POLS 241 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Capital Accumulation, Unintended Consequences, Comparative Politics
18 Sep 2013
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Pols241 week 3 readings in textbook arguing comparative politics (chapter 3- state power and the strength of civil society in the southern cone of latin america) Regimes currently having problems of political legitimacy and an inability to deal with the international economic context of the 1980s. At the same time however initiatives for change are coming increasingly from within civil society. Chile, argentina, uruguay and brazil: all began with periods in which the institutions of civil society, were emasculated while the state enhanced its ability to pursue its own goals. Growth of state power, and the decline of civil society in chile (1973-1981) All these factors made it difficult for the opposition to make any moves against the regime. Tariffs were reduced thereby robbing the national industrial bourgeoisie of protection from imported manufactured goods. This resulted in the reduction of the industrial working class.
