Joe Foweraker
Biographic Data
| ID | 240061 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joe Foweraker |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joe |
| FAMILY NAME | Foweraker |
| SIGNATURE | FOWERAKER J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Essex |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 36 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 142 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 6 |
Oligarchy in the Americas
Roundtable
In May 2020, the guest editors of this special number organized a roundtable discussion centred on six themes and covered a broad range of topics pertaining to Latin American development, politics and economics. The context of ‘pink tides’ and ‘right turns’ are a backdrop that represent both the consequences and the lead up to what comes next. At the centre of the analysis are the core dynamics of the political systems we intend to explore. The p…
Democracy and its Discontents in Latin America
Why is there so much discontent with democracy across Latin America? Are regimes being judged by unrealistic standards of success—or is there legitimate cause for criticism in light of widespread failures to deliver either transparency or effective public policies? Addressing these questions across a variety of dimensions, the authors explore the diverse ways in which the specific nature of Latin American democracy explains the current performanc…
Economic development and democracy revisited
It is generally accepted that there is a relationship between economic development and democracy which can be demonstrated by quantitative empirical evidence. The difficulties of validating the empirical claims derive not so much from the measures of economic development as from the measures of democracy itself. Our inquiry deepens the investigation of the relationship by 'unpacking' the dependent variable into separate measures of eight core val…
Encyclopedia of Democratic Thought
Containing almost 200 entries from 'accountability' to the 'Westminster model' the Encyclopedia of Democratic Thought explores all the ideas that matter to democracy past, present and future. It is destined to become the first port-of-call for all students, teachers and researchers of political science interested in democratic ideas, democratic practice, and the quality of democratic governance. The Encyclopedia provides extensive coverage of all…
Differentiating the democratic performance of the West
It is a commonplace of comparative politics that the democratic performance of the established democracies of the West is both uniform and superior to that of other democracies across the globe. This commonplace both reflects and reinforces the mainstream measures of democracy, like those of Freedom House or Polity III, that fail to differentiate the democratic performance of the West. This article examines this commonplace by deploying the measu…
Constitutional Design and Democratic Performance
The article examines the relationship between constitutional design and democratic performance. To do so, it draws on a new data set, containing measures of eight core values of liberal democratic government (accountability, representation, constraint, participation, political rights, civil rights, property rights, minority rights) for 40 country cases over 29 years. It uses pooled cross section time-series regressions to explore the effects of e…
The Uneven Performance of Third Wave Democracies
This article investigates the performance of the new democracies of the third wave by developing a conceptual model of the core elements of liberal democratic government and by constructing a new Database of Liberal Democratic Performance. The performance is shown to be uneven in two main ways. First, the institutional attributes of democratic government advance while individual and minority rights languish. Second, particular institutional attri…
Serving the Political Science Community of Europe
Grassroots Movements and Political Activism in Latin America
This essay addresses the changing trajectory of grassroots political activity in Latin America, with special reference to Chile and Brazil, and assesses its impact on the policy and practices of social development. It traces this trajectory through the transitions from authoritarian to democratic rule, and focuses on the responses of grassroots organisations to democratic governance and the rise of neo-liberalism. In particular, it shows that soc…
Citizenship Rights and Social Movements
Collective action in modern history has come to be defined by people fighting for their rights. This study identifies the main connections made between collective action and individual rights, in theory and history, and sets out to test them in the comparative context of modernising authoritarian regimes in Brazil, Chile, Mexico, and Spain. The study employs new evidence and innovative methods to illuminate the political relationship between soci…
Measuring Liberal Democratic Performance
