State And Society in Conflict

by Drake, Paul W.; Hershberg, Eric

• ISBN13: 9780822959229
• ISBN10: 0822959224
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-06-28
• Publisher: Univ of Pittsburgh Pr

Summary

State and Society in Conflictanalyzes one of the most volatile regions in Latin America, the Andean states of Colombia, Venezuela, Ecuador, Peru, and Bolivia. For the last twenty-five years, crises in these five Andean countries have endangered Latin America's democracies and strained their relations with the United States. As these nations struggle to cope with demands from Washington on security policies (emphasizing drugs and terrorism), neoliberal economics, and democratic politics, their resulting domestic travails can be seen in poor economic growth, unequal wealth distribution, mounting social unrest, and escalating political instability. The contributors to this volume examine the histories, politics, and cultures of the Andean nations, and argue that, due to their shared history and modern circumstances, these countries are suffering a shared crisis of deteriorating relations between state and society that is best understood in regional, not purely national, terms. The results, in some cases, have been semi-authoritarian hybrid regimes that lurch from crisis to crisis, often controlled through force, though clinging to a notion of democracy. The solution to these problems--whether through democratic, authoritarian, peaceful, or violent means--will have profound implications for the region and its future relations with the world.

Author Biography

Paul W. Drake is Distinguished Professor of Political Science and dean of the Division of Social Sciences at University of California, San Diego. A past president of the Latin American Studies Association, he is also is the coeditor of numerous books, including The Origins of Liberty, El APRA, de la ideologfa a la praxis, and The Struggle for Democracy in Chile.
Eric Hershberg is senior advisor of the Social Science Research Council in New York City. He is adjunct professor at Columbia University, School of International and Public Affairs, and has served as chair on the board of directors of the North American Congress on Latin America since 1999. Hershberg is president-elect of the Latin American Studies Association.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	ix
The Crisis of State-Society Relations in the Post--1980s Andes	1	(40)
Paul W. Drake
Eric Hershberg
Unfinished States: Historical Perspectives on the Andes	41	(33)
Jeremy Adelman
A Transregional Security Cartography of the Andes	74	(25)
Ann Mason
Arlene Tickner
The Andean Economies: Questions of Poverty, Growth, and Equity	99	(35)
John Sheahan
Technocrats, Citizens, and Second-Generation Reforms: Colombia's Andean Malaise	134	(23)
Eric Hershberg
Turning Crisis into Opportunity: Achievements of Excluded Groups in the Andes	157	(32)
Donna Lee Van Cott
Ethnic Politics and Political Instability in the Andes	189	(31)
Deborah J. Yashar
Contesting the Terrain of Politics: State-Society Relations in Urban Peru, 1950--2000	220	(37)
Jo-Marie Burt
Checks and Imbalances: Problems with Congress in Colombia and Ecuador, 1978--2003	257	(31)
Francisco Gutierrez Sanin
Sowing Democracy in Venezuela: Advances and Challenges in a Time of Change	288	(27)
Miriam Kornblith
Contributors	315	(2)
Index	317