Business Power and the Politics of Postneoliberalism: Relations Between Governments and Economic Elites in Bolivia and Ecuador

Autor: Jonas Wolff
Rok vydání: 2016
Předmět:
Bolivia
economic power
Wirtschaftselite
Sociology and Political Science
Core business
Economics
national state
media_common.quotation_subject
Geography
Planning and Development
internationaler Vergleich
Power (social and political)
Politics
Binnenwirtschaft
Verhältnis wirtschaftliche Akteure - Staat
Wirtschaftliches Verhalten
Wirtschaftliche Rahmenbedingungen
Ländervergleich
Bolivien
0502 economics and business
ddc:330
050602 political science & public administration
Structural power
Correa
050207 economics
media_common
economic policy
biology
05 social sciences
government
Wirtschaft
international comparison
Regierung
biology.organism_classification
0506 political science
Lateinamerika
Negotiation
economy
Latin America
wirtschaftliche Macht
Economy
Wirtschaftspolitik
Political economy
Political Science and International Relations
economic elite
Ecuador
Staat
Zdroj: Latin American Politics and Society
ISSN: 1548-2456
1531-426X
DOI: 10.1111/j.1548-2456.2016.00313.x
Popis: The article analyzes and compares the dynamics of business-government relations in Bolivia and Ecuador during the presidencies of Evo Morales and Rafael Correa. It specifically traces the shift from confrontation to rapprochement to a fairly stable pattern of negotiation and dialogue that characterizes the two governments' interaction with core business elites. Drawing on the structural and instrumental power framework developed by Tasha Fairfield, it proposes an explanation that accounts for this overall shift as well as for the main differences between the two countries. In a nutshell, the article argues that the business elites' response to a severe loss of instrumental power and the governments' response to the persistent structural power of business combined to cause the shift toward negotiation and dialogue. The article also probes the plausibility of this power-based explanation by briefly comparing the two cases with other left-of-center governments in the region.
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