Liberal democratic performance is understood as the delivery of liberal democratic values, and not as regime longevity or government efficacy. Measuring it is a matter of how far liberal democratic governments achieve in practice the values they endorse in principle. It is recognized that the performance of liberal democratic governments varies widely. But extant attempts to measure this variation suffer problems of reliability and validity, and …
Individual Rights and Social Movements
This article is a comparative study of the relationship between social movements and the individual rights of citizenship. It identifies three main connections between collective action and individual rights made in theory and history, and analyses them in the context of modern authoritarian regimes. It does so by measuring both social mobilization and the presence of rights over time in Brazil, Chile, Mexico and Spain, and analyses their mutual …
Theorizing social movements
"In this first volume in the Critical Studies on Latin America series, Joe Foweraker presents and clarifies the main theories of social movements. Based on over twenty-five years of grassroots research, Theorizing Social Movements combines the first full synopsis of social movement theory with a fully integrated account of social movement activity throughout Latin America." "Professor Foweraker reveals how social movements change individual and c…
The August 1994 elections in Mexico
Popular Mobilization in Mexico
This book explores the process of popular mobilisation in contemporary Mexico through the experience of the country's most important popular organisation - the teachers' movement. It creates a distinctive perspective on Mexican politics and makes an interesting contribution to the study of popular or 'social' movements. This in-depth study of a popular movement in Latin America provides a richly detailed account of its organisation, leadership, s…
To Get out of the Mud
Popular Movements and Political Change in Mexico
Assessing the overall political significance of the emergence of strong popular movements in Mexico, the authors draw on extensive case materials to explore the multiple ways these movements engage with regional and national politics
Los movimientos populares en America Latina
Los movimientos populares en América Latina
Making Democracy in Spain
Popular Movements and Political Change in Mexico
Assessing the overall political significance of the emergence of strong popular movements in Mexico, the authors draw on extensive case materials to explore the multiple ways these movements engage with regional and national politics.
Fascism in Popular Memory
Preface Introduction Part I. Oral Sources and the analysis of Cultural Identities: 1. Memories of self- autobiography and self-representation Part II. Oral Sources and the History of Grass-Roots Cultural Forms: 2. Fascism and the symbolic order in everyday life Part III. Oral Sources and the History of the events of Everyday Life: 3. Forms of social acceptance of Fascism 4. Resistance to demographic policy 5. Mussolini's visit to Mirafiori Append…
Legal Opposition Politics under Authoritarian Rule in Brazil
Los movimientos populares y la transformación del sistema político mexicano
Measuring Liberal Democratic Performance
Liberal democratic performance is understood as the delivery of liberal democratic values, and not as regime longevity or government efficacy. Measuring it is a matter of how far liberal democratic governments achieve in practice the values they endorse in principle. It is recognized that the performance of liberal democratic governments varies widely. But extant attempts to measure this variation suffer problems of reliability and validity, and …
Constitutional Design and Democratic Performance
The article examines the relationship between constitutional design and democratic performance. To do so, it draws on a new data set, containing measures of eight core values of liberal democratic government (accountability, representation, constraint, participation, political rights, civil rights, property rights, minority rights) for 40 country cases over 29 years. It uses pooled cross section time-series regressions to explore the effects of e…
Corporatist Strategies and the Transition to Democracy in Spain
At a time when political scientists have come to accept that there is no realistic possibility of a general theory of the capitalist state or, especially, its historical forms, they are still reaching for general statements about contemporary corporatist structures and institutions. In their majority these statements are clearly descriptive rather than theoretical and are derived from studies of the advanced industrial nations of western Europe a…
The Struggle for Land
Widespread violence, legal chicanery and ruthless profiteering have come to characterise the expansion of the agricultural frontier in Brazil. With the advance of this frontier, the pioneering peasants, on the one hand, and large landowners and large economic enterprise, on the other, have become locked in an increasingly bitter struggle for land. In his book, Joe Foweraker draws on extensive empirical research to demonstrate the dimensions and d…
