Democratic Stability in Venezuela
Elite Consensus or Class Compromise
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5250795 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Kevin Neuhouser (corresponding author) |
| Year | 1992 |
| Volume | 57 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 117 |
| Publication date | 1992-02-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Sociological Review (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0003-1224 • E-ISSN: 1939-8271 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publications Inc (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/2096148 |
| OpenAlex | W2314177101 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 23 |
| References cited | 11 |
An elite framework is often used to explain democratic stability in post-1958 Venezuela. I argue that a class-compromise model is more useful, not onlyfor understanding the Venezuelan case but also for explaining the variation in regime outcomes across regions of the capitalist world economy and within the periphery. To contrast the utility of the two models, I analyze Venezuela's political history since 1945. To demonstrate the more general usefulness of the class-compromise model, I compare Venezuela to two countries in which democratic regimes were destabilized-Brazil in 1964 and Chile in 1973. Democratic stability occurs when state managers are able to balance capital accumulation and consumption policies. Democratic instability occurs when state managers lack sufficient resources to satisfy the consumption demands of a mobilized working class without threatening the accumulation interests of capitalists
Class (philosophy · Compromise · Democracy · Elite · Epistemology · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Sociology · Economic Theory and Policy · Latin American socio-political dynamics · Law · Philosophy · Politics and Society in Latin America
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| Unique citing works | 23 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,68 |
| Citation span | 1992 - 2022 (31) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 23 |