. 51
4Testing the Limits of Citizenship: Chiles Democratic Transitionp. 91
5The Failure of Citizenship: Bolivia's Popular Participation Lawp. 138
6The Promise of Citizenship: Civil Society and Mexico's Transition to Democracyp. 186
7Latin America's Democratic Crossroads: The Challenge of Making Civil Society Relevantp. 230
Notesp. 239
Referencesp. 251
Indexp. 273
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