This book explores the continuity of oligarchic rule in the Americas of the modern period, with a focus on the variable compatibility of oligarchic rule and democratic government. This focus sets the terms for a comparative inquiry that creates a novel perspective on the politics of Latin America and the United States alike. The continuity depends on the formation of a patrimonial State and a porous division between oligarchic interests and the public sphere of democratic politics; but it also depends on a capacity to adapt and change, and these changes are marked by successive and distinctive modes of rule in both Latin America and the United States. The book concludes with a description and comparison of the sequences and political characteristics of these modes of rule and discovers a recent and remarkable convergence of oligarchic rule in the Americas.
Table of Content
Part I: Modes of Oligarchic Rule in Latin America.- Chapter 1: Oligarchic Rule in the Americas, South to North.- Chapter 2: Oligarchy and the Patrimonial State.- Chapter 3: Modes of Oligarchic Rule in Latin America.- Part II: Modes of Oligarchic Rule in the United States.- Chapter 4: First Mode – The Federal Patrimonial State.- Chapter 5: Second Mode – Oligarchic Alliance and Party Politics.- Chapter 6: Third Mode – Oligarchy Transformed, the Republic Reduced.- Part III: Comparing Oligarchic Rule, South and North.- Chapter 7: Polity in the Americas.
About the author
Joe Foweraker is Emeritus Fellow at St. Antony’s College at the University of Oxford, and Honorary Professor at the University of Exeter, UK. He is the former Professor of Latin American Politics and Head of the School of Interdisciplinary Areas Studies at the University of Oxford, and author of
Polity: Demystifying Democracy in Latin America and Beyond (2018).
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