Reshaping the Political Arena in Latin America: From Resisting Neoliberalism to the Second Incorporation

by Eduardo Silva, Federico Rossi

Overview

Neoliberalism changed the face of Latin America and left average citizens struggling to cope in many ways. Popular sectors were especially hard hit as wages declined and unemployment increased. The backlash to neoliberalism in the form of popular protest and electoral mobilization opened space for leftist governments to emerge. The turn to left governments raised popular expectations for a second wave of incorporation. Although a growing literature has analyzed many aspects of left governments, there is no study of how the redefinition of the organized popular sectors, their allies, and their struggles have reshaped the political arena to include their interests—until now. This volume examines the role played in the second wave of incorporation by political parties, trade unions, and social movements in five cases: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, and Venezuela.  The cases shed new light on a subject critical to understanding the change in the distribution of political power related to popular sectors and their interests—a key issue in the study of postneoliberalism.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780822965121
Publisher:	University of Pittsburgh Press
Publication date:	04/12/2018
Series:	Pitt Latin American Series
Edition description:	1
Pages:	360
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 8.90(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Eduardo Silva is professor and Friezo Family Foundation Chair in Political Science at Tulane University. He is the author or editor of several books, including Transnational Activism and National Movements in Latin America: Bridging the Divide and Challenging Neoliberalism in Latin America.
 
Federico M. Rossi isresearch professor of the Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cientificas y Tecnicas at the Universidad Nacional de San Martin, Argentina. He is the author or editor of several books, including Social Movement Dynamics: New Perspectives on Theory and Research from Latin America and The Poor’s Struggle for Political Incorporation.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments xi

Chapter 1 Introduction: Reshaping the Political Arena in Latin America Federico M. Rossi Eduardo Silva 3

Part I Social Movements

Chapter 2 Introduction to Part I: Social Movements and the Second Wave of (Territorial) Incorporation in Latin America Federico M. Rossi 23

Chapter 3 Social Movements and the Second Incorporation in Bolivia and Ecuador Eduardo Silva 32

Chapter 4 The Incorporation of Popular Sectors and Social Movements in Venezuelan Twenty-First-Century Socialism María Pilar García-Guardilla 60

Chapter 5 Social Movements, the New "Social Question," and the Second Incorporation of the Popular Sectors in Argentina and Brazil Federico M. Rossi 78

Part II Trade Unions

Chapter 6 Introduction to Part II: Labor Unions in Latin America: Incorporation and Reincorporation under the New Left Ruth Berins Collier 115

Chapter 7 Socialism without Workers? Trade Unions and the New Left in Bolivia and Ecuador Jorge León Trujillo Susan Spronk 129

Chapter 8 Conflicting Currents within the Pro-Chávez Labor Movement and the Dynamics of Decision Making Steve Ellner 157

Chapter 9 The Labor Movement and the Erosion of Neoliberal Hegemony: Brazil and Argentina Julián Gindin Adalberto Cardoso 179

Part III Political Parties

Chapter 10 Introduction to Part III: Political Parties in Latin America's Second Wave of Incorporation Kenneth M. Roberts 211

Chapter 11 From Movements to Governments: Comparing Bolivia's MAS and Ecuador's PAIS Catherine Conaghan 222

Chapter 12 The Second Wave of Incorporation and Political Parties in the Venezuelan Petrostate Daniel Hellinger 251

Chapter 13 The Politics of Incorporation: Party Systems. Political Leaders, and the State in Argentina and Brazil Pierre Ostiguy Aaron Schneider 275

Chapter 14 Conclusion: Reflections on the Second Wave of Popular Incorporation for a Post-Neoliberal Era Eduardo Silva 309

Notes 325

References 337

About the Contributors 373

Index 379

Editorial Reviews

This volume offers the most systematic account to date on how political incorporation was approached and carried out during the Latin American region’s turn to the left. Rossi and Silva have done a masterful job at structuring the analysis, while recruiting a dream team of experts to conduct comparisons across time and countries. The breathtaking theoretical and empirical scope of this volume, as well as its careful analysis of the possible legacies of different incorporation regimes, will make it a must-read for scholars interested in ‘big questions’ that engage politics and the political sociology of the region for years to come.” —Juan Pablo Luna, Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Chile

“Reshaping the Political Arena in Latin America represents a landmark addition to this burgeoning line of research, standing out for its analytic rigor, careful attention to concepts, and impressive empirical contributions.” —Comparative Politics
 

“Silva and Rossi deploy the idea of political incorporation as their overarching framework. They take up the baton from Ruth Berins Collier and David Collier’s pioneering work on the populist phase in Latin America from the 1930s to the 1960s (during which popular sectors, specifically organized labor, were brought within the body politic), to argue that the pink tide represents a ‘second wave of incorporation,’ a response to the marginalization of rural and urban popular sectors from spheres of governmental decision-making under neoliberalism.” —Latin American Research Review
 

“Reshaping the Political Arena in Latin America es una obra colectiva que propone una reflexión sistemática y comparada sobre cómo se redefinieron las organizaciones de los sectores populares, cuáles fueron sus aliados políticos y cómo se transformaron sus disputas e intereses en la arena política.” —Iberoamericana
 

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