Tuesday, August 20, 2013

Levitsky and Murillo 2005a


"Introduction" Steven Levitsky and María Victoria Murillo, p. 1-17

in Levitsky, Steven, and Maria Victoria Murillo. 2005. Argentine democracy: the politics of institutional weakness. University Park, Pa: Pennsylvania State University Press.

  • Federalism and the Link between Subnational and National Politics
    • subnational politics are crucial to understanding national-level politics and policymaking in Argentina (9)
    • provincial governors have been able to gather enormous power under democratic rule
  • The Transformation of State-Society Relations in the Postcorporatist era
    • labor protest has been increasingly confined to provincial public sector employees (Farinetti 2002) (12)
    • blockade as a new form of protest
    • the participants in provincial riots and urban looting are frequently embedded in (and mobilized by) the very clientelistic networks that they are said to replace (13)
      • much of the urban poor was incorporated into clientelistic networks during the 1990s
    • postcorporatist scenario reveals a trend away from national-level collective bargaining organizations and national definied class identities
      • localized, territorial identities are becoming more salient
      • most new social actors are resisting close ties to the state
      • authors mention the middle class, CTA, and piqueteros....but some of the piqueteros have drawn closer to the state in recent years

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