The New Politics of Inequality in Latin America : Rethinking Participation and Representation Hardback

Edited by Douglas A. (Professor of Political Science, Professor of Political Science, Columbia Unive Chalmers, Carlos M. (Research Professor, Research Professor, Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico) Vilas, Katherine (Acting Director of the Institute of Latin American and Iberian Studies, Acting Dire Hite, Scott B. (, Columbia University) Martin, Kerianne (, Columbia University) Piester, Monique (, Columbia University) Segarra

Part of the Oxford Studies in Democratization series

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Against a broader backdrop of globalization and worldwide moves toward political democracy, The New Politics of Inequality in Latin America examines the unfolding relationships among social change, equity, and the democratic representation of the poor in Latin America.

Recent Latin American governments have turned away from redistributive policies; at the same time, popular political and social organizations have been generally weakened, inequality has increased, and the gap between rich and poor has grown.

Hanging in the balance is the consolidation and the quality of new or would-be democracies; this volume suggests that governments must find not just short-term programmes to alleviate poverty, but long-term means to ensure the effective integration of the poor into political life.

The New Politics of Inequality in Latin America bridges the intellectual chasm between, on the one hand, studies of grassroots politics, and on the other, explorations of elite politics and formal institution-building.

It will be of interest to students and scholars of contemporary Latin American politics and society and, more generally, in the vicissitudes of democracy and citizenship in the late twentieth-century global system.