Philip Oxhorn
Biographic Data
| ID | 3673338 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Philip Oxhorn |
| GIVEN NAMES | Philip |
| FAMILY NAME | Oxhorn |
| SIGNATURE | OXHORN P |
| AFFILIATIONS | McGill University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 35 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 95 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 33 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1988 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Inequality and Inclusion in Latin America
Editors’ foreword to the special issue
Social Inequality, Civil Society, and the Limits of Citizenship in Latin America
Latin America's Elusive Public Sphere
[N]ew ideas and new actors are needed to fill the void in the region's public sphere more than ever
Sustaining Civil Society: Economic Change, Democracy, and the Social Construction of Citizenship in Latin America
"South America is not the poorest continent in the world, but it may very well be the most unjust." This statement by Ricardo Lagos, then president of Chile, at the Summit of the Americas in January 2004 captures nicely the dilemma that faces Latin American countries in the wake of the transition to democracy that swept across the continent in the last two decades of the twentieth century. While political rights are now available to citizens at u…
Editor’s Foreword: Some Behind-the-Scenes Changes at Larr
Editor’s ForewordSome Behind-the-Scenes Changes at LARR Philip Oxhorn In my almost eight years as editor in chief of the Latin American Research Review, things have changed a lot on a number of levels. Among other things, our workload has more or less doubled since January 2007, as the number of quality submissions we receive has grown dramatically. At the same time, the technology involved in publishing journals seems to have changed at an equal…
Producción, calidad y difusión de las revistas científicas del siglo XXI
Es verdaderamente un honor para mí compartir la celebración de un importante hito para una de las más respetadas revistas de ciencias sociales en América Latina. Al cumplir la Revista Mexicana de Sociología 75 años, la publicación académica en la región está en un punto de inflexión importante. Enormes avances en la tecnología de la información están transformando cada vez más la forma en que la investigación se divulga. Sin embargo, este cambio …
Cuando la democracia no es tan democrática. La exclusión social y los límites
Este trabajo argumenta que muchos de los retos enfrentados actualmente por las democracias latinoamericanas y las implicaciones a largo plazo de esos retos para la estabilidad democrática en la región, pueden ser entendidos en términos de su impacto en la esfera pública. La primera sección desarrolla un marco teórico para entender la esfera pública como el nexo entre la sociedad civil y el Estado. La segunda sección examina la naturaleza de la es…
Sustaining Civil Society: Economic Change, Democracy, and the Social Construction of Citizenship in Latin America
"Devoting particular emphasis to Bolivia, Chile, and Mexico, proposes a theory of civil society to explain the economic and political challenges for continuing democratization in Latin America"--Provided by publisher.
Latin American Research Review 's First Special Issue
Latin American Research Review's First Special Issue Philip Oxhorn To the best of our collective knowledge, this special issue, "Living in Actually Existing Democracies," represents the first time in LARR's forty-five-year history that the journal has published an issue dedicated to a single theme outside its regular production schedule. We selected the theme of this issue—living in actually existing democracies—to inaugurate what we plan to be a…
Cidadania como consumo ou cidadania como agência: Uma comparação entre as reformas de democratização da Bolívia e do Brasil
A primeira parte do artigo examina dois modelos opostos de cidadania, no contexto da América Latina: a cidadania como consumo, que reflete as consequências da influência de reformas orientadas para o mercado sobre os padrões de representação, no âmbito dos direitos políticos universais; e a cidadania como agência, que reflete o surgimento de formas alternativas de participação através da sociedade civil, bem como o seu potencial impacto sobre os …
Beyond Neoliberalism in Latin America?
