Political incorporation versus political stability: The case of the Chilean agrarian reform, 1965–70∗

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The thesis of this article is that the relationships often assumed to hold between political integration and political stability are subject to numerous conditions. After distinguishing and redefining processes of ‘integration’ and ‘incorporation’, the argument subordinates the relationship between these and the maintenance of political stability to the pattern of class conflict and class alliance in a society. On this basis it is claimed that the Chilean Agrarian Reform under Frei, as a process of both incorporation and integration, created unstable conditions in the society, despite the relatively small changes in the pattern of land distribution; had structural change been more profound in the countryside, greater instability would have ensued even sooner.

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