The State and Society: Peru in Comparative Perspective

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Although the state's role in society has clearly expanded since the 1930s, its independent effect on social structure and change has been given little weight in modern political theories. To bring theory more into line with reality, Stepan proposes a new model of state autonomy which he shows to be particularly well suited for understanding political developments in the Iberian countries and their former Latin-American colonies. "This is a highly significant and innovative attempt to apply arguments derived from theories of the state and theories of corporatism to the comparative analysis of authoritarian rule in Latin America. It is the first major book-length statement I know that presents a theoretically oriented, genuinely comparative analysis of the performance of authoritarian regimes in Latin America, and it is excellent."--David Collier, Indiana University Frontmatter, pg. i Contents, pg. vii List of Tables and Figures, pg. viii Preface, pg. xi ONE. Liberal-Pluralist, Classic Marxist, and "Organic-Statist" Approaches to the State, pg. 3 TWO. "Corporatism" and the State, pg. 46 THREE. The Installation of Corporatist Regimes: Analytic Framework and Comparative Analysis, pg. 73 FOUR. Evolution of the Peruvian Army as the Strategic State Elite: Context and Content, pg. 117 FIVE. Organizing the Weakly Organized: The State and Urban Squatters, pg. 158 SIX. Reorganizing the Organized: Statism versus "Participatory" Self-Management in the Sugar Cooperatives, pg. 190 SEVEN. The State and Foreign Capital, pg. 230 EIGHT. The Institutionalization of Organic-Statist Regimes, pg. 290 Selected Bibliography, pg. 317 Index, pg. 339