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Agricultural Policy and Politics: Theory and Practice
- Michael W. Foley
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- Latin American Research Review / Volume 24 / Issue 1 / 1989
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- 12 October 2022, pp. 233-249
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Agrarian Conflict Reconsidered: Popular Mobilization and Peasant Politics in Mexico and Central America
- Michael W. Foley
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- Latin American Research Review / Volume 26 / Issue 1 / 1991
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- 12 October 2022, pp. 216-238
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Agenda for Mobilization: The Agrarian Question and Popular Mobilization in Contemporary Mexico
- Michael W. Foley
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- Latin American Research Review / Volume 26 / Issue 2 / 1991
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- 12 October 2022, pp. 39-74
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Mexican politics has long been regarded as a closed system, with policy-making dominated by the reigning president and his circle and presidential succession (with all its possibilities for change of course) managed by an only slightly larger “Revolutionary Family” of top figures in the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI). So intertwined are the Mexican state and the dominant party that scholars and opposition leaders alike have begun to speak of the “PRI state.” E. E. Schattschneider observed that in the U.S. system, 90 percent of the population never has access to the “pressure system” that directs policy choice. The percentage of the excluded is undoubtedly even larger in Mexico because the system is more decidedly “closed.” Yet in both countries, policy innovation is not uncommon. Marked changes of course have occurred at times, and opposition forces external to the system have occasionally managed to block presidential decisions and force reevaluation and sometimes painful adjustments. This article will examine the “agrarian question” in Mexico and will argue that its persistence and the ways in which it has been framed have constrained policymakers while encouraging and sustaining the development of an independent peasant movement during the 1970s and 1980s.
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- By Mitchell Aboulafia, Frederick Adams, Marilyn McCord Adams, Robert M. Adams, Laird Addis, James W. Allard, David Allison, William P. Alston, Karl Ameriks, C. Anthony Anderson, David Leech Anderson, Lanier Anderson, Roger Ariew, David Armstrong, Denis G. Arnold, E. J. Ashworth, Margaret Atherton, Robin Attfield, Bruce Aune, Edward Wilson Averill, Jody Azzouni, Kent Bach, Andrew Bailey, Lynne Rudder Baker, Thomas R. Baldwin, Jon Barwise, George Bealer, William Bechtel, Lawrence C. Becker, Mark A. Bedau, Ernst Behler, José A. Benardete, Ermanno Bencivenga, Jan Berg, Michael Bergmann, Robert L. Bernasconi, Sven Bernecker, Bernard Berofsky, Rod Bertolet, Charles J. Beyer, Christian Beyer, Joseph Bien, Joseph Bien, Peg Birmingham, Ivan Boh, James Bohman, Daniel Bonevac, Laurence BonJour, William J. Bouwsma, Raymond D. Bradley, Myles Brand, Richard B. Brandt, Michael E. Bratman, Stephen E. Braude, Daniel Breazeale, Angela Breitenbach, Jason Bridges, David O. Brink, Gordon G. 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Thomasson, Katherine Thomson-Jones, Joshua C. Thurow, Vzalerie Tiberius, Terrence N. Tice, Paul Tidman, Mark C. Timmons, William Tolhurst, James E. Tomberlin, Rosemarie Tong, Lawrence Torcello, Kelly Trogdon, J. D. Trout, Robert E. Tully, Raimo Tuomela, John Turri, Martin M. Tweedale, Thomas Uebel, Jennifer Uleman, James Van Cleve, Harry van der Linden, Peter van Inwagen, Bryan W. Van Norden, René van Woudenberg, Donald Phillip Verene, Samantha Vice, Thomas Vinci, Donald Wayne Viney, Barbara Von Eckardt, Peter B. M. Vranas, Steven J. Wagner, William J. Wainwright, Paul E. Walker, Robert E. Wall, Craig Walton, Douglas Walton, Eric Watkins, Richard A. Watson, Michael V. Wedin, Rudolph H. Weingartner, Paul Weirich, Paul J. Weithman, Carl Wellman, Howard Wettstein, Samuel C. Wheeler, Stephen A. White, Jennifer Whiting, Edward R. Wierenga, Michael Williams, Fred Wilson, W. Kent Wilson, Kenneth P. Winkler, John F. Wippel, Jan Woleński, Allan B. Wolter, Nicholas P. 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- The Cambridge Dictionary of Philosophy
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- By Zachary P. Biles, Kathryn Bosher, Eric Csapo, Helene P. Foley, Michael Fontaine, Edith Hall, Stephen Halliwell, Richard Hunter, David Konstan, Susan Lape, C. W. Marshall, Alfonso Moreno, Sebastiana Nervegna, Martin Revermann, David Kawalko Roselli, Ralph M. Rosen, Ian Ruffell, Keith Sidwell, Alan Sommerstein, Gonda Van Steen, Andreas Willi, Nigel Wilson, Victoria Wohl
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- By Eva Alcón Soler, Joe Barcroft, Martha Bigelow, Ellen Broselow, Jennifer Cabrelli Amaro, Kees de Bot, Laurent Dekydtspotter, Jean-Marc Dewaele, Giovanna Donzellii, Astrid Ensslin, Suzanne Flynn, Claire Foley, Alice Foucart, Cheryl Frenck-Mestre, María del Pilar, García Mayo, Elena Gavruseva, Kit Hansen, Roger Hawkins, Belma Haznedar, Julia Herschensohn, Randal Holme, Tania Ionin, Anna Dina L. Joaquin, Yoonjung Kang, Jan Koster, Cedric Krummes, Ryuko Kubota, Donna Lardiere, Andrea W. Mates, Elizabeth R. Miller, James Milton, Silvina Montrul, Florence Myles, Amy Snyder Ohta, Vera Regan, Jason Rothman, Bonnie D. Schwartz, Michael Sharwood Smith, Roumyana Slabakova, Rex A. Sprouse, Elaine Tarone, Margaret Thomas, Richard Towell, John Truscott, Anne Vainikka, Daniel Véronique, Melinda Whong, Wynne Wong, Clare Wright, Martha Young-Scholten