Grassroots Movements and Political Activism in Latin America
This essay addresses the changing trajectory of grassroots political activity in Latin America, with special reference to Chile and Brazil, and assesses its impact on the policy and practices of social development. It traces this trajectory through the transitions from authoritarian to democratic rule, and focuses on the responses of grassroots organisations to democratic governance and the rise of neo-liberalism. In particular, it shows that soc…
Economic development and democracy revisited
It is generally accepted that there is a relationship between economic development and democracy which can be demonstrated by quantitative empirical evidence. The difficulties of validating the empirical claims derive not so much from the measures of economic development as from the measures of democracy itself. Our inquiry deepens the investigation of the relationship by 'unpacking' the dependent variable into separate measures of eight core val…
The Uneven Performance of Third Wave Democracies
This article investigates the performance of the new democracies of the third wave by developing a conceptual model of the core elements of liberal democratic government and by constructing a new Database of Liberal Democratic Performance. The performance is shown to be uneven in two main ways. First, the institutional attributes of democratic government advance while individual and minority rights languish. Second, particular institutional attri…
Accumulation and authoritarianism on the pioneer frontier of Brazil
The essay addresses the relationship between pioneer frontier and State in Brazil: departing from an empirical investigation of the roles of law, bureaucracy and violence on the frontier itself, on the one hand, and an assessment of the major interpretations of the State, on the other, the argument focuses on the forms of mediation which characterize the State, and which constitute the social forces in struggle - both on the frontier and elsewher…
Individual Rights and Social Movements
This article is a comparative study of the relationship between social movements and the individual rights of citizenship. It identifies three main connections between collective action and individual rights made in theory and history, and analyses them in the context of modern authoritarian regimes. It does so by measuring both social mobilization and the presence of rights over time in Brazil, Chile, Mexico and Spain, and analyses their mutual …
To Get out of the Mud
The August 1994 elections in Mexico
Roundtable
In May 2020, the guest editors of this special number organized a roundtable discussion centred on six themes and covered a broad range of topics pertaining to Latin American development, politics and economics. The context of ‘pink tides’ and ‘right turns’ are a backdrop that represent both the consequences and the lead up to what comes next. At the centre of the analysis are the core dynamics of the political systems we intend to explore. The p…
Differentiating the democratic performance of the West
It is a commonplace of comparative politics that the democratic performance of the established democracies of the West is both uniform and superior to that of other democracies across the globe. This commonplace both reflects and reinforces the mainstream measures of democracy, like those of Freedom House or Polity III, that fail to differentiate the democratic performance of the West. This article examines this commonplace by deploying the measu…
Los movimientos populares y la transformación del sistema político mexicano
The Struggle for Land
Widespread violence, legal chicanery and ruthless profiteering have come to characterise the expansion of the agricultural frontier in Brazil. With the advance of this frontier, the pioneering peasants, on the one hand, and large landowners and large economic enterprise, on the other, have become locked in an increasingly bitter struggle for land. In his book, Joe Foweraker draws on extensive empirical research to demonstrate the dimensions and d…
Accumulation and authoritarianism on the pioneer frontier of Brazil
The essay addresses the relationship between pioneer frontier and State in Brazil: departing from an empirical investigation of the roles of law, bureaucracy and violence on the frontier itself, on the one hand, and an assessment of the major interpretations of the State, on the other, the argument focuses on the forms of mediation which characterize the State, and which constitute the social forces in struggle - both on the frontier and elsewher…
The Struggle for Land. A Political Economy of the Pioneer Frontier in Brazil from 1930 to the Present Day
The Brazilian State and the Pioneer Frontier
The Struggle for Land
The Argentine elections of 30 October 1983
Spain
