2017/02/22 by Eduardo Silva · 56 citations
Social Sciences · #Corporatism #Democracy #Economic system #Economics #Intermediation #Latin American socio-political dynamics #Law #Neoliberalism (international relations) #Opposition (politics) #Political economy #Political science #Politics #Politics and Society in Latin America #Social movement #Sociology
paper · doi:10.1177/0032329216683166
published in Politics & Society 45(1), 91-122 (SAGE Publishing)
openalex publication_date 2017/02/22 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/05/21
Bolivia, Ecuador, and Venezuela are cases in which, despite of the collapse of party systems, the fragmentation of popular sectors, and the dismantling of corporatism that resulted from neoliberal reforms, a new mode of incorporation nonetheless emerged. This article argues that left government responses to the demands of heterogeneous, mobilized, popular sectors shaped a new incorporation in the political arena. In it governments deal differentially with the proliferation of politically significant popular sectors and subaltern social groups. This segmented popular interest intermediation is explained by the interaction of three broad conditions: the configuration of popular sector forces and their linkages to left parties when they took office after the crisis of neoliberalism, the ideational frames of said parties’ leadership, and the dynamics of opposition and support for the regime’s project. The new incorporation establishes a new normal in the relationship of popular sectors to politics in democratic regimes.