Oligarchy in the Americas: Comparing Oligarchic Rule in Latin America and the United States

ISBN-13: 9783030631451 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 126 str.

Joe Foweraker

Recenzje

"Oligarchy in the Americas provides some of the pieces necessary for making these distinctions and accomplishes this while also drawing enlightening conclusions with a unique comparison between Argentina and the US. Whether and how political exclusion works has been and will continue to be the source of great contention. Case studies like this make a good read and track the path dependent elements of the exclusions to come." (Louis E. Esparza, Fulbright Chronicles, Vol. 1 (4), 2023)

Spis treści

Part I: Modes of Oligarchic Rule in Latin America 

Chapter 1. Oligarchic Rule in the Americas, South to North

• The Terms of the Comparison
• The Argument

Chapter 2. Oligarchy and the Patrimonial State

• Conceptualizing Oligarchic Rule
• Democratic Theory and Oligarchic Rule
• The Popular Response

Chapter 3. Modes of Oligarchic Rule in Latin America

• The Historical Context
• The Democratization of Oligarchic Rule
• Continuity and Change in Oligarchic Rule
• The Neoliberal Mode of Oligarchic Rule
• The Nature of Latin American Democracy

Part II: Modes of Oligarchic Rule in the United States 

Chapter 4. First Mode - The Federal Patrimonial State

• The Founding of the Oligarchic Republic
• Party-State Patrimonialism

Chapter 5. Second Mode - Oligarchic Alliance and Party Politics

• The South and the Alliance
• The Federal State and the Collapse of the Alliance

Chapter 6. Third Mode - Oligarchy Transformed, the Republic Reduced

• The Changing Character of the Oligarchy
• The Private Command of Public Policy

Part III: Comparing Oligarchic Rule, South and North

Chapter 7. Polity in the Americas

• Comparing Polities, South and North
• Comparing Oligarchic Rule, South and North

O autorze

Joe Foweraker is Emeritus Fellow at St. Antony's College at the University of Oxford, and Honorary Professor at the University of Exeter, UK. He is the former Professor of Latin American Politics and Head of the School of Interdisciplinary Areas Studies at the University of Oxford, and author of Polity: Demystifying Democracy in Latin America and Beyond (2018).

Blurb

This book explores the continuity of oligarchic rule in the Americas of the modern period, with a focus on the variable compatibility of oligarchic rule and democratic government. This focus sets the terms for a comparative inquiry that creates a novel perspective on the politics of Latin America and the United States alike. The continuity depends on the formation of a patrimonial State and a porous division between oligarchic interests and the public sphere of democratic politics; but it also depends on a capacity to adapt and change, and these changes are marked by successive and distinctive modes of rule in both Latin America and the United States. The book concludes with a description and comparison of the sequences and political characteristics of these modes of rule and discovers a recent and remarkable convergence of oligarchic rule in the Americas.

Joe Foweraker is Emeritus Fellow at St. Antony’s College at the University of Oxford, and Honorary Professor at the University of Exeter, UK.