State-Society Relations in Guatemala

Omar Sanchez-Sibony

doi:10.5771/9781666910100

Summary

By embedding Guatemala in recent conceptual and theoretical work in comparative politics and political economy, this volume advances knowledge about country’s politics, economy, and state-society interactions. The contributors examine the stubborn realities and challenges afflicting Guatemala during the post-Peace-Accords-era across the following subjects: the state, subnational governance, state-building, peacebuilding, economic structure and dynamics, social movements, civil-military relations, military coup dynamics, varieties of capitalism, corruption, and the level of democracy. The book deliberately avoids the perils of parochialism by placing the country within larger scholarly debates and paradigms.

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Copyright year: 2023
ISBN-Print: 978-1-6669-1009-4
ISBN-Online: 978-1-6669-1010-0
Publisher: Lexington, Lanham
Language: English
Pages: 402
Product type: Edited Book

1. Contents No access
2. 1. TABLES No access
  2. Figures No access
3. Acknowledgments No access
1. Origins of Weak State Capacity No access
2. 1. Resources No access
  2. 1. Militarization of Governance No access
  3. Mandarins No access
  4. State Coherence and Corruption Control No access
3. 1. Political Leadership, Parties, and Coalitions No access
  2. The Absence of Presidential Leadership on State-Building No access
4. Resistance or Support: Balance of Social Forces No access
5. Performance: The Importance of State Objectives No access
6. 1. Impact on Democracy No access
  2. Impact on Economic and Social Outcomes No access
7. 1. Plan of the Book No access
8. Bibliography No access
1. Introduction No access
2. 1. Guatemala’s Weak Stateness in a Central American Comparative Perspective No access
  2. 1. Hypotheses and Methodology No access
    2. Methodology No access
    3. Main Findings No access
  3. Concluding Remarks No access
3. Notes No access
4. Bibliography No access
1. 1. The Guatemalan Pattern No access
  2. Explanation and Hypotheses No access
  3. The Model and Its Predictions No access
  4. The Coup Trap in Guatemala No access
  5. Causation and Confounders No access
  6. Conclusion No access
2. Note No access
3. Bibliography No access
1. 1. Theoretical Framework No access
  2. 1. Policies and Policy Makers No access
    2. Human Rights No access
    3. Internal Security No access
    4. Defense No access
  3. 1. Constitution No access
    2. Security and Defence Act No access
    3. Military Organization Act No access
    4. Code of Military Justice No access
    5. Legislation on States of Emergency No access
  4. 1. Ministry of Defense No access
    2. Defense Staff No access
    3. National Defence/Security Council No access
    4. Congressional Defense Committee No access
  5. 1. Military Education No access
    2. Civil Experts No access
  6. 1. Social Perception of the Military No access
    2. Privileges No access
  7. 1. Strategy and Evaluation No access
    2. Transparency and Accountability No access
    3. Expenditure Volumes No access
    4. Reduction and Optimization of Number of Troops No access
    5. Types of Missions No access
    6. From Conscription to a Professionalized Army No access
  8. Conclusion No access
2. Notes No access
3. Bibliography No access
1. 1. 1. The Persistence Question: Explaining Civil War (Non)recurrence No access
    2. The Quality Question: Explaining the Postwar Hurdles to Governance and Democracy No access
  2. Constructing the Impoverished Peace: Elite Cynicism toward Guatemala’s Peace Process No access
  3. Explaining Civil War Non-Recurrence No access
  4. The Impoverished Peace and Longer-Term Governance Challenges No access
  5. Conclusion: Implications for Peacebuilding No access
2. Notes No access
3. Bibliography No access
1. Introduction No access
2. Theoretical Framework: Edward Gibson’s Subnational Authoritarianism No access
3. 1. Truncated Electoral Supply No access
  2. Unfair Elections: Disparity in Access to Financial Resources No access
  3. Intimidated and Co-opted Mass Media No access
  4. Unfree Demand: Biased Preference Formation No access
  5. Subnational Tutelary Regimes No access
  6. Fragmentation of the Political Opposition No access
  7. Incumbent Super-advantages in Access to Finance No access
  8. Co-optation of Local Security Forces No access
4. The National Congress: A Key Target of Subnational Autocrats No access
5. 1. The Weakening of the State No access
  2. State Fragmentation No access
  3. Expansion of Clientelism No access
  4. Changes in the Political Incentives Associated with Local Government No access
  5. Political Agency by Non-State Actors: Co-optation of Local Governments No access
6. Case Study: Mario Estrada Orellana and Union del Centro Nacional (UCN) No access
7. Theoretical Lessons from the Case of Guatemala No access
8. Conclusion No access
9. Bibliography No access
1. Tarrow and Power in Movement: Contributions and Claims No access
2. 1. Eco-Territorial Threats and Organizational Opportunities No access
  2. Strategic Framing No access
  3. Repertoires and Tactics No access
  4. Mobilizing Structures and Networks No access
3. Tarrow in Guatemala: Conclusions No access
4. Notes No access
5. Bibliography No access
1. 1. The Political Dynamics of Growth Episodes No access
  2. The Political Settlement: The Crucial Presence of Powerbrokers and Its Limits No access
  3. 1. The Overall Picture No access
  4. Conclusions No access
2. Bibliography No access
1. 1. The Varieties of Capitalism Approach and the Concept of Hierarchical Capitalism in Latin America No access
  2. Is Guatemalan Capitalism Hierarchical? No access
  3. Toward an Alternative Characterization of Guatemalan and Central American Capitalism16 No access
2. Conclusion No access
3. Notes No access
4. Bibliography No access
1. 1. Literature on Corruption No access
  2. 1. Recent Cases of Grand Corruption No access
    2. The “Pacto de Corruptos” and the Backlash against CICIG No access
  3. 1. Institutions No access
    2. Institutional Performance No access
    3. Organized Crime and Corruption No access
    4. The Post-Conflict Setting No access
  4. Beyond Institutions and Incentives: Lessons from the Guatemalan Case No access
  5. Conclusion No access
2. Notes No access
3. Bibliography No access
1. Introduction No access
2. The Evolution of Guatemalan Democracy: V-DEM Scores No access
3. An Actor-Based Account of Democratization: The Theory No access
4. 1. The Military’s Normative Preferences and Degree of Radicalness No access
  2. CACIF’s Normative Preferences and Degree of Radicalness No access
  3. The UNE’s Normative Preferences and Degree of Radicalness No access
  4. Evangelical Churches’ Normative Preference and Radicalness No access
  5. Guatemala’s Electoral Vehicles: Illiberal or Value-Free Political Actors No access
  6. Overall Assessment of Political Actors through Time No access
5. 1. State (In)Capacity and Democracy in Guatemala No access
  2. Regime Legacies No access
6. Guatemala Post 2016: The Rise of Coalitional Authoritarianism No access
7. Conclusion No access
8. Elite Interviews: All Carried Out in Guatemala City No access
9. Note No access
10. Bibliography No access
Index No access Pages 373 - 394
About the Editor No access Pages 395 - 396
About the Contributors No access Pages 397 - 402