INEQUALITY I N LATIN AMERICA AND THE QUANDARY OF CLIENTELISM

[...]liberals presented a middle alternative, challenging both tyranny (the rule of one) and anarchy (the rule of many), but emphasizing that "nothing was as dangerous for personal freedom as the coercive powers of the state and its coercive apparatus" (157). [...]they established a system of "mutual controls" or "checks and balances," aimed at preventing the invasion of one branch of power into the affairs of others. [...]mainstream literature's hope that social policies will promote better citizenship and eliminate clientelism has a parallel in the assumption of more alternative writings that the same results might be pursued and achieved by progressive social movements and organizations.