Business Politics and the State in Twentieth-Century Latin America

ISBN-13: 9780521836517 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 336 str.

Ben Ross Schneider

Opis

Ben Schneider's comparative historical analysis of the incorporation of business into politics in Latin America examines business organization and political activity over the last century in five of the largest and most developed countries of the region. Schneider's explanation for why business became better organized in Chile, Colombia, and Mexico than in Argentina and Brazil, lies neither in economic characteristics of business nor broader political parameters, but rather in the cumulative effect of state policy actions.

Recenzje

"Schneider's book displays meticulous research and an excellent command of both theory and data. It represents the first serious effort to compare business associations' behavior across very diverse countries in a systematic and theoretically sound fashion. The main thesis is straight-foward, well argued, and consistently supported throughout. The book's breadth and scope make it a majorly scholarly accomplishment that any future work on the subject will need to confront." - Luigi Manzetti, Southern Methodist University

Spis treści

Part I. Introduction and Arguments: 1. Patterns of business politics in Latin America; 2. States and collective action; Part I. Cases and Comparisons: 3. From state to societal corporatism in Mexico; 4. From corporatism to reorganized disarticulation in Brazil; 5. Business in Columbia: well organized and well connected; 6. Consultation and contention in the making of cooperative capitalism in Chile; 7. Business associations in Argentina: fragmented and politicized; Part III. Conclusions and Implications: 8. Economic governance and varieties of capitalism; 9. Democracy and varieties of civil society; Appendices.