Origins of the mass party : dispossession and the party-form in Mexico and Bolivia /

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Author / Creator:	Ackerman, Edwin, author.
Imprint:	New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2022]
Description:	ix, 197 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm
Language:	English
Subject:	Partido Revolucionario Institucional. Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario (Bolivia) Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario (Bolivia) Partido Revolucionario Institucional. Political parties -- Mexico -- History. Political parties -- Bolivia -- History. Political parties. Bolivia. Mexico. History.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12634520

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ISBN:	9780197576502 0197576508 9780197576526
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:	"This book argues that the mass party emerged as the product of two distinct but related 'primitive accumulations' - the dismantling of communal land tenure and the corresponding dispossession of means of local administration. It illustrates this argument by studying the party central to one of the longest regimes of the 20th century - the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) in Mexico, which emerged as a mass party during the 1930s and 1940s. I place the PRI in comparative perspective, studying the failed emergence of Bolivsia's Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario (MNR) (1952-1964), attempted under similar conditions as the Mexican case. Why was party emergence successful in one case but not the other? As the book shows, the PRI emerged as a mass party in areas in Mexico where land privatization was more intensive and communal village government was weakened, enabling the party's construction and subsequent absorption of peasant unions and organizations. To the extent that the MNR's saw organizational successes, these were limited precisely to areas in Bolivia with similar agrarian structures as those where the PRI succeeded in Mexico. Ultimately, the overall strength of communal property holding and concomitant traditional political authority structures blocked the emergence of the MNR as a mass party. In the parts of Mexico and Bolivia where economic and political expropriation was more pronounced, there was a critical mass of individuals available for political organization, with articulatable interests, and a burgeoning cast of professional politicians, that facilitated connections between the party and the peasantry. The opposite occurred in the areas of the countries were communal property and governmental forms were stronger"--
Other form:	Online version: F. Ackerman, Edwin. Origins of the mass party New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2022 9780197576526

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Part I. Theories of Party Formation
1. Mexico and Bolivia in Comparative Perspective and the Sociology of Party Formation
2. Dispossession and the Mass Party
Part II. Mexico and Bolivia in Comparative Perspective
3. The Emergence of the PRI in Mexico
4. The Failure of Party Formation in Bolivia
Part III. Broader Implications
5. Dispossession and Party Formation in Broader Comparative Perspective: Germany's SPD and the (Absent) British Labour Party
Conclusion
Appendix
Notes
References
Index

Origins of the mass party : dispossession and the party-form in Mexico and Bolivia /

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