The Political Economy of Elites in Latin America

Herausgeber: Ickler, Jan; Ramos Padrón, Rebeca

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Recent years have seen renewed interest in elites around the world, and their interconnection with power, privilege, social stratification, and social change. The contributors to this edited volume explore the many facets of the role of elites in the political economy of Latin America.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 250
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Dezember 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 16mm
• Gewicht: 553g
• ISBN-13: 9781032636726
• ISBN-10: 1032636726
• Artikelnr.: 71712291

Autorenporträt

Jan Ickler is a researcher and Ph.D. candidate at the University of Kassel and coordinator at the Center for Advanced Latin American Studies (CALAS). He is focusing his doctoral research on the role of economic elites in Latin America's political economy. He studied philosophy, political sciences, and sociology and obtained his Master's degree in political economy. Rebeca Ramos Padrón is a postdoctoral researcher within the CALAS-Laboratory Project Confronting Inequalities in Latin America: Perspectives on Wealth and Power. Previously, Ramos was a DAAD fellow as a visiting professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Kassel. For over 20 years, she worked as a professor in the Chair of Sociology at the University of Havana (UH), serving as its vice-director for 7 years. Ramos completed her Ph.D. in sociology at the UH and her MA in International Social Work at the University of Gothenburg, Sweden. Member of the UNESCO Chair on Sustainable Human Development-UH and consultant for UN-HABITAT-Cuba. She has published on issues related to social policy systems, employment, and labor market insertion from a perspective of social inequalities, socio-ecological transformation, and human development in Cuba and Latin America.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction 1.The Political Economy of Elites in Latin America Part I:
Elites in the Political Economy of Latin America 2.Brazilian Agribusiness
and Aviation: Intra-elite Competition and Accommodation, Cross-Class
Exclusion and Incorporation 3.Economic Elites and Public Sector Size in
Brazil and Mexico 4. Economic Elites and Development with Equity in Bolivia
and Ecuador 5. Entrenching Mexican Corporate Elites in Global Corporate
Networks (and Vice-Versa) Part II: Elites and the State in Latin America
6.Chile and the Contemporary Power of Capital: Peripheral Predatory Rentier
Capitalism and the Political Practices of Business Elites 7. Business and
State Relations in Uncertain Times: Alliance Recalibration in Nicaragua 8.
From Plutocracy to Modernity in Bolivia: Economic Elites Adapting to the
State Transformation under the MAS Government Part III: Elites, Wealth, and
Power 9. Earning But Not Leading: Argentina's Economic Elites and the
Exercise of Power in Global Capitalism 10. Discursive Power in Central
America: Economic Elites and Disputes Over Public Policies During the
Covid-19 Pandemic 11. Wealth Concentration in Latin America: The Role of
Direct Taxation 12. Trusts: Searching for the Hidden Treasure in Ecuador.
Index