Neoliberalism is often studied as a political ideology, a government program, and even as a pattern of cultural identities. However, less attention is paid to the specific institutional resources employed by neoliberal administrations, which have resulted in the configuration of a neoliberal state model. This accessible volume compiles original essays on the neoliberal era in Latin America and Spain, exploring subjects such as neoliberal public policies, power strategies, institutional resources, popular support, and social protest. The book focuses on neoliberalism as a state model: a configuration of public power designed to implement radical policy proposals. This is the third volume in the State and Nation Making in Latin America and Spain series, which aims to complete and advance research and knowledge about national states in Latin America and Spain.
Author(s): Miguel A. Centeno; Agustin E. Ferraro
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 2023
Language: English
Pages: 563
Cover
State and Nation Making in Latin America and Spain
Dedication
Contents
Notes on Contributors
Preface
Part I. INTRODUCTION
1. The Neoliberal State in Latin America
Part II. ECONOMIC AND TERRITORIAL POWER
2. The Chilean Neoliberal State: Origins, Evolution, and Contestation, 1973–2020
3. State, Society, and the Neoliberal Turn in Mexico, c. 1980–c. 2000
4. Rise of the Neoliberal State in Spain? Fiscal Shortcomings of a Popular Narrative
5. Guatemala: States and Homicidal Ecologies
Part III. INFRASTRUCTURAL POWER: REFORM STRATEGIES
6. Two Roads of Neoliberal Reform in Higher Education: Past Policy Decisions Establishing Today’s Type of Reforms in Peru and Chile
7. Reinvented Governments in Latin America: Reform Waves and Diverging Outcomes
8. The Devil Hides in the Details: Variations of Conditional Cash Transfers Programs in Latin America
9. Neoliberal Reform of Transport Institutions in Brazil, Argentina, and Chile: The Tortoise Beats the Hare
10. The End Game of Social Policy in a Context of Enduring Inequalities: Assessing “Post-neoliberalism” in Latin America
Part IV. SYMBOLIC POWER: IDENTITIES AND SOCIAL PROTEST
11. Women Are the Social Face of the State: Gender and the Social Uprising in Neoliberal Chile, 2019–2021
12. Europeanization Effects: Statehood and Contentious Politics
13. Redefining Labor Organizing: Coalitions between Labor Unions and Social Movements of Outsider Workers
14. Locating Neoliberalism in Abiayala: A View from Indigenous Studies
15. Resisting Neoliberalism? Territorial Autonomy Movements in the Iberian World
Part V. Conclusions
16. Internal Structure of the Neoliberal State: Power and Public Policy in Latin America and Spain, 1973–2020
Index