While the neoliberal model continues to dominate economic and political life in Latin America, people throughout the region have begun to strategize about how to move beyond this model. Twelve cutting
From Allende to Lula ; Assessing the Legacy
Additional informationNotes on contributorsPhilip OxhornPhilip Oxhorn is Associate Professor of Political Science at McGill University. He has published widely on democratization, civil society and popular sector mobilization. He is the author of Organizing Civil Society: The Popular Sectors and the Struggle for Democracy in Chile (Penn State Press, 1995)
Social Movements and Economic Transition: Markets and Distributive Conflict in Mexico
History Catching Up with the Present? State-Society Relations and the Argentine Crisis
This article complements the view that socio-political elements underpin the causes of the current crisis by focusing on the 'Latin Americanisation' of Argentina through the acuteness of social tensions. This is attributed to economic and political change since the 1930s, through an increasingly 'politicised state', captured by self-interested actors and alienated from civil society. Based on a brief theoretical overview of state-society relation…
The Virtues and Misfortunes of Civil Society in Cuba
Civil society is one of historical realities most subject to conceptual ambiguities, probably because concept is often subject of heated polemical debates over whether to define it in purely normative terms. A commonality among these definitions has been delineation of a simple linear relationship between civil society and other concurrent historical facts such as market, liberal values, political democracy, and state. In an attempt to avoid thes…
Latin American Democracy in "Post-Consolidation" Literature: Optimism and Pessimism
Desigualdad social, sociedad civil y los límites de la ciudadanía en América Latina
El objetivo del artículo es aplicar algunas de las ideas de Marshall acerca de la interrelación entre diversos tipos de derechos ciudadanos y la desigualdad social para entender algunos de los principales retos enfrentados por las democracias de América Latina. Se propone entender el desarrollo de los derechos ciudadanos como un proceso íntimamente vinculado con el desarrollo de la sociedad civil. En la primera parte se argumenta que los derechos…
Political Culture, Social Movements, and Democratic Transitions in South America in the Twentieth Century
Fernando Devoto and Torcuato Di Tella have put together a volume that is impressive for its scope and detail. Bringing together a group of 16 renowned scholars from North and South America, Political Culture, Social Movements, and Democratic Transitions in South America in the Twentieth Century amply succeeds in fulfilling the publisher’s goal of creating “a set of sources which can be used by scholars for their own present or future research” (p…
From Human Rights to Citizenship Rights: Recent Trends in the Study of Latin American Social Movements
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La construcción del Estado por la sociedad civil: La ley de participación popular de Bolivia y el desafío de la democracia local
Este capítulo analisa as perspectivas de sucesso da Lei de Participação Popular (LPP) da Bolívia em sua ambiciosa tarefa de democratização. Argumenta que a LPP deve ser vista como o início de um processo de democratização nos âmbitos nacional e local, e como um meio de fortalecimento da sociedade civil por meio da reforma do Estado. As instituições da LPP oferecem espaços para a incorporação democrática de grupos indígenas na política e na socied…
What Kind of Democracy? What Kind of Market? Latin America in the Age of Neoliberalism
Recent Research on Chile: The Challenge of Understanding “Success”
The inauguration of President Patricio Aylwin in 1990 ended sixteen years of military rule in Chile and completed the wave of democratic transitions sweeping Latin America since the late 1970s. Given Chile's *1 would like to thank Pushkar for his many useful suggestions
What Kind of Democracy? What Kind of Market? Latin America in the Age of Neoliberalism
The Ambiguous Link: Social Movements and Democracy in Latin America
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Cuba: Virtudes E Infortunios De La Sociedad Civil
The authors explore the characteristics and potential of Cuban civil society in a context of economic transition and reform, and growing North American aggression. They also explore State actions, beginning in the mid 90's, that have restricted the public space which civil society requires. They conclude with some brief comments about the important role that civil society can play in the continuation of the socialist political project and the sta…
The Social Foundations of Latin America's Recurrent Populism: Problems of Popular Sector Class Formation and Collective Action
The article is an attempt to offer a 'bottom-up' explanation of political instability in Latin America by examining patterns of class formation in the region. It argues that the heterogeneous class structure characterizing the popular sectors creates collective action problems that historically have resulted in popular sector mobilization by populist elites, if not apathy or civil war. The possibility of an alternative basis for popular sector mo…
Where Did All the Protesters Go: Popular Mobilization and the Transition to Democracy in Chile
Among most intriguing-and least studied-paradoxes to have emerged in growing literature on transitions to democracy are those relating to significance of mobilization in recent transition processes. As O'Donnell and Schmitter (1986) point out, mass mobilizations (what they refer to as resurrection of civil society and subsequent popular upsurge) have played the crucial role of pushing transition further than it would otherwise have gone (p. 56), …
The Popular Sector Response to an Authoritarian Regime: Shantytown Organizations Since the Military Coup
