Reorganizing Popular Sector Incorporation

Eduardo Silva

Politics & Society, 2017, vol. 45, issue 1, 91-122

Abstract: Bolivia, Ecuador, and Venezuela are cases in which, despite of the collapse of party systems, the fragmentation of popular sectors, and the dismantling of corporatism that resulted from neoliberal reforms, a new mode of incorporation nonetheless emerged. This article argues that left government responses to the demands of heterogeneous, mobilized, popular sectors shaped a new incorporation in the political arena. In it governments deal differentially with the proliferation of politically significant popular sectors and subaltern social groups. This segmented popular interest intermediation is explained by the interaction of three broad conditions: the configuration of popular sector forces and their linkages to left parties when they took office after the crisis of neoliberalism, the ideational frames of said parties’ leadership, and the dynamics of opposition and support for the regime’s project. The new incorporation establishes a new normal in the relationship of popular sectors to politics in democratic regimes.

Keywords: post neoliberalism; social movements; left parties; interest representation and intermediation; Latin America; popular sector incorporation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1177/0032329216683166

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