The Social Foundations of Latin America’s Recurrent Populism: Problems for Class Formation and Collective Action
Author(s)
Oxhorn, P.
Abstract
Latin America’s political instability may be caused by a heterogeneous class formation characterizing popular sectors that creates collective action problems. Popular sectors could be mobilized through a neo-Marxist interpretation of class formation that would encourage democratic consolidation. Emphasizing where people live and what they produce could form the basis for a popular sector collective identity representing a totalizing synthesis of Latin America’s social heterogeneity.
