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Reinventing the left in the global South : the politics of the possible
\"This book offers a fresh appraisal of the nature and significance of the democratic left in the Global South. The moral and intellectual leadership of the left is shifting south from its European birthplace. It is in the Global South, and most notably in Latin America, that one finds newly self-confident progressive movements. This 'new' democratic left includes parties and social movements that not only are avoiding the familiar pitfalls that ensnared socialists and social democrats in the twentieth century, but also are coping with the realities of the twenty-first century, especially neoliberal globalization. In analyzing and illustrating three innovative strategies - moderate social democracy, radical social-democratic transition to socialism, and Left populism - this study nudges the debate about the Left out of the well-worn grooves into which it has fallen in recent decades\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Civilizing Globalization, Revised and Expanded Edition
Is it possible to harness the benefits of economic globalization
without sacrificing social equity, ecological sustainability, and
democratic governance? The first edition of Civilizing
Globalization (2003) explored this question at a time of
widespread popular discontent. This fully revised and expanded
edition comes at an equally crucial juncture. The period of
relative stability and prosperity in the world economy that
followed the release of the first edition ended abruptly in 2008
with a worldwide economic crisis that illustrated in dramatic
fashion the enduring problems with our global order. Yet despite
the gravity of the challenges, concrete initiatives for change
remain insubstantial. Richard Sandbrook and Ali Burak Güven bring
together international scholars and veteran activists to discuss in
clear, nontechnical language the innovative political strategies,
participatory institutional frameworks, and feasible regulatory
designs capable of taming global markets so that they assume the
role of useful servants rather than tyrannical masters.
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The Democratic Left in the Southern Hemisphere
With a democratic left unable to propose changes consistent programs against capitalist crisis, the moral and intellectual leadership of the left is moving from the Western strongholds in the south. In this context, part of Latin America is going through a leftist populism, but keeps in common with classical populism, presents a different picture. At the same time, it seems a more feasible alternative to the radical social transitions, due to the strict conditions requiring these for successful results. Adapted from the source document.
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Origins of the Democratic Developmental State: Interrogating Mauritius
[...]democratic institutions may enhance the autonomy of political and bureaucratic elites from capital in promoting equitable socio-economic development. [...]Mauritius was typical in its reliance on extensive state intervention into economic life and in its need to undertake structural adjustment to deal with an economic crisis in the early 1980s. Real income in Mauritius more than doubled in twenty years - to almost $3 900 per capita in 2002, whereas the comparable figure for Sub-Saharan Africa as a whole was $451 (World Bank 2004). [...]growth has been accompanied by considerable diversification, especially into manufacturing industries and high-end tourism, offshore banking and business services, and information and communications technology. [...]offshore financial and business services had not yet taken off by the century's turn, and the relative poverty of the southern Africa region, together with competition from South Africa, did not auger well for the sector's future.
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Civilizing globalization : a survival guide
Is it possible to harness the benefits of economic globalization without sacrificing social equity, ecological sustainability, and democratic governance? The first edition of Civilizing Globalization (2003) explored this question at a time of widespread popular discontent. This fully revised and expanded edition comes at an equally crucial juncture. The period of relative stability and prosperity in the world economy that followed the release of the first edition ended abruptly in 2008 with a worldwide economic crisis that illustrated in dramatic fashion the enduring problems with our global order. Yet despite the gravity of the challenges, concrete initiatives for change remain insubstantial. Richard Sandbrook and Ali Burak Güven bring together international scholars and veteran activists to discuss in clear, nontechnical language the innovative political strategies, participatory institutional frameworks, and feasible regulatory designs capable of taming global markets so that they assume the role of useful servants rather than tyrannical masters.
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Conclusion
How does, and how can, the Left at the national level deal with the challenges of neoliberal globalization? The importance of this question depends on one’s assessment of the contribution of globalization and the neoliberal project in general to human betterment. The perceptive reader will have noted that the authors of this volume are not of one mind on this assessment. The book begins with a judicious review of the economic aspects of globalization by Albert Berry that, on balance, arrives at a favorable evaluation—though with important caveats regarding the unquantifiable costs of high inequality, environmental decline and threats
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