Título

Critical realism and the strategic-relational approach

Autor

Héctor Cuadra Montiel

Nivel de Acceso

Acceso Abierto

Identificador alterno

doi: 10.1558/jocr.2007.v6i1.84

Referencia de datos

datasetDOI/https://doi.org/10.1558/jocr.2007.v6i1.84

Resumen o descripción

"This article opens with a brief analysis of key features of the Mexican semi-authoritarian regime. It then moves to a discussion of the critical realist positions and features that inform the strategic-relational approach (SRA). Attention is paid to social interactions and causal relations that enable the SRA to trace patterns of punctuated evolution and to highlight the processes of transformation. Since ideal types serve to highlight key characteristics in specifc phenomena, processes and actors, some features of ideal types of the state and of the transition from one type to another are also discussed. In particular, attention is paid to the Keynesian welfare national state (KWNS) and to the Schumpeterian workfare post-national regime (SWPR) ideal types elaborated by Jessop. For it is contended that the specific features of these ideal types could be of great help in broadening the debate on economic restructuring and political reforms in countries such as Mexico. Moreover, the SRA approach provides an insight into the endogenous features of social change and stresses the importance of networking for a strategic agenda as well. For the never-static dynamics of the processes of change the role of situated agents in context is fundamental, as it injects intentionality and acknowledges the contingency of the conditions that surround them".

Editor

Rhodes University, South Africa

Fecha de publicación

2007

Tipo de publicación

Artículo

Versión de la publicación

Versión publicada

Formato

application/pdf

Fuente

Journal of Critical Realism

Idioma

Español

Audiencia

Bibliotecarios

Investigadores

Maestros

Sugerencia de citación

Héctor Montiel (2007) Critical Realism and the Strategic-Relational Approach, Journal of Critical Realism, 6:1, 84-110

Repositorio Orígen

Repositorio COLSAN

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