Foundations of Class Compromise: A Theoretical Basis for Understanding Diverse Patterns of Regime Outcomes

Neuhouser, Kevin

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Sociological Theory

1993

DOI: 10.2307/201982

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Foundations of Class Compromise: A Theoretical Basis for Understanding Diverse Patterns of Regime Outcomes

Kevin Neuhouser¹

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U.S.‐MEXICO Trade Liberalization and Its Effects on Small‐scale Enterprises in Two Distinct Regions: West Central Mexico and the Texas Border Region Compared

Spener

1996

International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy

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As has been widely recognized in the literature, the post‐war economic boom which drew to a close by the early 1970s has been followed by an intense period of industrial restructuring characterized by marked instability in all three major spheres of economic activity: production, distribution, and finance. This process has taken place both at the global level and at the level of national economies (Cardenas, 1990). It reflects a profound change in the mode of capitalist accumulation. Prior to the current round of restructuring, accumulation was taken to be principally the inward‐oriented task of each nation's own economy. Now, it seems that successful capital accumulation (i.e. development) depends most upon a nation's competitive integration into the world market for goods and services (Garrido, 1995). The present mode of accumulation implies an opening of national economies to international trade in commodities and capital, both among the advanced industrial nations and between the industrialized and the newly‐industrializing countries. This has generated a heightened degree of competition among countries and among firms, given that the easy movement of capital, goods, and services has allowed for real competition to emerge among dispersed places around the globe based upon their comparative financial and productive advantages.

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U.S.‐MEXICO Trade Liberalization and Its Effects on Small‐scale Enterprises in Two Distinct Regions: West Central Mexico and the Texas Border Region Compared

Spener

1996

International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy

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Limits on Authoritarian Imposition of Policy

Neuhouser

1996

Comparative Political Studies

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Does regime type affect policy outcomes? Do authoritarian regimes have greater policy discretion than democratic regimes? The empirical evidence is ambiguous. Using two cases of failed military populism in Ecuador, the author argues that two authoritarian characteristics—lack of participation in decision making and nonmobilization—frustrated implementation of import substitution policies. Ironically, groups expected to benefit most—industrialists and urban workers—provided the principal opposition. Although the regime needed their cooperation to implement policy, neither group had assurance that its interests were protected. Thus political alliances require more than an exchange of policies for support; regimes must make their commitments credible by permitting the participation in decision making and mobilization of groups whose cooperation is needed for policy implementation. This conclusion is supported by a comparison to Peru (where a military regime encountered similar obstacles) and Argentina (where a democratically elected military officer, Perón, was able to implement import substitution policies).

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Land Question in Contemporary Kerala, India: Conflict over Plantation Land at Chengara

Vipitha

2023

Contemporary Voice of Dalit

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The article broadly discusses significant debates around the Kerala Model of Development. The question of land redistribution and the significance of land as a vital resource ensuring upward mobility has been widely discussed since the land reform. The land reform of Kerala was reduced merely to a tenancy reform in which the dalits were offered not agricultural land but only homestead land for their mere survival. Landless people, often under the banner of dalit and adivasi organizations, conducted several important land struggles, effectively rejecting the solution of responsibilized welfare proffered by Panchayati Raj institutions. In this debate, the question of the inability of Kerala’s celebrated land reforms to redistribute hugely—concentrated plantation land came into prominence. Some of the most spectacular land struggles, such as those at Chengara and Aralam involved direct action by squatters to occupy plantation land. There were either struggle for access to land or struggle against forced dispossession. These struggles are mostly outside the formal sphere of politics and often regarded with hostility by entrenched political forces, at least in the initial phases. The article looks at the Chengara land struggle in which the squatter poor (landless) and the plantation workers were pitted against each other when the landless started illegally and forcefully settling in the plantation land of Harrisons Malayalam. The marginalization and exploitation faced by the two groups, their sharing and differences in various ways are analysed in this article. The work also questions certain characterizations of plantation workers, which portrayed them as enjoying considerable well-being. The broad framework of compromises—class compromise and caste compromise—is applied in analysing the opposition of the two groups to each other.

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Foundations of Class Compromise: A Theoretical Basis for Understanding Diverse Patterns of Regime Outcomes

Cited by 5 publications

References 36 publications

U.S.‐MEXICO Trade Liberalization and Its Effects on Small‐scale Enterprises in Two Distinct Regions: West Central Mexico and the Texas Border Region Compared

U.S.‐MEXICO Trade Liberalization and Its Effects on Small‐scale Enterprises in Two Distinct Regions: West Central Mexico and the Texas Border Region Compared

Limits on Authoritarian Imposition of Policy

Land Question in Contemporary Kerala, India: Conflict over Plantation Land at Chengara

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