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  • 16 - Internal Structure of the Neoliberal State

  • from Part V - Conclusions
  • Edited by Miguel A. Centeno, Princeton University, New Jersey, Agustin E. Ferraro, Universidad de Salamanca, Spain
  • Book:
    State and Nation Making in Latin America and Spain
    Published online:
    03 August 2023
    Print publication:
    17 August 2023, pp 495-534

  • Summary

    This concluding chapter of the book discusses whether the neoliberal state can be described as a specific institutional configuration. We do not take for granted that the neoliberal state represents a real historical phenomenon or a conceptually consistent state model. The chapter instead asks these questions precisely. Can we find theoretical and empirical validation for the neoliberal state as a historical and sociological type? To address the issue, the chapter begins by discussing the concept of “internal structure” of the state, which was established by German scholar Otto Hintze as the foundational principle for state-building as a discipline. The chapter compares the neoliberal state to other state formations: the liberal state of the nineteenth century and the developmental state of the twentieth century. In contrast to the neoliberal state, these two other state formations are generally accepted as valid historical and sociological types by the scholarly literature. Finally, the chapter summarizes empirical results and theoretical discussions introduced by the previous chapters of the volume, as well as additional empirical research, in order to find whether neoliberal states in Latin America and Spain have demonstrated their own specific characteristics of internal structure in the sense of Hintze discussed at the beginning of the chapter.

  • 1 - The Neoliberal State in Latin America

  • from Part I - Introduction
  • Edited by Miguel A. Centeno, Princeton University, New Jersey, Agustin E. Ferraro, Universidad de Salamanca, Spain
  • Book:
    State and Nation Making in Latin America and Spain
    Published online:
    03 August 2023
    Print publication:
    17 August 2023, pp 3-64

  • Summary

    A voluminous literature has explored the origins and consequences of neoliberal public policy. However, the question of whether scholars can identify a distinctly neoliberal state formation remains under discussion. This introductory chapter begins to offer an answer by first describing neoliberal reforms throughout Latin America, challenging conventional understandings of the period. For example, while the region did see a turn toward export-driven growth, the retrenchment in state spending often associated with neoliberalism did not occur. The chapter continues by providing brief case studies describing how neoliberal policies were implemented within individual countries, underscoring the difficulty of speaking of a regional model of neoliberal reform. The chapter then turns to the question of state capacity by introducing the four dimensions of state power that provide the organizing framework for the remaining chapters of the volume: economic, territorial, infrastructural, and symbolic power. Following a series of brief synopses of the individual chapters contained within the present volume, the introductory chapter concludes by suggesting that while there were general regional patterns in terms of policy, each individual state remained “neoliberal” in its own idiosyncratic way.

State and Nation Making in Latin America and Spain
  • The Neoliberal State and Beyond
  • Volume 3
  • Edited by Miguel A. Centeno, Agustin E. Ferraro
  • Published online:
    03 August 2023
    Print publication:
    17 August 2023
  • Neoliberalism is often studied as a political ideology, a government program, and even as a pattern of cultural identities. However, less attention is paid to the specific institutional resources employed by neoliberal administrations, which have resulted in the configuration of a neoliberal state model. This accessible volume compiles original essays on the neoliberal era in Latin America and Spain, exploring subjects such as neoliberal public policies, power strategies, institutional resources, popular support, and social protest. The book focuses on neoliberalism as a state model: a configuration of public power designed to implement radical policy proposals. This is the third volume in the State and Nation Making in Latin America and Spain series, which aims to complete and advance research and knowledge about national states in Latin America and Spain.

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