Post-Stabilization Politics in Latin America : Competition, Transition, Collapse

Wise, Carol (EDT); Roett, Riordan (EDT); Paz, Guadalupe (EDT)

ISBN 10: 0815793839 / ISBN 13: 9780815793830

Published by Brookings Institution Press, 2003

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Post-Stabilization Politics in Latin America : Competition, Transition, Collapse
• Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0815793839
• ISBN 13: 9780815793830
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: New

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Synopsis

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, the implementation 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), Martín Tanaka (Institute for Peruvian Studies, Lima), and Kenneth M. Roberts (University of New Mexico).

About the Author

Carol Wise is associate professor of international relations at the University of Southern California. Her most recent books include "Reinventing the State: Economic Strategy and Institutional Change in Peru" (Michigan, 2003). Riordan Roett is Sarita and Don Johnston Professor at the Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies at Johns Hopkins University, where he directs the Western Hemisphere Studies and Latin American Studies Programs. He is the author or editor of twenty-two books, including "China's Expansion into the Western Hemisphere "(Brookings, 2008). His textbook "Brazil: Politics in a Patrimonial Society" is now in its fifth edition.