Low-intensity democracy revisited the effects of economic liberalization on political activity in Latin America

Existing literature emphasizes the disorganizing or weakening effects of economic liberalization on civil society, whereby free-market policies are said to demobilize and depoliticize collective actors. the article evaluates the effects of economic liberalization on large-scale societal mobilization...

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1. Verfasser: Arce, Moisés E. (VerfasserIn)
Weitere Verfasser: Bellinger, Paul T. (BerichterstatterIn)
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Sprache:eng
Veröffentlicht: 2007
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Wirtschaftsreform > Wirtschaftsliberalismus > Demokratisierung > Partizipation > Lateinamerika > Liberalisierung > Deregulierung > Wirkung > Auswirkung > Politische Beteiligung > Kritik > Aufsatz in Zeitschrift
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Zusammenfassung:Existing literature emphasizes the disorganizing or weakening effects of economic liberalization on civil society, whereby free-market policies are said to demobilize and depoliticize collective actors. the article evaluates the effects of economic liberalization on large-scale societal mobilizations across seventeen latin american countries for the period 1970-2000. the article further tests the effects of economic liberalization on individual political participation across sixteen latin american countries for the period 1980-2000. in contrast to the atomization literature, this article provides strong evidence that economic liberalization leads to greater levels of societal mobilization in the context of free-market democratization. the article also demonstrates that economic liberalization does not induce a decline in political participation. collectively, these results cast doubt on the theoretical underpinnings and empirical findings presented in Kurtz (2004). (World Politics / SWP)
ISSN:0043-8871