The emergence of base-level organizational activity in Chilean poblaciones (shantytowns) beginning in the late 1970s under a repressive military regime is one of the most puzzling social and political phenomena in Latin America today. On one hand, such organizational activity represented an attempt to restructure the social fabric of society virtually destroyed by the progressive dismantling of the state's social welfare apparatus in a highly res…
Understanding Political Change After Authoritarian Rule: The Popular Sectors and Chile's New Democratic Regime
When Patricio Aylwin accepted the Chilean presidential sash in March 1990 an era in Latin American politics dominated by authoritarian regimes came to an end. Virtually every country in the region now had to grapple with the complicated task of consolidating fragile democratic regimes. Surprisingly, given what may be the emergence of a new democratic era, one is hardpressed even to begin answering an obvious question: How will years of non-democr…
Cidadania como consumo ou cidadania como agência: Uma comparação entre as reformas de democratização da Bolívia e do Brasil
A primeira parte do artigo examina dois modelos opostos de cidadania, no contexto da América Latina: a cidadania como consumo, que reflete as consequências da influência de reformas orientadas para o mercado sobre os padrões de representação, no âmbito dos direitos políticos universais; e a cidadania como agência, que reflete o surgimento de formas alternativas de participação através da sociedade civil, bem como o seu potencial impacto sobre os …
From Human Rights to Citizenship Rights: Recent Trends in the Study of Latin American Social Movements
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the 'Save PDF' action button
Democracia, autoritarismo y el problema de la gobernabilidad en América Latina
Cuba: Virtudes E Infortunios De La Sociedad Civil
The authors explore the characteristics and potential of Cuban civil society in a context of economic transition and reform, and growing North American aggression. They also explore State actions, beginning in the mid 90's, that have restricted the public space which civil society requires. They conclude with some brief comments about the important role that civil society can play in the continuation of the socialist political project and the sta…
Surviving the return to ‘normalcy: Social movements, democratic consolidation and economic restructuring
History Catching Up with the Present? State-Society Relations and the Argentine Crisis
This article complements the view that socio-political elements underpin the causes of the current crisis by focusing on the 'Latin Americanisation' of Argentina through the acuteness of social tensions. This is attributed to economic and political change since the 1930s, through an increasingly 'politicised state', captured by self-interested actors and alienated from civil society. Based on a brief theoretical overview of state-society relation…
The Virtues and Misfortunes of Civil Society in Cuba
Civil society is one of historical realities most subject to conceptual ambiguities, probably because concept is often subject of heated polemical debates over whether to define it in purely normative terms. A commonality among these definitions has been delineation of a simple linear relationship between civil society and other concurrent historical facts such as market, liberal values, political democracy, and state. In an attempt to avoid thes…
The Ambiguous Link: Social Movements and Democracy in Latin America
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Organizaciones poblacionales y constitución actual de la sociedad civil
El resurgimiento de las actividades organizativas en las poblaciones de Santiago es uno de los fenomenos mas impresionantes hoy di a en America Latina. Mientras la violencia desencadenada por el golpe militar ha creado nuevas necesidades politicas, economicas y sociales, el desarrollo significativo de organizaciones en todo Chile ha tenido desde sus principios una base intrinsecamente politica: la creacion de un espacio p(ublico para la expresi6n…
Organizaciones poblacionales y constitución actual de la sociedad civil
El resurgimiento de las actividades organizativas en las poblaciones de Santiago es uno de los fenomenos mas impresionantes hoy di a en America Latina. Mientras la violencia desencadenada por el golpe militar ha creado nuevas necesidades politicas, economicas y sociales, el desarrollo significativo de organizaciones en todo Chile ha tenido desde sus principios una base intrinsecamente politica: la creacion de un espacio p(ublico para la expresi6n…
The Popular Sector Response to an Authoritarian Regime: Shantytown Organizations Since the Military Coup
The emergence of base-level organizational activity in Chilean poblaciones (shantytowns) beginning in the late 1970s under a repressive military regime is one of the most puzzling social and political phenomena in Latin America today. On one hand, such organizational activity represented an attempt to restructure the social fabric of society virtually destroyed by the progressive dismantling of the state's social welfare apparatus in a highly res…
Where Did All the Protesters Go: Popular Mobilization and the Transition to Democracy in Chile
Among most intriguing-and least studied-paradoxes to have emerged in growing literature on transitions to democracy are those relating to significance of mobilization in recent transition processes. As O'Donnell and Schmitter (1986) point out, mass mobilizations (what they refer to as resurrection of civil society and subsequent popular upsurge) have played the crucial role of pushing transition further than it would otherwise have gone (p. 56), …
Democracia, autoritarismo y el problema de la gobernabilidad en América Latina
Understanding Political Change After Authoritarian Rule: The Popular Sectors and Chile's New Democratic Regime
When Patricio Aylwin accepted the Chilean presidential sash in March 1990 an era in Latin American politics dominated by authoritarian regimes came to an end. Virtually every country in the region now had to grapple with the complicated task of consolidating fragile democratic regimes. Surprisingly, given what may be the emergence of a new democratic era, one is hardpressed even to begin answering an obvious question: How will years of non-democr…
