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ON THE BASIS OF AN ANALYSIS OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE STATE AND ORGANIZED LABOR IN LATIN AMERICA, THIS ARTICLE ARGUES THAT THE CONCEPT OF CORPORATISM CAN BE DISAGGREGATED TO SHED LIGHT ON DIFFERENT POWER RELATIONSHIPS AND POLITICAL CONTEXTS. THE ANALYSIS FOCUSES ON THE DISTINCTION BETWEEN "INDUCEMENTS" AND "CONSTRAINTS" IN STATE CONTROL OF GROUPS.

This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press's mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1982

The question of whether democratization is an elite-led process from above or a popular triumph from below continues to be an area of contention among political scientists. Examining the experiences of countries which have provided the main empirical base for recent theorizing, namely, Western Europe and South America in the 19th and early 20th centuries and again in the 1970s and 1980s, this book delineates a more complex and varied set of patterns. The volume explores the politics of democratization through a comparative analysis that examines the role of labor in relation to elite strategies in both contemporary and historical perspectives. In her detailed analysis, Professor Collier also describes multiple patterns within each historical period, challenges conventional understandings of these events, and recaptures a role for unions and labor-based parties in contemporary processes of democratization

The current techno - economic transformation, or Algorithmic Revolution, has wide - ranging consequences for society, posing many challenges of economic policy. At a macro level, it has been associated with rising inequality, "disruption" of many economic sectors, and the destruction of many jobs as well as the creation of others, with still unknown net effects. At the micro level, it has generated a particular type of employment relations: while the industrial revolution was associated with wage labor, often in large concentrations of workers, the current revolution is associated with a shift from employees to what might be called micro - entrepreneurs, who are often widely dispersed. This paper addresses the political effects of these transformations — specifically the effects on the structure of popular interest representation regarding these policies of economic regulation. These changes may be profoundly affecting the nature of mass democracy in the 21st century, or Democracy 2.0. The new worlds of work, by atomizing workers and challenging unions, makes collective action more difficult, particularly around "productionist" policies — micro and macroeconomic outcomes of the techno - economic transformation a s it unfolds . A host of important questions are raised. What role can unions still play in addressing these issues? Can other organizations, which have emerged around other kinds of issues, engage economic or productionist policies effectively? What is the role of social media in coordinating action not only for protest but also for organizing and providing policy input? Through raising these questions, this paper proposes an agenda of comparative research for examining the capacity of citizens to engage the policies that may guide the goals of technology development, how technology is implemented, and how its social and economic consequences are regulated