Overview
- Examines the troubled relationship between movements and the state, regardless of whether the latter’s agenda is progressive or not
- Draws from a variety of national experiences and a variety of different types of social movements in the region
- Constitutes a thematic text that explains how a two-track approach, bottom up and top down, has shaped the social transformation of Latin America
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This book combines a bottom-up and top-down approach to the study of social movements in relationship to the development of constituent and constituted power in Latin America. The contributors to this volume argue that the radical transformation of liberal representative democracy into participative democracy is what colours these processes as revolutionary. The core themes include popular sovereignty, constituted power, constituent power, participatory democracy, free trade agreements, social citizenship, as well as redistribution and recognition issues. Unlike other collections, which provide broad coverage of social movements at the expense of depth, this book is of thematic focus and illuminates the relationships between rulers and ruled as they transform liberal democracy.
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Keywords
- Popular Sovereignty
- Constituent Power
- Latin America
- Latin American Politics
- Latin American Democracy
- Democracy
- National-Popular alternative
- Social Transformation
- Democratization
- Andean nations
- Dictatorship
- Bolivia
- Argentina
- Participative Democracy
- Social Citizenship
- Dominican Republic
- March Mundial das Mulheres
- Brazil
- Regional Integration
- Popular Reminism
Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Back Matter
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Emelio Betances holds a Ph.D. in Sociology (1989) from Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, USA, and teaches Sociology at Gettysburg College, USA. His publications include State and Society in the Dominican Republic (1995), The Catholic Church and Power Politics in Latin America: The Dominican Case in Comparative Perspectives (2007), and En busca de la ciudadanía: los movimientos sociales y la democratización en la República Dominicana (2016).
Carlos Figueroa Ibarra received his Ph.D. in Sociology and teaches at the graduate program of the Institute of Social Sciences at the Benemérita Universidad Autonoma de Puebla, Mexico. His works include El Proletariado rural en el agro guatemalteco (1980), El recurso del miedo. Ensayo sobre Estado y terror en Guatemala (1980), Paz Tejada: militar y revolucionario (2001), and En el umbral del posneoliberalismo? Izquierda y gobierno en América Latina (2010).
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Popular Sovereignty and Constituent Power in Latin America
Book Subtitle: Democracy from Below
Editors: Emelio Betances, Carlos Figueroa Ibarra
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-54825-2
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-54824-5Published: 24 November 2016
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-54825-2Published: 24 November 2016
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIII, 208
Topics: Democracy, Political History, Public Policy, Electoral Politics, Regionalism