P W Posner
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 53889 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | P W Posner |
| NOMBRES | P W |
| APELLIDO | Posner |
| FIRMA | POSNER P W |
| AFILIACIONES | Clark University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4987-2021 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 12 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 53 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 12 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1999 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 5 |
Social Welfare Policy in Post-Transition Chile
Chile's massive 2019 protests indicate a pronounced discrepancy between the country's alleged establishment of social democracy and the public's perception of pervasive inequity. To understand this discrepancy, this analysis evaluates the extent to which Chilean social welfare policy conforms to social democratic norms of promoting solidarity, equity, and universalism. Analysis of poverty reduction, pension, health care, and education policy demo…
Buen Vivir under Correa
This article seeks to understand the relationship between populism and participatory democracy through analysis of Rafael Correa’s left populist regime in Ecuador (2007–2017). It argues that rather than adhering to its own standard for participatory democracy, what the Correa regime referred to as the “Socialism of Buen Vivir ,” it employed the rhetoric of participatory democracy in the service of populist rule. As a result, the Correa regime fai…
Reevaluating the Chávez Regime
This analysis evaluates the Chávez regime by its own standard for democracy and citizenship, what it referred to as protagonistic, participatory democracy. Rather than committing itself to the realisation of this project, and the expanded notion of citizenship that it entailed, the Chávez regime employed the rhetoric of participatory democracy in the service of populist rule. As a result, it failed to promote the participatory form of democracy a…
Mobilizing Democracy
Labour market flexibility, employment and inequality
Flexibility proponents assert that rigid Latin American labour markets impede economic expansion and job growth; they advocate reforming labour codes through increased flexibility. Critics argue that heightened labour flexibility exacerbates inequality without expanding employment. From this perspective, precarious employment and inequality are remedied by strengthening labour’s bargaining power. Chile’s maintenance of flexible labour reforms ado…
Laboring Under Chávez
This analysis addresses two interrelated questions: what were labor conditions like under Hugo Chávez? and what do those conditions suggest about the relationship between populism and leftism in Latin America? The answer to the first question is unequivocal. Despite its socialist rhetoric, the Chávez regime fragmented and weakened organized labor, undermined collective bargaining, and exploited vulnerable workers in cooperatives. Thus the regime'…
Venezuela's Bolivarian Democracy
David Smilde and Daniel Hellinger (eds) (2011) Venezuela's Bolivarian Democracy: Participation, Politics and Culture under Chávez, Duke University Press ( Durham, NC), xxii + 382 pp. £71.00 hbk. £17.99 pbk. Much of the recent scholarly literature and press coverage of contemporary Venezuelan politics has been shortsighted or biased in its efforts to evaluate the Chávez regime. Mainstream scholars and journalists have interpreted political reality…
Targeted Assistance and Social Capital
This article argues that housing reforms imposed by the military regime, and largely preserved by the center-leftConcertaciónsince the 1990 transition to democracy, represent substantial impediments to collective action and the development of social capital among Chile's urban poor. In particular, housing policy exacerbates social stratification, reinforces workers' vulnerability to market forces and undermines social trust. These dynamics and th…
State, Market, and Democracy in Chile
"State, Market and Democracy in Chile assesses the quality of Chilean democracy by examining the impact of free market reforms on the urban poor's incentives for political participation and capacity for collective action. Through in depth analysis of labor market, social welfare and state reforms, along with extensive interviews with party officials and shantytown residents, this book reveals the manner in which neoliberal reform has undermined t…
Local Democracy and the Transformation of Popular Participation in Chile
Structural reforms, institutional arrangements, and the dominant mode of political party-base linkage all militate against effective popular participation in Chilean local democracy. Structural reforms have constrained local leaders' resources as well as their policymaking prerogatives; institutional arrangements limit public officials' accountability to their constituents and citizens' opportunities for input in decisionmaking. The parties of th…
Local democracy and popular participation
