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10 - After Corporatism

Party Linkages with Popular Sector Organizations in Neoliberal Latin America

from Part III - New Party–Society Linkages

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 January 2021

By
Brian Palmer-Rubin
Edited by
Diana Kapiszewski ,
Steven Levitsky  and
Deborah J. Yashar
Diana Kapiszewski
Affiliation:
Georgetown University, Washington DC
Steven Levitsky
Affiliation:
Harvard University, Massachusetts
Deborah J. Yashar
Affiliation:
Princeton University, New Jersey
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Summary

What role do popular sector associations play in party building in contemporary Latin America? While corporatist ties to hierarchically organized labor and peasant associations have diminished, a bevy of “dissident” popular sector organizations have emerged, such as neighborhood associations, indigenous movements, and informal sector associations. These organizations have played contrasting roles in party building for new left-wing parties such as Brazil’s PT, Bolivia’s MAS, Mexico’s PRD, Uruguay’s FA, and Venezuela’s AD, varying from durable and programmatic neo-corporatism to contingent patronage ties. Based on these cases, this chapter inductively identifies founding party traits that shape linkage type. Parties that established formal rules for incorporating organizational allies in party leadership and included a major segment of the labor movement in their founding coalition were most successful at institutionalizing spaces for allied organizations’ programmatic influence. This argument is tested through a subnational analysis of Mexican state governments under the PRD.

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The Inclusionary Turn in Latin American Democracies , pp. 327 - 361
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2021

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