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The Introduction identifies key elements of the current political economic context of the region and reviews outstanding works on the historical constitution of dominant elites in each of the case study countries. It then discusses the central themes that emerge from the case studies: the reconfiguration of dominant elites under state tutelage and through financial, service, and commercial enterprises; lack of land and asset redistribution and even new patterns of increased concentration and regional corporate expansion; the importance of neoliberal economic thought as an anchor to these processes and the role of international institutions in promoting them; and the leading role of local elite groups in preventing redistributive reforms, even under the so-called “pink tide” governments. Country-specific themes, such as the role of criminal networks, are also identified.
Many thanks to Timothy David Clark and Gavin Fridell for their valuable suggestions about revisions to an earlier draft of this chapter.
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North, L.L. (2018). Introduction—Reconfiguring Domination: Case Studies from Latin America. In: North, L., Clark, T. (eds) Dominant Elites in Latin America. Latin American Political Economy. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53255-4_1
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