Title Origins of the mass party : dispossession and the party-form in Mexico and Bolivia / Edwin F. Ackerman

Published New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2022] ©2022

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Description 1 online resource (ix, 197 pages) : illustrations, maps Contents Mexico and Bolivia in comparative perspective and the sociology of party formation -- Dispossession and the mass party -- The emergence of the PRI in Mexico -- The failure of party formation in Bolivia -- Dispossession and party formation in broader comparative perspective : Germany's SPD and the (absent) British Labour Party Summary "This book argues that the mass party emerged as the product of two distinct but related 'primitive accumulations' - the dismantling of communal land tenure and the corresponding dispossession of means of local administration. It illustrates this argument by studying the party central to one of the longest regimes of the 20th century - the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) in Mexico, which emerged as a mass party during the 1930s and 1940s. I place the PRI in comparative perspective, studying the failed emergence of Bolivsia's Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario (MNR) (1952-1964), attempted under similar conditions as the Mexican case. Why was party emergence successful in one case but not the other? As the book shows, the PRI emerged as a mass party in areas in Mexico where land privatization was more intensive and communal village government was weakened, enabling the party's construction and subsequent absorption of peasant unions and organizations. To the extent that the MNR's saw organizational successes, these were limited precisely to areas in Bolivia with similar agrarian structures as those where the PRI succeeded in Mexico. Ultimately, the overall strength of communal property holding and concomitant traditional political authority structures blocked the emergence of the MNR as a mass party. In the parts of Mexico and Bolivia where economic and political expropriation was more pronounced, there was a critical mass of individuals available for political organization, with articulatable interests, and a burgeoning cast of professional politicians, that facilitated connections between the party and the peasantry. The opposite occurred in the areas of the countries were communal property and governmental forms were stronger"-- Provided by publisher Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Notes Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (Oxford Scholarship Online, viewed on June 3, 2022) Subject Partido Revolucionario Institucional -- History Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario (Bolivia) -- History Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario (Bolivia) Partido Revolucionario Institucional Political parties -- Mexico -- History -- 20th century Political parties -- Bolivia -- History -- 20th century Dominant-party systems -- Mexico -- History -- 20th century Dominant-party systems -- Bolivia -- History -- 20th century Land tenure -- Political aspects -- Mexico Land tenure -- Political aspects -- Bolivia Dominant-party systems Land tenure -- Political aspects Political parties Politics and government Mexico -- Politics and government -- 1910-1946. Bolivia -- Politics and government -- 1952-1982. Bolivia Mexico Genre/Form History Form Electronic book LC no. 2021033618 ISBN 9780197576526 0197576524 9780197576519 9780197576533 0197576532 0197576516

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