Democracy and state, modern world
The transformations that have occurred over the past three decades in the capitalist and socialist states brought to the discussion the importance of democracy as a determinant of the changes made largely in contemporary societies. The relationship between state and democracy becomes a rich analytical tool to understand and analyze the advances and setbacks of recent years in contemporary societies.
As we have witnessed over the last two decades, the neoliberal ideal processes the separation between the process of democratization and state reform. What we are seeing is an attempt to enforce the idea of a state modernization by improving its economic functionality without much concern for the democratization of the state. This is one of the key factors by which permeates the economic restructuring and policy, both in Latin America and Eastern Europe as in Western Europe and the United States. Of course this trigger reforms does not occur in a linear and unequivocally. Reforms in Latin American countries and in Eastern Europe are as distinct from each other as those occurring in Western Europe and the United States of America.
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[...] There was hyperinflation, or there was a collective ownership system and state planning to be transformed. The reforms in Spain had a considerable impact on the level of unemployment, but on the other hand, the successive agreements between unions, government and private sector provided a better trade-off between wages and social policies. In the negotiations, the government often invoked that wage increases above a certain level would have negative consequences for public spending. The increases would have to be offset, reducing public resources for improving and increasing the supply of health services, education, unemployment benefits and so on. [...]
[...] The relationship between state and democracy becomes a rich analytical tool to understand and analyze the advances and setbacks of recent years in contemporary societies. As we have witnessed over the last two decades, the neoliberal ideal processes the separation between the process of democratization and state reform. What we are seeing is an attempt to enforce the idea of a state modernization by improving its economic functionality without much concern for the democratization of the state. This is one of the key factors by which permeates the economic restructuring and policy, both in Latin America and Eastern Europe as in Western Europe and the United States. [...]
[...] This marked exclusion is a constant factor of insecurity and uncertainty about the aspect of institutional democratic political evolution, since it is not reflected in substantial changes in the economic and social sphere. The example of Spain may not serve as a reference for Latin American countries, for in it the democratic political development is closely related to distributional changes in the economic and social field. CONCLUSION Democracy, as a dual process, must be concerned with the reformulation of the state, not only is underlain by economic and administrative reasons, but also gearing up towards its democratization, providing ever greater engagement and participation. [...]
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