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Author : Denise Dresser
Publisher : University of California, San Diego, Center for U.S.-Mexicanstudies
Page : 62 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Human services
ISBN : UCSD:31822017499153
Author : Denise Dresser
Publisher : University of California, San Diego, Center for U.S.-Mexicanstudies
Page : 58 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173001019009
Author : Carol L. Graham
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2010-12-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 0815719892
Countries worldwide are attempting difficult transitions from state-planned to market economies. Most of these countries have fragile democratic regimes that are threatened by the high social and political costs of reform. Governments—and ultimately societies—have to make hard choices about allocating scarce public resources as they undergo these transitions. A central, often controversial, and most poignant question is how to protect vulnerable groups and the poor. What compensation, what "safety net" will be provided for them? Carol Graham argues that safety nets can provide an environment in which economic reform is more politically sustainable and poverty can be permanently reduced. However, these two objectives frequently involve trade-offs, as vocal and organized opponents of reform (for obvious political reasons) often concern governments far more than the poor. These organized and less vulnerable groups tend to place heavy demands on the scarce resources available to governments at times of economic crisis. Governments that fail to address the social costs of reform, meanwhile, often face popular opposition that jeopardizes or even derails the entire market transition--the results of the September 1993 elections in Poland are a case in point. The author examines these trade-offs in detail, with a particular focus on how political and institutional contexts affect the kinds of safety nets that are implemented. For example, reaching the poor and vulnerable with safety nets tends to be more difficult in closed-party systems, such as in Senegal, where entrenched interest groups have a monopoly on state benefits. In contrast, dramatic political change or rapid implementation of economic reform undermines the influence of such groups and therefore can provide unique political opportunities to redirect resources to the poor, as in the case of Bolivia and Zambia. Rather than focus their efforts on organized interest groups--such as public sector unions--which have a great deal to lose in the process of reform, governments might better concentrate their efforts on poor groups that have rarely, if ever, received benefits from the state. The poor, meanwhile, may gain a new stake in the ongoing process of economic and public sector reform through organizing to solicit the state for safety net benefits. This is the first book to provide a detailed and comparative analysis of compensation during economic reform. Graham offers specific examples of resource allocation in three regions: Latin America, Africa, and Eastern Europe. She features case studies from Chile, Bolivia, Peru, Senegal, Zambia, and Poland.
Author : Gerardo Otero
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429973048
Having unilaterally opened its borders to international competition and foreign investment in the mid-1980s, Mexico has become one of the world's leading proponents of economic liberalization. Nevertheless, as the recent uprising of native peoples in Chiapas has made clear, economic reforms are not universally welcomed. This book addresses the challenges brought about by the restructuring of the Mexican economy at a time when-multiple organizations of civil society are demanding a democratic political transition in a system that has been dominated by one party for nearly seventy years. The contributors identify the key social and political actors—both domestic and international—involved in promoting or resisting the new economic model and examine the role of the state in the restructuring process. They explore such questions as: In what ways is the state itself being reconstituted to accommodate the demand for change? How have Canada and the United States responded to the increased internationalization of their economies? What are the challenges and prospects for transnational grassroots networks and labor solidarity? Answers are provided by scholars from anthropology, economics, history, political science, and sociology, all of whom promote interdisciplinary approaches to the issues. Each chapter traces the structural transformations within the central social relationships in Mexican society during the last decade or so and anticipates future consequences of today's changes.
Author : Enrique C. Ochoa, author of Feeding Mexico and co-editor of Latino Los Angeles
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2001-09-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780742579828
Winner of the 1998 Michael C. Meyer Manuscript Prize! Feeding Mexico: The Political Uses of Food since 1910 traces the Mexican government's intervention in the regulation, production, and distribution of food from the days of Cardenas to the recent privatization inspired by NAFTA. Professor Ochoa argues that the real goals of the government's food subsidies were political, driven by presidential desires to court urban labor. Many of the agencies and policies were hastily set in place in response to short-term political or economic crises. Since the goals were not to alleviate poverty, but to provide modest subsidies to urban consumers, the policies did not eliminate destitution or malnutrition in the country. Despite the minimal achievements of these interventionist policies, the State Food Agency provided a symbol of the state's concern for the workers. The elimination of the Agency in the 1990s prompted social protest and unrest. Feeding Mexico is the first study to examine the creation of networks to deliver food products, the relationship of these channels of distribution to the food crisis, and the role of the state in trying to ameliorate the problem. Based on exhaustive research of new archival material and richly documented with statistical tables, this book exposes the dynamics and outcome of social policy in twentieth-century Mexico.
