{"product_id":"free-market-democracy-and-the-chilean-and-mexican-countryside","title":"Free Market Democracy and the Chilean and Mexican Countryside","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis book examines the relationship between free markets and democracy. It demonstrates how the implementation of even very painful free-market economic reforms in Chile and Mexico have helped to consolidate democratic politics without engendering a backlash against either reform or democratization. This national-level compatibility between free markets and democracy, however, is founded on their rural incompatibility. In the countryside, free-market reforms socially isolate peasants to such a degree that they become unable to organize independently, and are vulnerable to the pressures of local economic elites. This helps to create an electoral coalition behind free-market reforms that is critically based in some of the market's biggest victims: the peasantry. The book concludes that the comparatively stable free-market democracy in Latin America hinges critically on its defects in the countryside; conservative, free-market elites may consent to open politics only if they have a rural electoral redoubt.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46647588520174,"sku":"9780521534741","price":52.34,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0630\/9612\/7726\/files\/9780521534741.jpg?v=1750175022","url":"https:\/\/bookland.com.au\/products\/free-market-democracy-and-the-chilean-and-mexican-countryside","provider":"Book Land AU","version":"1.0","type":"link"}