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- The Cambridge Handbook of Second Language Acquisition
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Organizing, Ideology, and Moral Suasion: Political Discourse and Action in a Mexican Town
- Michael W. Foley
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- Comparative Studies in Society and History / Volume 32 / Issue 3 / July 1990
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- 03 June 2009, pp. 455-487
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Recent scholarship on peasant protest has shifted from the speculative analysis of large-scale historical trends to the limited testing of hypotheses to a preoccupation with micro-level analysis of peasant consciousness and decision making. That shift has been salutary, sharpening our attention to the role of people's perceptions in shaping behavior and to the subtle ways in which people act out their discontent; but we still understand too little about the origins of these perceptions and about the ways in which everyday discontent gets transformed into politically viable action. The present paper argues that, while people's perceptions are grounded in their material and social situation and in past experience, they are continuously reshaped in interaction with new experience and with the claims of others. Understanding the role of political discourse in such interactions is essential to understanding popular mobilization.
Is It Time to Disinvest in Social Capital?
- Michael W. Foley, Bob Edwards
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- Journal of Public Policy / Volume 19 / Issue 2 / May 1999
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- 01 May 1999, pp. 141-173
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In an effort at theoretical clarification, the authors reviewed 45 recent articles reporting empirical research employing the concept of ‘social capital’. The literature is roughly equally divided between those who treat social capital as an independent variable and those who consider it as a dependent variable, and between those who operationalize the concept principally in terms of norms, values and attitudes and those who choose a more social structural operationalization, invoking social networks, organizations and linkages. Work on social capital as a mainly normative variable is dominated by political scientists and economists, while sociologists and a wide range of applied social scientists utilize more social structural understandings of the term. We find little to recommend in the use of ‘social capital’ to represent the norms, values and attitudes of the civic culture argument. We present empirical, methodological and theoretical arguments for the irrelevance of ‘generalized social trust’, in particular, as a significant factor in the health of democracies or economic development. Social structural interpretations of social capital, on the other hand, have demonstrated considerable capacity to draw attention to, and illuminate, the many ways in which social resources are made available to individuals and groups for individual or group benefit, which we take to be the prime focus and central attraction of the social capital concept. The paper concludes by elaborating a context-dependent conceptualization of social capital as access plus resources, and cautions against ‘over-networked’ conceptualizations that equate social capital with access alone.
Laying the Groundwork: The Struggle for Civil Society in El Salvador
- Michael W. Foley
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- Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs / Volume 38 / Issue 1 / Spring 1996
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- 02 January 2018, pp. 67-104
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- Spring 1996
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The armed conflict that wracked El Salvador from 1980 to the signing of the Peace Accords in January 1992 began and ended in a still unresolved struggle over civil society: over what expression civil society would be allowed to take, over its influence in public debate, over who would control it, and how. If the Right fought to protect its own economic power, it fought first of all on the ground of civil society, attempting by all means available to subordinate, or subdue, the forces unleashed via the wave of organizing by church groups, unions, and the Left in the 1960s (Baloyra, 1982; Lungo U., 1987; Montgomery, 1995). The targets of the famous “death squads,” which emerged well before the eruption of civil war in 1981, were preponderantly representatives of organized civil society: union leaders, teachers, community organizers, health workers, catechists. While political militants have been the most prominent among recent victims of the violence carried out by resurgent death squads, the struggle going on in El Salvador today is essentially a struggle over the character and direction of the new civil society that has arisen in the wake of the war and the Peace Accords.