Miraculous Metamorphoses: The Neoliberalization of Latin American Populism

This volume examines a central conundrum of Latin American politics. How is that the triumph of neoliberal—inspired economic restructuring in the 1980s and 90s did not cause the political demise of populist movements? What is remarkable, as these scholars show, is that Latin American populist parties, which had long been associated with statist, quasi—Keynesian, even demagogic economic policies, have survived the transition to the much harsher era of free markets, privatisation, unemploymen...