This article examines the factors that facilitate or impede the strengthening of popular participation in local democracy in Latin America through a comparative analysis of the Chilean and Brazilian cases. This comparative analysis illustrates the importance of structural reforms, the institutional configuration of local government and the role of political parties vis-à-vis civil society in either enhancing or impeding popular participation in l…
Popular Representation and Political Dissatisfaction in Chile's New Democracy
The constraints imposed on Chile's democratic transition by the military regime, plus the impact of structural reform and the political renovation of the dominant parties of the center and left, have made the traditional party allies of the popular sectors unable or unwiIIing to represent those constituents in the political arena. This argument is substantiated through an overview of pacted democratic transitions, an analysis of the evolution of …
Local democracy and popular participation
This article examines the factors that facilitate or impede the strengthening of popular participation in local democracy in Latin America through a comparative analysis of the Chilean and Brazilian cases. This comparative analysis illustrates the importance of structural reforms, the institutional configuration of local government and the role of political parties vis-à-vis civil society in either enhancing or impeding popular participation in l…
Local Democracy and the Transformation of Popular Participation in Chile
Structural reforms, institutional arrangements, and the dominant mode of political party-base linkage all militate against effective popular participation in Chilean local democracy. Structural reforms have constrained local leaders' resources as well as their policymaking prerogatives; institutional arrangements limit public officials' accountability to their constituents and citizens' opportunities for input in decisionmaking. The parties of th…
Popular Representation and Political Dissatisfaction in Chile's New Democracy
The constraints imposed on Chile's democratic transition by the military regime, plus the impact of structural reform and the political renovation of the dominant parties of the center and left, have made the traditional party allies of the popular sectors unable or unwiIIing to represent those constituents in the political arena. This argument is substantiated through an overview of pacted democratic transitions, an analysis of the evolution of …
Labour market flexibility, employment and inequality
Flexibility proponents assert that rigid Latin American labour markets impede economic expansion and job growth; they advocate reforming labour codes through increased flexibility. Critics argue that heightened labour flexibility exacerbates inequality without expanding employment. From this perspective, precarious employment and inequality are remedied by strengthening labour’s bargaining power. Chile’s maintenance of flexible labour reforms ado…
Targeted Assistance and Social Capital
This article argues that housing reforms imposed by the military regime, and largely preserved by the center-leftConcertaciónsince the 1990 transition to democracy, represent substantial impediments to collective action and the development of social capital among Chile's urban poor. In particular, housing policy exacerbates social stratification, reinforces workers' vulnerability to market forces and undermines social trust. These dynamics and th…
Social Welfare Policy in Post-Transition Chile
Chile's massive 2019 protests indicate a pronounced discrepancy between the country's alleged establishment of social democracy and the public's perception of pervasive inequity. To understand this discrepancy, this analysis evaluates the extent to which Chilean social welfare policy conforms to social democratic norms of promoting solidarity, equity, and universalism. Analysis of poverty reduction, pension, health care, and education policy demo…
Laboring Under Chávez
This analysis addresses two interrelated questions: what were labor conditions like under Hugo Chávez? and what do those conditions suggest about the relationship between populism and leftism in Latin America? The answer to the first question is unequivocal. Despite its socialist rhetoric, the Chávez regime fragmented and weakened organized labor, undermined collective bargaining, and exploited vulnerable workers in cooperatives. Thus the regime'…
Popular Representation and Political Dissatisfaction in Chile's New Democracy
The constraints imposed on Chile's democratic transition by the military regime, plus the impact of structural reform and the political renovation of the dominant parties of the center and left, have made the traditional party allies of the popular sectors unable or unwiIIing to represent those constituents in the political arena. This argument is substantiated through an overview of pacted democratic transitions, an analysis of the evolution of …
Local democracy and popular participation
