Author: Jonathan Fox
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 1993
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 9780801427169
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Compares a range of Mexican food policy reforms, focusing on the SAM (Mexican Food System), a program in place from 1980-82, designed to shift subsidies and privileged access from large private farmers and ranchers to peasants and small producers. In this context, Fox (political science, MIT) examines the limits and possibilities of political reform, and its history and future in the Mexican state. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author: Evelyne Huber
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Pre
Published: 2010-11-23
Total Pages: 251
ISBN-13: 082297472X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The troubled history of democracy in Latin America has been the subject of much scholarly commentary. This volume breaks new ground by systematically exploring the linkages among the historical legacies of large landholding patterns, agrarian class relations, and authoritarian versus democratic trajectories in Latin American countries. The essays address questions about the importance of large landownders for the national economy, the labor needs and labor relations of these landowners, attempts of landowners to enlist the support of the state to control labor, and the democratic forms of rule in the twentieth century.
Author: Susan R. Walsh Sanderson
Publisher: Elsevier
Published: 2013-09-11
Total Pages: 209
ISBN-13: 1483272311
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Land Reform in Mexico: 1910–1980 presents the workings of the Mexican government by analyzing actual policies, their implementation, and their outcomes in a significant and central sector of the Mexican economy, agriculture. This book discusses the pattern of Mexican redistribution policy in agriculture over an extensive period of time, with emphasis on the causes and effects of these policy shifts. Organized into eight chapters, this book begins with an overview of the agricultural policy and modernization strategy of Mexico. This text then relates regional variations in the rural social structure of the late 19th century to the history of Mexico's unique agricultural policy. Other chapters consider the policy shifts reflected in agrarian legislation by presidential period. This book discusses as well the politics of land reform and its linkages to local, state, and national administrations. The final chapter deals with the status of agricultural policy in Mexico during the 1980s. This book is a valuable resource for scholar and students with interest in Mexican politics.
Author: Roger D. Hansen
Publisher: Baltimore : Johns Hopkins Press
Published: 1971
Total Pages: 298
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Study of political leadership and economic growth in Mexico from 1935 to 1970 - covers foreign investment, industrial development, rural development, income distribution, land tenure, agrarian reform, political partys, employment, the balance of payments, etc. Bibliography pp. 239 to 248, references and statistical tables.
Author: Gerardo Otero
Publisher: Westview Press
Published: 1999-05-06
Total Pages: 202
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Focusing on three Mexican agricultural regions from the 1930s to the present, Gerardo Otero's Farewell to the Peasantry? Political Class Formation in Rural Mexico offers a strikingly new analysis of the intersection of class relations, political mobilization, and regionally varying cultural heritage in rural Mexico. With the prevailing agrarian social structure as his backdrop, Otero examines the social and political circumstances under which different regions have evolved, and the transformations in class structure that have resulted. Otero maintains that political class formation is the fundamental process by which civil society is constructed, and a vital part in the transition toward a societal democracy. Otero also addresses Mexico's legendary agrarian reform program, arguing that land redistribution was enacted by the leaders of Mexico specifically because of its power to entrench capitalism in the modern Mexican state. Avoiding unidirectional or single-factor approaches in favor of presenting a broader spectrum, Farewell to the Peasantry? Political Class Formation in Rural Mexico will interest serious academics and casual readers alike.
Author: Jonathan Fox
Publisher:
Published:
Total Pages: 295
ISBN-13: 9780608208909
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Compares a range of Mexican food policy reforms, focusing on the SAM (Mexican Food System), a program in place from 1980-82, designed to shift subsidies and privileged access from large private farmers and ranchers to peasants and small producers. In this context, Fox (political science, MIT) examines the limits and possibilities of political reform, and its history and future in the Mexican state. Annotation copyright by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Author: Gabriel Ondetti
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2010-11-01
Total Pages: 304
ISBN-13: 0271047844
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Brazil is a country of extreme inequalities, one of the most important of which is the acute concentration of rural land ownership. In recent decades, however, poor landless workers have mounted a major challenge to this state of affairs. A broad grassroots social movement led by the Movement of Landless Rural Workers (MST) has mobilized hundreds of thousands of families to pressure authorities for land reform through mass protest. This book explores the evolution of the landless movement from its birth during the twilight years of Brazil&’s military dictatorship through the first government of Luiz In&ácio Lula da Silva. It uses this case to test a number of major theoretical perspectives on social movements and engages in a critical dialogue with both contemporary political opportunity theory and Mancur Olson&’s classic economic theory of collective action. Ondetti seeks to explain the major moments of change in the landless movement's growth trajectory: its initial emergence in the late 1970s and early 80s, its rapid takeoff in the mid-1990s, its acute but ultimately temporary crisis in the early 2000s, and its resurgence during Lula's first term in office. He finds strong support for the influential, but much-criticized political opportunity perspective. At the same time, however, he underscores some of the problems with how political opportunity has been conceptualized in the past. The book also seeks to shed light on the anomalous fact that the landless movement continued to expand in the decade following the restoration of Brazilian democracy in 1985 despite the general trend toward social-movement decline. His argument, which highlights the unusual structure of incentives involved in the struggle for land in Brazil, casts doubt on a key assumption underlying Olson's theory.