POL305Y1 Lecture : Latin Jan 7th.docx
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Ii economic adjustment: stabilization: immediate short term measures do reduce budget imbalances and inflation levels: currency devaluation, price controls and reduction of consumer subsidies, structural adjustment: long term policies that retract the state from its role in the economy; privatization trade liberalization and opening economy to foreign investment, social atomization hypothesis there has been substantial decline in the capacity of traditional social actors to organize actors to organize and mobilize as a result of market reforms. Iii pathways to change: electoral politics: the parliamentary road to social and political reform working within the system ex: ecuador: indigenous pachatutik party, bolivias indigenous and worker movement toward socialism, brazil"s social management workers party, direct action: the revolutionary road to social change (working from outside the system) ex mexico zapatistas, brazil"s pesant based rural landless movement mst, argentina"s unemployed workers movement, chile"s student movement, local development: capturing and transforming local level power by working with municipalities to bring about change.
