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- The Inclusionary Turn in Latin American Democracies
- The Inclusionary Turn in Latin American Democracies
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue: Reflections on Two Episodes of Popular Inclusion
- 1 Inequality, Democracy, and the Inclusionary Turn in Latin America
- Part I Extending Social Policy and Participation
- Part II Inclusion and Partisan Representation
- Part III New Party–Society Linkages
- Part IV Inclusion, Populism, and Democracy
- 12 Pathways to Inclusion in Latin America
- 13 Inclusionary Turn, Rentier Populism, and Emerging Legacies
- 14 Strong Citizens, Strong Presidents
- 15 Shaping the People
- 16 The Inclusionary Turn and Its Political Limitations
- References
16 - The Inclusionary Turn and Its Political Limitations
from Part IV - Inclusion, Populism, and Democracy
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 12 January 2021
- The Inclusionary Turn in Latin American Democracies
- The Inclusionary Turn in Latin American Democracies
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Figures
- Tables
- Contributors
- Acknowledgments
- Prologue: Reflections on Two Episodes of Popular Inclusion
- 1 Inequality, Democracy, and the Inclusionary Turn in Latin America
- Part I Extending Social Policy and Participation
- Part II Inclusion and Partisan Representation
- Part III New Party–Society Linkages
- Part IV Inclusion, Populism, and Democracy
- 12 Pathways to Inclusion in Latin America
- 13 Inclusionary Turn, Rentier Populism, and Emerging Legacies
- 14 Strong Citizens, Strong Presidents
- 15 Shaping the People
- 16 The Inclusionary Turn and Its Political Limitations
- References
Summary
Although Latin America’s inclusionary turn produced tangible benefits for lower-income citizens, these benefits remained partial and politically contingent. The new inclusion extended recognition, access, and resources to social sectors left behind or excluded from the historical process of labor incorporation, but it was noted more for its breadth than its depth, for pluralist as opposed to corporatist modes of interest representation, and for organizational diffuseness rather than density. These traits help explain why the new inclusionary turn was associated with an “easy stage” of redistributive politics in which politically innocuous, low-cost cash transfers could be made to large numbers of weakly or non-organized popular constituencies. They also help explain why the region struggled to advance toward a “higher stage” of redistributive politics requiring more expensive and politically contentious investments in public services and institutional reforms
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- The Inclusionary Turn in Latin American Democracies , pp. 518 - 538Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021
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