The Right in Latin America: Elite Power, Hegemony and the Struggle for the State
Autor Barry Cannonen Limba Engleză Paperback – 21 apr 2016
The Right in Latin America seeks to provide answers to these questions while helping to fill a gap in the literature on contemporary Latin American politics. Unlike previous studies, Barry Cannon’s book does not simply concentrate on party political responses to the contemporary challenges for the right in the region. Rather he uses a wider, more comprehensive theoretical framework, grounded in political sociology, in recognition of the deep social roots of the right among Latin America’s elites, in a region known for its startling inequalities. Using Michael Mann’s pioneering work on power, he shows how elite dominance in the key areas of the economy, ideology, the military, and in transnational relations, has had a profound influence on the political strategies of the Latin American right. He shows how left governments, especially the more radical ones, have threatened elite power in these areas, influencing right-wing strategic responses as a result. These responses, he persuasively argues, can vary from elections, through street protests and media campaigns, to military coups, depending on the level of perceived threat felt by elites from the left. In this way, Cannon uncovers the dialectical nature of the left/right relationship in contemporary Latin American politics, while simultaneously providing pointers as to how the left can respond to the challenge of the right’s resurgence in the current context of left retrenchment. Cannon’s multi-faceted inter-disciplinary approach, including original research among right-leaning actors in the region makes the book an essential reference not only for those interested in the contemporary Latin American right but for anyone interested in the region’s politics at a critical juncture in its history.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780415840705
ISBN-10: 0415840708
Pagini: 196
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 0415840708
Pagini: 196
Dimensiuni: 152 x 229 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.27 kg
Ediția:1
Editura: Taylor & Francis
Colecția Routledge
Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom
Cuprins
1. Introduction: The Right in Latin America: Elite Power, Hegemony and the Struggle for the State 2. Understanding the Latin American Right: Powerful Elites and Weak States 3. Right-wing policy discourse in Left-led Latin America 4. Neoliberalism in Power: Right-Oriented State/Society Complexes in Chile, Colombia, Mexico and Peru 5. The Shifting Sands of Power in ‘pink tide’ Latin America: Post-neoliberalism and the Threat from the Left 6. Coups, "smart coups" and elections: Right power strategies under Left-led governments 7. Conclusion: Right Strategies and Left Responses
Notă biografică
Barry Cannon is a Lecturer in Politics at Maynooth University, Ireland. His research is primarily centred on Latin American politics, with particular expertise on Peru, Venezuela and Central America.
Recenzii
'Cannon shines a bright light on the Right, which has continued to adapt and exercise influence outside the gaze of most experts on Latin America. His describes the varied sources—economic, military, transnational, political, and transnational--of elite power in the region in a book that is accessible to the public but will intrigue scholars as well. - Daniel Hellinger, Professor of International Relations, Webster Unversity, USA
'Cannon has provided us with timely analysis and a valuable theoretical framework for understanding contemporary Latin American politics at a time when the Right is resurgent and the region faces renewed crisis and upheaval.' - William I. Robinson, Professor of Sociology, Global Studies, and Latin American Studies, University of California at Santa Barbara
'Cannon has provided us with timely analysis and a valuable theoretical framework for understanding contemporary Latin American politics at a time when the Right is resurgent and the region faces renewed crisis and upheaval.' - William I. Robinson, Professor of Sociology, Global Studies, and Latin American Studies, University of California at Santa Barbara
Descriere
A multi-faceted inter-disciplinary approach and rich empirical data enables Understanding the Latin American Right to provide an important contribution to the debate on the nature, aims and strategies of the contemporary Latin American right. The book first discusses the validity of right/left cleavages within a context of democratization. Second, a political sociological approach is used in field research, which covers Chile, Colombia, Argentina, and Venezuela. Cannon completed extensive interviews with three different populations in these countries: representatives of right-identified civil society organizations, political actors on the right, and academic experts of different ideological stances. Finally, this book concerns itself not just with right attitudes to state/society relations and inequalities at the national level, but how these are interlinked into wider processes of globalization.