P. Rushton, E. Royle, J. England, Jonathan Rose, I. Scott, Brian Shaev
In contemporary Latin America, the euphoria that accompanied initial democratization has now been transformed into concern about whether these democracies can truly be “consolidated.” This book is an important contribution to this discussion. Among the editors’ most notable accomplishments is their success in simultaneously encouraging intellectual creativity on the part of contributors and pulling these contributions together in an interesting way. Seeking alternately to explain the sustainability of Latin American democracies, their relative quality, or both, the articles included here explore both troubled and relatively more successful democratic regimes. Approaches and findings vary, but collectively, the book makes an excellent contribution to furthering the understanding of these issues. The book is organized into three main sections, categorizing countries according to the apparent success of their democracies. Three conceptual pieces frame these case studies: Mainwaring and Hagopian’s introduction, a more extensive theoretical chapter by Mainwaring and Aníbal Pérez-Liñán, and Hagopian’s conclusion. Each of these essays goes well beyond a mere exercise in integration, which, in turn, implies some divergence among their arguments. The key differences between the conceptual pieces relate to two factors: first, whether the authors focus only on democratic survival or whether they also address quality; and second, how much impact they consider socioeconomic or institutional “structures” and government performance to have on democratic outcomes. Both the introduction and the conclusion look at democratic stability, with political attitudes as the major explanation. Thus, Mainwaring and Hagopian downplay factors such as socioeconomic structure and relative economic success, emphasizing instead the impact of “political factors” on democratic sustainability, especially the attitudes of domestic or international actors. These factors, they argue, can ultimately overcome low economic development, inequality, and poor governmental performance (p. 7). Hagopian’s conclusion similarly emphasizes the importance of political attitudes for explaining democratic stability, but here she portrays attitudes as contingent on effective representation. According to Hagopian,
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This article examines the contribution of photography to the recognition of the unemployed during the 1930s. It focuses on the role of French photomagazines, most notably Vu and Regards. Providing ...
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This article examines the photographic depiction of factory gates during the strikes of May and June 1968 in France. These photographs form a distinctive subset of images of May 1968, offering a ke...
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This essay examines the twofold problem of ‘visualizing labour’. A first part of the problem is the status of ‘labour’ and its relationship with ‘work’. A second issue is the status of ‘visualizati...
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{"title":"Obituary: J.F.C. Harrison (1921–2018)","authors":"M. Chase","doi":"10.3828/LHR.2019.4","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/LHR.2019.4","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43028,"journal":{"name":"Labour History Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44632478","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
During the early 1950s, much of the debate within the Workers’ Educational Association (WEA) concerned the direction of the organization. Sidney G. Raybould, director of the Leeds extramural depart...
{"title":"‘The Great Debate’: Welfarism, Objectivity, and Cold War Ideology in the Workers’ Educational Association","authors":"Christos Efstathiou","doi":"10.3828/LHR.2019.3","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/LHR.2019.3","url":null,"abstract":"During the early 1950s, much of the debate within the Workers’ Educational Association (WEA) concerned the direction of the organization. Sidney G. Raybould, director of the Leeds extramural depart...","PeriodicalId":43028,"journal":{"name":"Labour History Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2019-04-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3828/LHR.2019.3","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47422087","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This article examines the impact of the first fascist power, Italy, on Irish working-class opinion in the early years of the independent Irish state. While labour had played an important role in th...
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Best known for her role in the Jarrow Crusade or as minister of education in the post-war Attlee government, Ellen Wilkinson’s pre-Jarrow parliamentary career has often been subject to only cursory...
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{"title":"The Boosting and Moulding of Anger: Swedish Social Democratic Emotional Policy from the 1880s to the 1980s","authors":"Jens Ljunggren","doi":"10.3828/LHR.2018.12","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3828/LHR.2018.12","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":43028,"journal":{"name":"Labour History Review","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.3,"publicationDate":"2018-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.3828/LHR.2018.12","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46260755","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"历史学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
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