The State and Society: Peru in Comparative Perspective

✍ Scribed by Alfred C. Stepan

• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Year: 2015
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 368
• Series: Princeton Legacy Library; 1832
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Although the state's role in society has clearly expanded since the 1930s, its independent effect on social structure and change has been given little weight in modern political theories. To bring theory more into line with reality, Stepan proposes a new model of state autonomy which he shows to be particularly well suited for understanding political developments in the Iberian countries and their former Latin-American colonies.

Originally published in 1978.

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✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Contents
List of Tables and Figures
Preface
Part 1. The Role of the State: Concepts and Comparisons
1. Liberal-Pluralist, Classic Marxist, and "Organic-Statist" Approaches to the State
2. "Corporatism" and the State
3. The Installation of Corporatist Regimes: Analytic
Framework and Comparative Analysis
Part 2. Peru: An Organic-Statist Experiment
4. Evolution of the Peruvian Army as the Strategic State Elite: Context and Content
5. Organizing the Weakly Organized: The State and Urban Squatters
6. Reorganizing the Organized: Statism Versus "Participatory" Self-Management in the Sugar Cooperatives
7. The State and Foreign Capital
8. The Institutionalization of Organic-Statist Regimes
Selected Bibliography
Index