Author : Jolle Demmers,Alex E. Fernández Jilberto,Barbara Hogenboom
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 340 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2004-08-02
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781134296491
Chapter 1 Good Governance and democracy in a world of neoliberal regimes -- chapter 2 The political economy of neoliberal governance in Latin America -- chapter 3 Que se vayan todos -- chapter 4 Governing Mexico's market democracy -- chapter 5 Triple transition and governance in El Salvador -- chapter 6 Playing Russian roulette -- chapter 7 Good governance can make bad government -- chapter 8 Clanism and predatory capitalism -- chapter 9 Between globalisation and sub-national politics -- chapter 10 Bad governance under democratic rule in Taiwan -- chapter 11 The political economy of recovery in Indonesia -- chapter 12 China's transition to industrial capitalism -- chapter 13 From new order to new world order -- chapter 14 Good governance, privatisation and ethno-regional conflict in Cameroon -- chapter 15 Global neoliberalisation and violent conflict.
Author : John Gledhill
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2019-04-11
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780429720666
Carlos Salinas's government drew praise from many academic commentators and foreign governments for its boldness in embarking on neoliberal economic reforms that tackled some of the shibboleths of the Mexican revolutionary tradition and for its supposedly astute political management of change. This book offers a more critical understanding of the e
Author : Miguel Angel Centeno
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2010-11-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780271045825
Author : Arvidsson Matilda Arvidsson
Publisher : Edinburgh University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2020-08-18
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781474455008
With a strong focus on constitutional law, this book examines the legal as well as the political power of 'the people' in constitutional democracies. Bringing together an international range of contributors from the USA, Latin America, the UK and continental Europe, it explores the complex relationship between constitutional democracy and 'the people' from the angles of constitutional law, legal theory, political theory, and history. Contributors explore this relationship through the lens of radical democracy, engaging with the work of key figures such as Hannah Arendt, Carl Schmitt, Claude Lefort, and Jacques Ranciere.
Author : Rob Aitken,Nikki Craske,David E. Stansfield
Publisher : Springer
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 2016-07-27
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781349244478
In assessing Carlos Salinas' socio-economic reforms the authors question the extent to which the Mexican state has been radically transformed, and possibly dismantled. The authors show that the changes which have occurred are uneven, limited and reversible. Despite the aura of reform it is the degree of continuity which is the most noticeable feature. In many respects the Mexican State remains highly authoritarian.
Author : Jorge I. Domínguez
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2001-12-07
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781135708610
First Published in 2002. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
Author : Kate Nash
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 640 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2017-03-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781351964302
The first volume of the series covers the key themes of political sociology as these have emerged in the course of the (sub-)discipline's development: state formation; legitimation; power; regulation, and inequality. The widening of the focus of political sociology from the nation-state and from models of power based on agents' wills and explicit agendas is reflected in the selection. The volume includes both 'standard' and highly-influential contributions - such as Elias on violence, Habermas on legitimation crisis or Lukes on power - and works that are perhaps less well known, but which represent a representative cross-section of themes and debates in the area. The historical formation of the state and its shifting spatial reach are covered in the first and final sections respectively. In between, both substantial issues - e.g. the changing nature of social policy and welfare regimes - and a wide range of theoretical and conceptual issues - are discussed by leading representative of the vying positions within the field.
Author : Delia M. Boylan
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2001-07-31
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0472112147
DIVA substantive focus on transitions to democracy combined with an analytical approach rooted in the political economy of institutions /div
Author : Marcelo Giugale,Steven Benjamin Webb
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 308 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2000-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0821347322
The three forces of democratization, decentralization, and development have swept the world over the last decade and redrawn the maps of politics, power, and prosperity. Modern Mexico has been fully engaged in the trio, making it a rich case study. In recent years, enhanced political competition has redistributed decisionmaking across all levels of government, making the government more accountable to the average citizen. It has also given subnational governments a renewed role as economic agents. The taxation, spending, borrowing, and institutions of Mexican states and municipalities are now increasingly under the rigor of market discipline. The combined, closer scrutiny of voters and financiers is creating a new incentive framework for policymakers-a framework where necessary reforms become both inescapable and, more importantly, a perceived source of potential reward. This book is the product of the analytical work of a large number of experts, Mexican and foreign. In the book, the experts document Mexico's decentralization experience; conceptualize its main trends, policies, and options; and bring it into the light of international comparison. They distill critical lessons and challenges that are of relevance for Mexico, for Latin America and, generally, for countries that are embarking on far reaching decentralization efforts. This renders the volume a major contribution to our knowledge and thinking in this area; and a timely one, since decentralization is an irreversible process that is likely to continue occupying policymakers for years to come.
Author : Kenneth Edward Mitchell
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2017-07-12
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781351751858
This title was first published in 2001. This detailed empirical study illustrates the different sources of political and economic pressure that combine to produce a process of incremental innovation in Mexican state-society relations. Invaluable to political economists who have a specific focus on Latin America, Mexican politics and public sector reform.