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    Social movements and the state in the post-neoliberal era
    (Taylor and Francis, 2020) Otero, Gerardo; Gürcan, Efe Can; Mackinlay, Horacio
    The purpose of this paper is to critically engage two main strands in social movements political practices – and the corresponding literature – on Latin American development since the neoliberal turn in the 1980s, but especially after the 1994 Zapatista insurrection. These two main strands are the autonomists or “social left,” focused on civil society; and the symbiotic or “political left,” focused on the electoral field. We will then focus on the case of Mexico, where the left-of-centre Morena (National Regeneration Movement) party won the elections by a landslide in 2018, with Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) as its presidential candidate. Politically, a major feature of the neoliberal era is that most countries had returned to or initiated liberal democratic regimes after authoritarian or military governments by the 1990s. After the seeming defeat of the revolutionary strategy of direct assault on the state, the ruptural route, the question became whether progressive forces would focus on gaining state power via elections, the symbiotic route; or on trying to influence state policy via social movement mobilization from the bottom-up, i.e. the autonomist, or intersticial route.
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    Was There a Left Turn in Latin America? Building a Social Democracy Index
    (Sage Publications Inc, 2023) Gurcan, Efe Can; Otero, Gerardo; Fidan, Ilayda Isabetli
    A social democracy index designed to adjudicate among positions in the debate on the extent to which the political left in Latin America has been leftist shows empirically that both the maximalist Marxist and the liberal institutionalist perspectives are inaccurate. Most countries belonging to the so-called radical-left camp have undergone substantial social democratic achievements since their electoral victories. Moreover, the uneven distribution of social democracy performance in so-called moderate and radical camps casts serious doubt on the homogeneity of these country groupings.Un indice del nivel de socialdemocracia disenado para establecer las distintas posiciones en el debate sobre el grado de izquierdismo en la izquierda politica de America Latina da muestra empirica de la inexactitud de tanto la perspectiva marxista maximalista como de la institucionalista liberal. La mayoria de los paises pertenecientes al llamado campo de la izquierda radical han experimentado logros socialdemocratas sustanciales a partir de sus victorias electorales. Ademas, la distribucion desigual de los resultados del proyecto socialdemocrata entre los llamados campos moderados y radicales arroja serias dudas sobre la homogeneidad inherente a estas agrupaciones de paises.