Labor and the state in a party-mediated democracy: Institutional change in Venezuela

In: Latin American research review: LARR ; the journal of the Latin American Studies Association (LASA), Band 24, Heft 2, S. 35-67

Abstract

While much attention has been paid to state-group relations in the context of abrupt regime change, it is useful to examine the patterns of interest mediation in a stable democracy by looking at state-party-labor relations in Venezuela since 1958. The transition from a primarily party-mediated model of labor incorporation to a model providing a larger role for the state in the mediation of class relations can be demonstrated by tracing the patterns of inducements and constraints on labor, particularly by looking at new institutional, organizational, and juridical forms