Dominant Elites in Latin America: From Neo-Liberalism to the 'Pink Tide'

ISBN-13: 9783319851051 / Angielski / Miękka / 2018 / 239 str.

Liisa L. North; Timothy D. Clark

Spis treści

1. Introduction: Reconfiguring Domination: Case Studies from Latin America

Liisa L. North 

2. The Paradox of the Neoliberal Developmentalist State: Reconstructing the Capitalist Elite in Pinochet’s Chile

Timothy D. Clark

3. Quasi-post-neoliberal Brazil: Social Change Amidst Elite Adaptation and Metamorphosis

Simone Bohn

4. Concentration of Assets and Poverty Reduction in Post Neoliberal Ecuador

Carlos M. Larrea and Natalia Greene

5. Rural Colombia: The Architecture of State-sponsored Violence and New Power Configurations

Luis van Isschot

6. The Reconsolidation of Oligarchic Rule in El Salvador:  The Contours of Neoliberal Transformation

Carlos Velásquez Carrillo

7. Land and the Reconfiguration of Power in Post-Conflict Guatemala

Simon Granovsky-Larsen

8. The Limits of Democratization and Social Progress: Domination and Dependence in Latin America

Timothy D. Clark and Liisa L. North

O autorze

Liisa L. North is Professor Emeritus of Political Science at York University, Canada.

Timothy D. Clark is Principal at Willow Springs Strategic Solutions.

Blurb

This volume examines the ways in which the socio-economic elites of the region have transformed and expanded the material bases of their power from the inception of neo-liberal policies in the 1970s through to the so-called progressive ‘pink tide’ governments of the past two decades. The six case study chapters—on Chile, Brazil, Ecuador, Colombia, El Salvador, and Guatemala—variously explore how state policies and even United Nations peace-keeping missions have enhanced elite control of land and agricultural exports, banks and insurance companies, wholesale and import commerce, industrial activities, and alliances with foreign capital. Chapters also pay attention to the ways in which violence has been deployed to maintain elite power, and how international forces feed into sustaining historic and contemporary configurations of power.