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CIPR Associate Fellows Contribute to New Book on the Occupy Wall Street Movement
March 23rd, 2012
Associate Research Fellows Nora Lustig and Eduardo Silva contributed a chapter to the “Occupy Handbook”, compiled and edited by Janet Byrne. The book, which is due out in April, assesses the origins of the Occupy movement, collects its lessons, and offers some prescriptions for the future. Lustig and Silva’s chapter, ¡Basta YA!: Chilean Students Say "Enough", analyzes the 2011 student mobilizations in Chile. The student protests, which garnered widespread support from Chilean society, have many characteristics in common with Occupy Wall Street. Consequently, the authors ponder whether the Occupy movement could derive positive lessons from the Chilean experience that could magnify its political impact.
Contributors to the Occupy Handbook include Paul Krugman, Robert Buckley, Michael Lewis, Jeffrey Sachs, Eliot Spitzer, and 48 others. The book will contain 67 essays and will also be published in Spanish. The Tulane New Wave has published an article about the Handbook, you can read it here.
Recent commentaries on the book:
"This fascinating collection explains why and how income and wealth inequalities have rightly climbed to the top of the policy agenda in so many countries. With multiple perspectives from both experts and activists, The Occupy Handbook contains valuable insights on the historical context, the formation of the popular movements, their impact, and what the future may hold. I suspect it won't be long before this handbook is viewed as the reference guide for understanding how an unstructured gathering of people in Zuccotti Park ended up providing the catalyst redefining policy imperatives around the world."
-Mohamed A. El-Erian, CEO of PIMCO and author of When Markets Collide
"More than a scrapbook of the recent Occupy Wall Street movement, The Occupy Handbook, a compilation by our best journalists, thinkers and economists, puts the story of America's revolt against inequality in welcome historical perspective. From the barricades of 1848, to the barrios of modern Chile, to the improbable campgrounds thrown together in the shadows of New York skyscrapers, the Handbook examines the budding question of whether democracy can foster a more equal, and also a more prosperous, society. Insightful pieces by Gillian Tett, John Cassidy, Bethany McLean and many more prepare you to think about the next outbreak of outrage and activism-which is only a matter of time."
-Roger Lowenstein, author of The End of Wall Street and When Genius Failed
G. Eduardo Silva
Professor, Political Science; Senior Associate Research Fellow, CIPR
Nora Lustig
Professor, Economics. Stone Chair of Latin American Economics.
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Rethinking State-Society Relations in Contemporary Latin America
The emergence, crisis, and collapse of neoliberalism gave way to new types of political regimes that set themselves the task of redefining state-society relationships to promote more socially inclusive polities. The accomplishments and shortcomings of those processes need yet to be evaluated, particularly from an encompassing, historically-informed perspective that is not afraid of challenging established assumptions and mainstream understandings of Latin America to do justice to current developments. What are the continuities/ discontinuities in terms of state-society linkages that the various processes of change experienced since the return to democracy introduced in the Latin American landscape? Is Latin America moving towards a more democratic and inclusive society? What is the nature of the new patterns of state-society interaction? Have they drastically altered the legacy of populism, bureaucratic-authoritarianism, and neoliberalism?, in which specific ways? Are emerging regimes promoting new patterns of exclusion or novel forms of authoritarianism?
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