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Prospects for Democratisation in a Post-Revolutionary Setting: Central America*
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Prospects for democratisation in those Central American countries that experienced revolutionary processes are discussed in the light of recurrent structural constraints such as incipient structural differentiation, overwhelming poverty, dependence on foreign financial subsidies as discussed by the authors.Abstract:
Prospects for democratisation in those Central American countries that experienced revolutionary processes are discussed in the light of recurrent structural constraints – such as incipient structural differentiation, overwhelming poverty, dependence on foreign financial subsidies – and specific sociopolitical variations, i.e. uneven modernisation of traditional rule; tensions between the recent mobilisation of both ‘old’ and ‘new’ social actors, and political institutions and actors (such as parties, unions, parliaments, government and multilateral agencies) which in some cases lead to current social demobilisation and electoral apathy and in others prevent the effective uprooting of political violence; persistence of traditional authoritarian culture and its articulation to the new ingredients of the post-war political and socioeconomic setting.read more
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At War's End: Building Peace after Civil Conflict
TL;DR: A more sensible approach to post-conflict peacebuilding would seek, first, to establish a system of domestic institutions that are capable of managing the destabilizing effects of democratization and marketization within peaceful bounds and only then phase in political and economic reforms slowly, as conditions warrant as mentioned in this paper.
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Peacebuilding and the Limits of Liberal Internationalism
TL;DR: In the post-cold war era, the problem of determining what to do once the fighting stops has been a topic of considerable debate among policymakers and students of conflict management as mentioned in this paper.
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Bowling in the bronx: The uncivil interstices between civil and political society
TL;DR: This article argued that the greatest threat to civil society may come not from intrusive statism nor from unthinking tradition, but from the "insecurity, rootlessness, arbitrariness, and perhaps even the social cannibalism" that have come to be associated with many post-transition liberalized societies.
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The Private Sector and Peace in El Salvador, Guatemala, and Colombia*
TL;DR: This article pointed out the need to fine-tune our understanding of private sector behaviour in the context of armed conflict and peace and highlighted how private sector characteristics and business-state relations affect the emergence of peace negotiations and shape resultant outcomes.
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Agricultural Property Rights and Political Change in Nicaragua
TL;DR: This paper focused on Nicaragua's transition from a revolutionary state to one oriented toward democracy and the market, through the political lens of agricultural property rights and found that the national agenda on property rights after 1990 was dominated by elaborate arrangements to accommodate kinship-based factions of the agroindustrial elite, core Sandinista constituents, rural labor groups, and demobilized peasant combatants.
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Economic Development with Unlimited Supplies of Labour
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a different framework for solving problems of distribution accumulation and growth first in a closed and then in an open economy, where the assumption of an unlimited labor supply is used.
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Democracy and the Market: Political and Economic Reforms in Eastern Europe and Latin America
TL;DR: The authors analyzes recent transitions to democracy and market-oriented economic reforms in Eastern Europe and Latin America, drawing in a quite distinctive way on models derived from political philosophy, economics, and game theory.
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Democracy and the “Washington consensus”
TL;DR: The authors argued that there is a substantial body of economic advice, roughly summarized in the "Washington consensus," that deserves to be endorsed across the political spectrum, but such endorsement would still leave a series of major economic issues, most notably the tradeoff between efficiency and equity, to be determined by the outcome of the political process.
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Everyday Forms of State Formation: Revolution and the Negotiation of Rule in Modern Mexico
Gilbert M. Joseph,Daniel Nugent +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, Alonso et al. present the first book to systematically examine the relationship between popular cultures and state formation in revolutionary and post-revolutionary Mexico, focusing on the role of peasants and peasant rebellions in Mexico's past.
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The Renaissance of Political Culture
TL;DR: The publics of different societies are characterized by durable cultural orientations that have major political and economic consequences as mentioned in this paper, and those societies that rank high on this syndrome are much likelier to be stable democracies than those that rank low. But in those countries that attained high levels of prosperity, there eventually emerged postmaterialist values that tended to neutralize the emphasis on economic accumulation that earlier characterized Protestant societies.