State and Nation Making in Latin America and Spain: Volume 3
The Neoliberal State and Beyond

An original study of neoliberalism as a state model: a power structure configured to implement radical policy proposals.

Miguel A. Centeno (Edited by), Agustin E. Ferraro (Edited by)

9781108836906, Cambridge University Press

Hardback, published 17 August 2023

554 pages
28 x 19 x 3.2 cm, 0.913 kg

Neoliberalism is often studied as a political ideology, a government program, and even as a pattern of cultural identities. However, less attention is paid to the specific institutional resources employed by neoliberal administrations, which have resulted in the configuration of a neoliberal state model. This accessible volume compiles original essays on the neoliberal era in Latin America and Spain, exploring subjects such as neoliberal public policies, power strategies, institutional resources, popular support, and social protest. The book focuses on neoliberalism as a state model: a configuration of public power designed to implement radical policy proposals. This is the third volume in the State and Nation Making in Latin America and Spain series, which aims to complete and advance research and knowledge about national states in Latin America and Spain.

Part I. Introduction: 1. 'The Neoliberal State in Latin America' John Maldonado, Diego-Ayala McCormick, Miguel A. Centeno, and Agustin E. Ferraro
Part II. Economic and Territorial Power: 2. 'The Chilean Neoliberal State: Origins, Evolution and Contestation, 1973–2020' Patricio Silva
3. 'State, Society and the Neoliberal Turn in Mexico, c. 1980–c. 2000' Alan Knight
4. 'Rise of the Neoliberal State in Spain? Fiscal Shortcomings of a Popular Narrative' Lars Döpking
5. 'Guatemala: States and Homicidal Ecologies'
Part III. Infrastructural Power: Reform Strategies: 6. 'Two Roads of Neoliberal Reform in Higher Education: Chile and Peru in Comparative Perspective' Gabriela Camacho and Eduardo Dargent
7. 'Reinvented Governments in Latin America: Reform Waves and Diverging Outcomes' Luis L. Schenoni
8. 'The Devil Hides in the Details: Variations of Conditional Cash Transfers Programs in Latin America' Luciana de Souza Leão
9. 'The Paradox of 'Successful' Reform: The Transformation of Transportation Institutions in Brazil, Argentina, and Chile, 1990-2014' Katherine Bersch
10. 'Post Neoliberalism and Enduring Inequalities: the Challenges of Rebuilding the Neoliberal State after Crisis' Pia Riggirozzi and Jean Grugel
Part IV. Symbolic Power: Identities and Social Protest: 11. 'Women are the Social Face of the State.' Gender and the Social Uprising in Neoliberal Chile 2019–2021 Verónica Schild
12. 'Party Landscape and Political Protest. The Consequences of Neoliberal Economic Policy for Spanish Democracy' Philipp Müller
13. 'Redefining Labor Organizing: Coalitions between Labor Unions and Social Movements of Outsider Workers' Candelaria Garay
14. 'Locating Neoliberalism in Abiayala: A View from Indigenous Studies' José Antonio Lucero
15. 'Resisting Neoliberalism? Territorial Autonomy Movements in the Iberian World' Matthias vom Hau and Hana Srebotnjak
Part V. Conclusions: 16. 'Internal Structure of the Neoliberal State. Power and Public Policy in Latin America and Spain, 1973–2000' Agustín E. Ferraro, Gustavo Fondevila, Juan José Rastrollo, and Miguel A. Centeno.

Subject Areas: Constitution: government & the state [JPHC]