Post-Stabilization Politics in Latin America: Competition, Transition, Collapse / Edition 1

by Carol Wise University of Southern Ca, Riordan Roett Johns Hopkins University-SAIS

Overview

"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).

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Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780815793830
Publisher:	Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Publication date:	07/28/2003
Edition description:	New Edition
Pages:	324
Product dimensions:	5.99(w) x 9.01(h) x 0.84(d)

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.

Editorial Reviews

"Expertly compiled and deftly co-edited...
Scholarly essays by a diverse authority of learned authors informingly and challengingly explore the complex interworkings of economy and government in an astute and insightful manner. POST-STABILIZATION POLICITS IN LATIN AMERICA is a core addition to professional and academic library Latin American Studies reference collections." — The Bookwatch, 2/1/2004

"Wise and Roett bring together a group of leading scholars to take a hard look at [the] intersection of economic policymaking and politics. In this excellent volume, which examines cases of Brazil, Argentina, Chile, Mexico, Peru, and Venezuela, they argue that the ultimate viability of market reform lies in the construction of a more credible structure of democratic governance." —Kenneth Maxwell, Foreign Affairs, 11/1/2003

"POST-STABILIZATION POLITICS IN LATIN AMERICA embraces a comprehensive group of articles that address the complex historical, political, and economic issues of transformations experienced by Latin American countries over the last few decades. The ten authors are well-known political science scholars with publications on Latin America that highlight aspects of political science, economics, sociology, and international relations that are relevant to the understanding of these issues by both professionals and students." —Miguel A. Rodriguez, George Washington University, Perspectives on Political Science, 1/1/2004

"[The book's] strength lies... in the fact that the chapters are rich and thoughtful, and generally reflect the complexities that attach to market reform and democratisation." —Jean Grugel, University of Sheffield, Journal of Latin American Studies, 11/1/2004

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