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Sustaining Civil Society

Name: Sustaining Civil Society
Brand: Pennsylvania State University Press
SKU: 04564718
Price: 49.89 EUR
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by Philip Oxhorn

Language: English
Binding: Paperback
Number of pages: 296
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2014
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Book synopsis

"South America is not the poorest continent in the world, but it may very well be the most unjust." This statement by Ricardo Lagos, then president of Chile, at the Summit of the Americas in January 2004 captures nicely the dilemma that faces Latin American countries in the wake of the transition to democracy that swept across the continent in the last two decades of the twentieth century. While political rights are now available to citizens at unprecedented levels, social and economic rights lag far behind, and the fledgling democracies struggle with long legacies of poverty, inequality, and corruption. Key to understanding what is happening in Latin America today is the relationship between the state and civil society. In this ambitious book, Philip Oxhorn sets forth a theory of civil society adequate for explaining current developments in a way that such controversial neoconservative theories as Francis Fukuyama's liberal triumphalism or Samuel Huntington's "clash of civilizations" cannot. Inspired by the rich political sociology of an earlier era and the classic work of T. H. Marshall on citizenship, Oxhorn studies the process by which social groups are incorporated, or not, into national socioeconomic and political development through an approach that focuses on the "social construction of citizenship."

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Book category Books in English Society & social sciences Politics & government Political control & freedoms

49.89 €

Full title: Sustaining Civil Society
Subtitle: Economic Change, Democracy, and the Social Construction of Citizenship in Latin America
Author: Philip Oxhorn
Language: English
Binding: Paperback
Number of pages: 296
EAN: 9780271048956
ISBN: 0271048956
ID: 04564718
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
Weight: 472 g
Dimensions: 173 × 229 × 18 mm
Date of publishing: 15. April 2014