Browsing by Author "Filgueira, Fernando"

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    Incorporation Crisis in Latin America: The limits of "Conservative Modernization"
    (FLACSO-MEXICO, 2012) Filgueira, Fernando; Reygadas, Luis; Pablo Luna, Juan; Alegre, Pablo
    This article explores the incorporation crisis that occurred in Latin America at the end of the twentieth century as a result of: changes in the economic model, the durability of electoral democracies and of inequalities; increasing expectations related to educational mobility, and the dissemination of new patterns of consumption. It is argued that this type of crisis can be best understood as an epochal change of "conservative modernization". It is also argued that this change is at the basis of the shift to the Left in present day Latin America.
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    Societies, Social Policies, and Political Representation: A Latin American Perspective
    (SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD, 2009) Filgueira, Fernando; Pablo Luna, Juan
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    The Left Turns as Multiple Paradigmatic Crises
    (ROUTLEDGE JOURNALS, TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD, 2009) Luna, Juan Pablo; Filgueira, Fernando
    The left turns represent a 'second incorporation crisis' for Latin American countries. The discontent emerging from the effects of market reforms implemented in the context of weak states and highly unequal societies has fuelled this crisis, along with citizens' widespread alienation with traditional parties and political elites. The left turns also yield three interrelated paradigmatic crises: one relates to political and economic praxis in the region, another concerns academic interpretations of the political economy of democracy and development for Latin America, and yet another concerns policy-making prescriptions. The failure to predict the left turn epitomises conventional wisdom's shortsightedness, which is also present in the now dominant interpretations on the current governing lefts in the region. A normative predilection for market economies and liberal democracy embedded in the theoretical and methodological toolbox of dominant approaches causes this myopia. The paper justifies this diagnostic and derives implications for future research.