Journal Article Spain: change of a nation Get access Spain: change of a nation. By Robert Graham. London: Michael Joseph. 1984. 327pp. Index. £14.95. Joe Foweraker Joe Foweraker 1University of Essex Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 60, Issue 4, Autumn 1984, Pages 701–702, https://doi.org/10.2307/2620091 Published: 01 October 1984
Communism and political change in Spain
Journal Article Communism and political change in Spain Get access Communism and political change in Spain. By Eusebio Mujal-León. Bloomington, Ind.: Indiana University Press. 1983. 274 pp. Index. $22.50; £15.75. ISBN 0 253 31389 9. Joe Foweraker Joe Foweraker 1University of Essex Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar International Affairs, Volume 61, Issue 2, April 1985, Pages 316–317, https://doi.org/10.2307/2…
Corporatist Strategies and the Transition to Democracy in Spain
At a time when political scientists have come to accept that there is no realistic possibility of a general theory of the capitalist state or, especially, its historical forms, they are still reaching for general statements about contemporary corporatist structures and institutions. In their majority these statements are clearly descriptive rather than theoretical and are derived from studies of the advanced industrial nations of western Europe a…
Fascism and resistance in Portugal
Journal Article Fascism and resistance in Portugal: communists, liberals and military dissidents in the opposition to Salazar, 1941–1974 Get access Fascism and resistance in Portugal: communists, liberals and military dissidents in the opposition to Salazar, 1941–1974. By D. L. Raby. Manchester: Manchester University Press. 1988. 288pp. Index. £29.95. ISBN 0 719 02514 1. Joe Foweraker Joe Foweraker 1University of Essex Search for other works by t…
Legal opposition politics under authoritarian rule in Brazil
Fascism in Popular Memory
Preface Introduction Part I. Oral Sources and the analysis of Cultural Identities: 1. Memories of self- autobiography and self-representation Part II. Oral Sources and the History of Grass-Roots Cultural Forms: 2. Fascism and the symbolic order in everyday life Part III. Oral Sources and the History of the events of Everyday Life: 3. Forms of social acceptance of Fascism 4. Resistance to demographic policy 5. Mussolini's visit to Mirafiori Append…
Legal Opposition Politics under Authoritarian Rule in Brazil
Los movimientos populares y la transformación del sistema político mexicano
Popular Movements and Political Change in Mexico
Assessing the overall political significance of the emergence of strong popular movements in Mexico, the authors draw on extensive case materials to explore the multiple ways these movements engage with regional and national politics.
Los movimientos populares en America Latina
Los movimientos populares en América Latina
Making Democracy in Spain
Popular Movements and Political Change in Mexico
Assessing the overall political significance of the emergence of strong popular movements in Mexico, the authors draw on extensive case materials to explore the multiple ways these movements engage with regional and national politics
To Get out of the Mud
Theorizing social movements
"In this first volume in the Critical Studies on Latin America series, Joe Foweraker presents and clarifies the main theories of social movements. Based on over twenty-five years of grassroots research, Theorizing Social Movements combines the first full synopsis of social movement theory with a fully integrated account of social movement activity throughout Latin America." "Professor Foweraker reveals how social movements change individual and c…
The August 1994 elections in Mexico
Popular Mobilization in Mexico
This book explores the process of popular mobilisation in contemporary Mexico through the experience of the country's most important popular organisation - the teachers' movement. It creates a distinctive perspective on Mexican politics and makes an interesting contribution to the study of popular or 'social' movements. This in-depth study of a popular movement in Latin America provides a richly detailed account of its organisation, leadership, s…
Individual Rights and Social Movements
This article is a comparative study of the relationship between social movements and the individual rights of citizenship. It identifies three main connections between collective action and individual rights made in theory and history, and analyses them in the context of modern authoritarian regimes. It does so by measuring both social mobilization and the presence of rights over time in Brazil, Chile, Mexico and Spain, and analyses their mutual …
Citizenship Rights and Social Movements
Collective action in modern history has come to be defined by people fighting for their rights. This study identifies the main connections made between collective action and individual rights, in theory and history, and sets out to test them in the comparative context of modernising authoritarian regimes in Brazil, Chile, Mexico, and Spain. The study employs new evidence and innovative methods to illuminate the political relationship between soci…
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