Limit search to available items
Book Cover
E-book

Title Post-stabilization politics in Latin America : competition, transition, collapse / Carol Wise and Riordan Roett, editors, with Guadalupe Paz
Published Washington, D.C. : Brookings Institution Press, ©2003

Copies

Description 1 online resource (xii, 306 pages) : illustrations
Contents Introduction: Latin American politics in the era of market reform / Carol Wise. Part One. Postreform politics: voting, mobility, and citizenship. Elections and economics in contemporary Latin America / Karen L. Remmer. Hardship and happiness: social mobility and public perceptions during market reforms / Carol Graham and Stefano Pettinato. The new Latin American citizen: first world models, third wave products / Consuelo Cruz. Part Two. Competitive elections and postreform coalition building: Argentina and Chile. Prelude to disaster: weak reform, competitive politics in Argentina / Juan E. Corradi. Taking the Concertación to task: second stage reforms and the 1999 presidential elections in Chile / Delia M. Boylan. Part Three. Politics in transition: Mexico and Brazil. Mexico's democratic transition: the search for new reform coalitions / Carol Wise. Brazil's protracted transition to democracy and the market / Riordan Roett. Part Four. Party collapse amid market restructuring: Peru and Venezuela. The political constraints on market reform in Peru / Martín Tanaka. Party system collapse amid market restructuring in Venezuela / Kenneth M. Roberts
Summary Annotation Over the last twenty years Latin America has seen a definitive movement toward civilian rule. Significant trade, fiscal, and monetary reforms have accompanied this shift, exposing previously state-led economies to the forces of the market. Despite persistent economic and political hardships, the combination of civilian regimes and market-based strategies has proved to be remarkably resilient and still dominates the region. This book focuses on the effects of market reforms on domestic politics in Latin America. While considering civilian rule as a constant, the book examines and compares domestic political responses in six countries that embraced similar packages of reforms in the 1980s -- Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Mexico, Peru, and Venezuela. The contributors focus on how ambitious measures such as liberalization, privatization, and deregulation yielded mixed results in these countries and in doing so they identify three main patterns of political economic adjustment. In Argentina and Chile, theimplementation of market reforms has gone hand in hand with increasingly competitive politics. In Brazil and Mexico, market reforms helped to catalyze transitions from entrenched authoritarian rule. Finally, in Peru and Venezuela, traditional political systems have collapsed and civilian rule has been repeatedly challenged. The contributors include Carol Wise (University of Southern California), Karen L. Remmer (Duke University), Carol Graham (Brookings Institution), Stefano Pettinato (United Nations Development Programme), Consuelo Cruz (Tufts University), Juan E. Corradi (New York University), Delia M. Boylan (Chicago Public Radio), Riordan Roett (Johns Hopkins University), Martmn Tanaka(Institute for Peruvian Studies, Lima), and Kenneth M. Roberts (University of New Mexico)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 273-290) and index
Notes Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL
digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL
Print version record
SUBJECT Lateinamerika gnd
Subject Structural adjustment (Economic policy) -- Political aspects -- Latin America
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- General.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- World -- Caribbean & Latin American.
Economic history
Economic policy
Politics and government
Structural adjustment (Economic policy)
Demokratie
Marktwirtschaft
Structurele aanpassing (ontwikkelingseconomie)
Democratisering.
SUBJECT Latin America -- Economic policy
Latin America -- Economic conditions -- 1982- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh88005678
Latin America -- Politics and government -- 1980- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh87000854
Subject Latin America
Form Electronic book
Author Wise, Carol
Roett, Riordan, 1938-
ISBN 0815796048
9780815796046
0815793839
9780815793830
Other Titles Poststabilization politics in Latin America