Latin American Class Structures: Their Composition and Change during the Neoliberal Era

By A. Portes, K. Hoffman. 2003

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Subfields: Political Science and International Relations, Sociology and Political Science

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Performance Still Matters (2006, background): “Latin America has one of the highest rates in the world for violent crimes such as homicide, and household surveys in the region’s major cities confirm extremely elevated victimization rates (Portes and Hoffman 2003; IDB 2000: 71-72).”
Analyses of Intergenerational Mobility (2015, background): “For this reason it is claimed that classes cannot be ranked into a single hierarchical dimension, and they capture the “causes of inequality and not simply its surface manifestations” (Portes and hoffman 2003, 43).”
Neoliberalism and Democracy in Latin America: A Mixed Record (2004, background): “Nowadays, they tend to have less voice on political questions that go beyond their basic needs (Roxborough 1997,6042; Portes and Hoffman 2003,76-77).””
Unequal But Fluid: Social Mobility in Chile in Comparative Perspective (2005, background): “…sector increased during the market reform, in a pattern that foretold what happened in the rest of Latin America during the 1990s (Klein and Tokman 2000; Portes and Hoffman 2003), and what may be current developments in the industrialized world (Arum and Müller 2004; Noorderhaven et al. 2003).”
Successes and Failures of Neoliberalism (2004, unknown): “A coalition of the poor and the working class, or the informal and the manual formal proletariat, accounts for 60-70 percent of the population in Latin American countries (Portes and Hoffman 2003, 52).”
Post‐neoliberalism in Latin America: Rebuilding and Reclaiming the State after Crisis (2012, background): “…just the urban and rural poor but also many of the public sector-dependent middle class, as declining investments in public education and privatization of health insurance and higher education cut away at their established standards of living (Birdsall and Lodono, 1998; Portes and Hoffman, 2003).”