Modern Latin American Revolutions. Eric Selbin
Surviving the return to ‘normalcy: Social movements, democratic consolidation and economic restructuring
What Kind of Democracy? What Kind of Market: Latin America in the Age of Neoliberalism
Markets and Democracy in Latin America: Conflict or Convergence
The authors analyze the constraints faced by Latin American countries as they seek both to consolidate fragile democratic regimes and to restore economic dynamism
The Social Foundations of Latin America's Recurrent Populism: Problems of Popular Sector Class Formation and Collective Action
The article is an attempt to offer a 'bottom-up' explanation of political instability in Latin America by examining patterns of class formation in the region. It argues that the heterogeneous class structure characterizing the popular sectors creates collective action problems that historically have resulted in popular sector mobilization by populist elites, if not apathy or civil war. The possibility of an alternative basis for popular sector mo…
Recent Research on Chile: The Challenge of Understanding “Success”
The inauguration of President Patricio Aylwin in 1990 ended sixteen years of military rule in Chile and completed the wave of democratic transitions sweeping Latin America since the late 1970s. Given Chile's *1 would like to thank Pushkar for his many useful suggestions
What Kind of Democracy? What Kind of Market? Latin America in the Age of Neoliberalism
The Ambiguous Link: Social Movements and Democracy in Latin America
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. Please use the Get access link above for information on how to access this content
Cuba: Virtudes E Infortunios De La Sociedad Civil
The authors explore the characteristics and potential of Cuban civil society in a context of economic transition and reform, and growing North American aggression. They also explore State actions, beginning in the mid 90's, that have restricted the public space which civil society requires. They conclude with some brief comments about the important role that civil society can play in the continuation of the socialist political project and the sta…
What Kind of Democracy? What Kind of Market? Latin America in the Age of Neoliberalism
Latin American Democracy in "Post-Consolidation" Literature: Optimism and Pessimism
Desigualdad social, sociedad civil y los límites de la ciudadanía en América Latina
El objetivo del artículo es aplicar algunas de las ideas de Marshall acerca de la interrelación entre diversos tipos de derechos ciudadanos y la desigualdad social para entender algunos de los principales retos enfrentados por las democracias de América Latina. Se propone entender el desarrollo de los derechos ciudadanos como un proceso íntimamente vinculado con el desarrollo de la sociedad civil. En la primera parte se argumenta que los derechos…
Political Culture, Social Movements, and Democratic Transitions in South America in the Twentieth Century
Fernando Devoto and Torcuato Di Tella have put together a volume that is impressive for its scope and detail. Bringing together a group of 16 renowned scholars from North and South America, Political Culture, Social Movements, and Democratic Transitions in South America in the Twentieth Century amply succeeds in fulfilling the publisher’s goal of creating “a set of sources which can be used by scholars for their own present or future research” (p…
From Human Rights to Citizenship Rights: Recent Trends in the Study of Latin American Social Movements
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the 'Save PDF' action button
La construcción del Estado por la sociedad civil: La ley de participación popular de Bolivia y el desafío de la democracia local
Este capítulo analisa as perspectivas de sucesso da Lei de Participação Popular (LPP) da Bolívia em sua ambiciosa tarefa de democratização. Argumenta que a LPP deve ser vista como o início de um processo de democratização nos âmbitos nacional e local, e como um meio de fortalecimento da sociedade civil por meio da reforma do Estado. As instituições da LPP oferecem espaços para a incorporação democrática de grupos indígenas na política e na socied…
History Catching Up with the Present? State-Society Relations and the Argentine Crisis
This article complements the view that socio-political elements underpin the causes of the current crisis by focusing on the 'Latin Americanisation' of Argentina through the acuteness of social tensions. This is attributed to economic and political change since the 1930s, through an increasingly 'politicised state', captured by self-interested actors and alienated from civil society. Based on a brief theoretical overview of state-society relation…
The Virtues and Misfortunes of Civil Society in Cuba
Civil society is one of historical realities most subject to conceptual ambiguities, probably because concept is often subject of heated polemical debates over whether to define it in purely normative terms. A commonality among these definitions has been delineation of a simple linear relationship between civil society and other concurrent historical facts such as market, liberal values, political democracy, and state. In an attempt to avoid thes…
From Allende to Lula ; Assessing the Legacy
Additional informationNotes on contributorsPhilip OxhornPhilip Oxhorn is Associate Professor of Political Science at McGill University. He has published widely on democratization, civil society and popular sector mobilization. He is the author of Organizing Civil Society: The Popular Sectors and the Struggle for Democracy in Chile (Penn State Press, 1995)
Social Movements and Economic Transition: Markets and Distributive Conflict in Mexico
Beyond Neoliberalism in Latin America?
While the neoliberal model continues to dominate economic and political life in Latin America, people throughout the region have begun to strategize about how to move beyond this model. Twelve cutting
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