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Sustaining Civil Society:

Economic Change, Democracy, and the Social Construction of Citizenship in Latin America
  • ISBN-13: 9780271048949
  • Publisher: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
    Imprint: PENN STATE UNIVERSITY PRESS
  • By Philip Oxhorn
  • Price: AUD $180.00
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  • Local release date: 14/01/2012
  • Format: Hardback 296 pages Weight: 0g
  • Categories: Politics & government [JP]
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Devoting particular emphasis to Bolivia, Chile, and Mexico, proposes a theory of civil society to explain the economic and political challenges for continuing democratization in Latin America.


Contents

List of Figures

List of Tables

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

1 Civil Society and the Social Construction of Citizenship

2 Controlled Inclusion and the Elusive Goal of Citizenship as Agency

3 Dictatorship or Democracy: The Rise of Neopluralism and Citizenship as Consumption

4 Testing the Limits of Citizenship: Chile’s Democratic Transition

5 The Failure of Citizenship: Bolivia’s Popular Participation Law

6 The Promise of Citizenship: Civil Society and Mexico’s Transition to Democracy

7 Latin America’s Democratic Crossroads: The Challenge of Making Civil Society Relevant

Notes

References

Index


“Sustaining Civil Society confirms Philip Oxhorn’s intellectual leadership in the field of citizenship and civil society studies. This book probes the construction of citizenship at the intersection of complex economic, sociocultural, and political transformations in societies deeply scarred by egregious inequalities. Oxhorn masterfully weaves together sophisticated theoretical analysis with empirically rich case studies of Bolivia, Chile, and Mexico to establish new benchmarks for research in comparative politics and political sociology.”

—William C. Smith, University of Miami, editor of Latin American Politics and Society

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