2017
DOI: 10.1111/joac.12205
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The political economy of the agro‐export boom under the Kirchners: Hegemony and passive revolution in Argentina

Abstract: Since the mid‐1990s, the economy and politics of Argentina have been closely intertwined with the expansion of agro‐exports—a process initiated with neoliberalization and continued under “post‐neoliberal” governments. The administrations of Néstor Kirchner and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner are among the left‐of‐centre, neo‐developmental governments that were elected to power in Latin America in recent decades. This paper engages Gramsci's concepts of passive revolution and hegemony to analyse the political ec… Show more

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“…Further illustrating the lack of state capacity to mobilize and allocate fiscal resources for the implementation of an agrarian reform is the fact that the “left turn” in Paraguay did not coincide with the regional shift towards neo‐developmentalism (or “progressive neo‐extractivism”), as exemplified by a number of the contributions to this special issue. Contrary to the neo‐developmentalist policies implemented in, for example, Argentina under the Kirchner administrations, where export taxes on soybeans were raised to 35% (see Lapegna, , in this special issue), Lugo's attempts to pass a bill to introduce a 6% tax on unprocessed cereal exports (soybean, maize, and rapeseed) were quashed by Congress. As a result, Lugo's administration was unable to move Paraguay beyond fundamentalist free market policies, wherein taxes on commercial agriculture are kept at derisory levels (the amount netted in 2011 was only US$13 million, equivalent to 0.5% of total tax revenue).…”
Section: The Land Reform Impasse and Agrarian Stalemate Under Lugomentioning
confidence: 98%
“…Further illustrating the lack of state capacity to mobilize and allocate fiscal resources for the implementation of an agrarian reform is the fact that the “left turn” in Paraguay did not coincide with the regional shift towards neo‐developmentalism (or “progressive neo‐extractivism”), as exemplified by a number of the contributions to this special issue. Contrary to the neo‐developmentalist policies implemented in, for example, Argentina under the Kirchner administrations, where export taxes on soybeans were raised to 35% (see Lapegna, , in this special issue), Lugo's attempts to pass a bill to introduce a 6% tax on unprocessed cereal exports (soybean, maize, and rapeseed) were quashed by Congress. As a result, Lugo's administration was unable to move Paraguay beyond fundamentalist free market policies, wherein taxes on commercial agriculture are kept at derisory levels (the amount netted in 2011 was only US$13 million, equivalent to 0.5% of total tax revenue).…”
Section: The Land Reform Impasse and Agrarian Stalemate Under Lugomentioning
confidence: 98%
“…Una de las diferencias entre períodos fue que en un primer momento, el eje de estos proyectos focalizados estaba puesto en las características culturales y étnicas de las comunidades indígenas, mientras que desde la denominación como Agricultores Familiares, ya entrados los años 2000, se procuró fortalecer un rol más productivo, caracterización que de alguna manera pareció disipar cierta fuerza política que organizaciones de base habían alcanzado años atrás mientras sostenían las demandas históricas sobre los territorios (Lapegna 2017).…”
Section: Agricultura Familiar Como Estrategia Y Como Actorunclassified
“…En mayo de 2003, Néstor Kirchner ganó las elecciones presidenciales con la alianza peronista Frente para la Victoria. Luego de una década de políticas orientadas a la reconstrucción y fortalecimiento de instituciones estatales, que será desarrollada a continuación, aunque manteniendo y hasta profundizando un modelo de neoliberalización agraria (Lapegna 2017), una vez más en correspondencia con un giro político que se observó a nivel regional, a fines del año 2015, la fuerza política de centro-derecha Cambiemos, liderada por el empresario Mauricio Macri, ganó las elecciones presidenciales. Este nuevo gobierno en muy corto tiempo ha fortalecido las fuerzas de seguridad, ha provocado despidos masivos de empleados públicos, reduciendo así la dimensión estatal fortalecida (aún bajo enormes críticas) en el período anterior, ha incrementado el costo de los servicios básicos, ha inducido a la reducción del sector privado de pequeñas y medianas empresas, favoreciendo el crecimiento de las grandes corporaciones, y ha generado un nivel de inflación por el cual los precios de la canasta básica se han disparado, alejándose del valor real de los salarios, entre otras medidas.…”
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“…In the vein of this soy boom from the 1990s to the 2010s, the neo-extractivist mode of developmentparticularly under the progressive governments of Néstor Kirchner and Cristina Fernández de Kirchner -has gained a highly interesting example to be studied (LAPEGNA, 2017;LAPEGNA, 2018). In this paper, however, we argue for a more in-depth analysis of the interrelated effects of neo-extractivism with soy production and hypothesise that the Argentine case has to be treated differently.…”
Section: Introduction: Soy Production and Neo-extractivismmentioning
confidence: 99%