This article examines the factors that facilitate or impede the strengthening of popular participation in local democracy in Latin America through a comparative analysis of the Chilean and Brazilian cases. This comparative analysis illustrates the importance of structural reforms, the institutional configuration of local government and the role of political parties vis-à-vis civil society in either enhancing or impeding popular participation in l…
Local Democracy and the Transformation of Popular Participation in Chile
Structural reforms, institutional arrangements, and the dominant mode of political party-base linkage all militate against effective popular participation in Chilean local democracy. Structural reforms have constrained local leaders' resources as well as their policymaking prerogatives; institutional arrangements limit public officials' accountability to their constituents and citizens' opportunities for input in decisionmaking. The parties of th…
State, Market, and Democracy in Chile
"State, Market and Democracy in Chile assesses the quality of Chilean democracy by examining the impact of free market reforms on the urban poor's incentives for political participation and capacity for collective action. Through in depth analysis of labor market, social welfare and state reforms, along with extensive interviews with party officials and shantytown residents, this book reveals the manner in which neoliberal reform has undermined t…
Targeted Assistance and Social Capital
This article argues that housing reforms imposed by the military regime, and largely preserved by the center-leftConcertaciónsince the 1990 transition to democracy, represent substantial impediments to collective action and the development of social capital among Chile's urban poor. In particular, housing policy exacerbates social stratification, reinforces workers' vulnerability to market forces and undermines social trust. These dynamics and th…
Venezuela's Bolivarian Democracy
David Smilde and Daniel Hellinger (eds) (2011) Venezuela's Bolivarian Democracy: Participation, Politics and Culture under Chávez, Duke University Press ( Durham, NC), xxii + 382 pp. £71.00 hbk. £17.99 pbk. Much of the recent scholarly literature and press coverage of contemporary Venezuelan politics has been shortsighted or biased in its efforts to evaluate the Chávez regime. Mainstream scholars and journalists have interpreted political reality…
Labour market flexibility, employment and inequality
Flexibility proponents assert that rigid Latin American labour markets impede economic expansion and job growth; they advocate reforming labour codes through increased flexibility. Critics argue that heightened labour flexibility exacerbates inequality without expanding employment. From this perspective, precarious employment and inequality are remedied by strengthening labour’s bargaining power. Chile’s maintenance of flexible labour reforms ado…
Laboring Under Chávez
This analysis addresses two interrelated questions: what were labor conditions like under Hugo Chávez? and what do those conditions suggest about the relationship between populism and leftism in Latin America? The answer to the first question is unequivocal. Despite its socialist rhetoric, the Chávez regime fragmented and weakened organized labor, undermined collective bargaining, and exploited vulnerable workers in cooperatives. Thus the regime'…
Mobilizing Democracy
Reevaluating the Chávez Regime
This analysis evaluates the Chávez regime by its own standard for democracy and citizenship, what it referred to as protagonistic, participatory democracy. Rather than committing itself to the realisation of this project, and the expanded notion of citizenship that it entailed, the Chávez regime employed the rhetoric of participatory democracy in the service of populist rule. As a result, it failed to promote the participatory form of democracy a…
Buen Vivir under Correa
This article seeks to understand the relationship between populism and participatory democracy through analysis of Rafael Correa’s left populist regime in Ecuador (2007–2017). It argues that rather than adhering to its own standard for participatory democracy, what the Correa regime referred to as the “Socialism of Buen Vivir ,” it employed the rhetoric of participatory democracy in the service of populist rule. As a result, the Correa regime fai…
Social Welfare Policy in Post-Transition Chile
Chile's massive 2019 protests indicate a pronounced discrepancy between the country's alleged establishment of social democracy and the public's perception of pervasive inequity. To understand this discrepancy, this analysis evaluates the extent to which Chilean social welfare policy conforms to social democratic norms of promoting solidarity, equity, and universalism. Analysis of poverty reduction, pension, health care, and education policy demo…
Democracy (11 obras) · Political science (11 obras) · Sociology (11 obras) · Politics (10 obras) · Law (9 obras) · Political economy (9 obras) · Politics and Society in Latin America (7 obras) · Economics (6 obras) · Political and Social Dynamics in Chile and Latin America (6 obras) · Public Administration (5 obras)