Mobilisering en bureaucratie op Cuba

Samenvatting

The relationships between institutionalization and mobilization is unclear. Deinstitutionalization is one of the conditions of mobilization. The contrast between bureaucracy and mobilization is especially evident in Cuba. In 1956 Cuban rebels began the struggle against Batista in a remote part of Oriente province. After the take-over of Havana in 1958 the movement began to disintegrate. The communists, who had not taken an active part in the revolution, were the only ones who had knowledge and people available to establish a government; the first Castro government included a large number of communists. The ideology tended to be mostly personal statements made by Castro in speeches to the people. In the early years after the revolution, a state of economic anarchy existed, which was soon replaced by a controlled economy involving the establishment of a bureaucracy to regulate it. Problems in failing to achieve economic goals were considered individual, rather than institutional shortcomings. The military was deployed to mobilize the people, since it was the only institution which could combine bureaucracy with the capacity to mobilize. P. Tiersma.