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Free Market Democracy and the Chilean and Mexican Countryside
Marcus J. Kurtz
出版Cambridge University Press, 2004-04-05
主題Political Science / GeneralPolitical Science / Political Process / GeneralPolitical Science / Public Policy / Economic Policy
ISBN11394518049781139451802
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=x0MqFAqsoj0C&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋This book examines the relationship between free markets and democracy. It demonstrates how the implementation of even very painful free-market economic reforms in Chile and Mexico have helped to consolidate democratic politics without engendering a backlash against either reform or democratization. This national-level compatibility between free markets and democracy, however, is founded on their rural incompatibility. In the countryside, free-market reforms socially isolate peasants to such a degree that they become unable to organize independently, and are vulnerable to the pressures of local economic elites. This helps to create an electoral coalition behind free-market reforms that is critically based in some of the market's biggest victims: the peasantry. The book concludes that the comparatively stable free-market democracy in Latin America hinges critically on its defects in the countryside; conservative, free-market elites may consent to open politics only if they have a rural electoral redoubt.