Adjustment Policies, Union Structures, and Strategies of Mobilization: Teacher Politics in Mexico and Argentina

IF 2 2区 社会学 Q2 POLITICAL SCIENCE Comparative Politics Pub Date : 2021-01-01 DOI:10.5129/001041521x15918883398085
Christopher Chambers-Ju
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This article analyzes the evolving mobilizational strategies of robust unions in contemporary Latin America. The origins of these strategies are rooted in the neoliberal adjustment policies in the early 1990s that compensated and reshaped power relations in labor organizations. With union compensation, a dominant faction concentrated power and embraced instrumentalism; the union exchanged electoral support with various parties for particularistic benefits. When adjustment policies were adopted without compensation, power was dispersed in an archipelago of activists. Unions then relied on movementism, which centered on contentious demand making and resistance to partisan alliances. Comparing teachers in Mexico and Argentina, this article contributes to broader debates about the effects of democracy on contentious politics and the changing partisan identities of workers.
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调整政策、工会结构与动员策略:墨西哥与阿根廷的教师政治
本文分析了当代拉丁美洲强大工会不断发展的动员策略。这些策略的起源根植于20世纪90年代初的新自由主义调整政策,这些政策补偿和重塑了劳工组织中的权力关系。在工会的补偿下,一个占主导地位的派系集中了权力,接受了工具主义;工会与各党派交换选举支持,以换取特殊利益。在没有补偿的情况下采取调整政策时,权力分散在一群积极分子手中。然后工会依靠运动主义,集中在有争议的需求提出和对党派联盟的抵制。通过比较墨西哥和阿根廷的教师,本文对民主对有争议的政治的影响以及工人党派身份的变化进行了更广泛的讨论。
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Comparative Politics
Comparative Politics POLITICAL SCIENCE-
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期刊介绍: Comparative Politics, an international journal presenting scholarly articles devoted to the comparative analysis of political institutions and processes,communicates new ideas and research findings to social scientists, scholars, students, and public and NGO officials. The journal is indispensable to experts in universities, research organizations, foundations, embassies, and policymaking agencies throughout the world.
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