Latin American Democracies In The New Global Economy

Author : Ana Margheritis
Publisher : University of Miami, North/South Center Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 314 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Latin American Democracies in the New Global Economy written by Ana Margheritis and published by University of Miami, North/South Center Press. This book was released on 2003 with total page 314 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analyzes the economic, political, and social dimensions of changes in Latin America toward more open economies and more democratic governance.

Author : Gary McMahon
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 1349246425
Total Pages : 259 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Economic Policy and the Transition to Democracy written by Gary McMahon and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-12-22 with total page 259 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the 1980s a large number of Latin American countries reverted from military dictatorships to civilian democracies. In most cases the new democratic governments inherited an extremely precarious economic situation, which left little room to manoeuvre. This book analyzes the special problems that governments face in the formulation and implementation of economic policy after the restoration of democracy. In each of six cases - Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay - an analysis is made of the difficulties encountered and the performance of the democratic governments.

Author : Andrew Fenton Cooper
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Which Way Latin America? written by Andrew Fenton Cooper and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the ways in which the region has re-engaged globalization.

Author : Juan A. Morales
Publisher : International Development Research Centre
ISBN 13 : 9780889367548
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.4X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Economic Policy and the Transition to Democracy written by Juan A. Morales and published by International Development Research Centre. This book was released on 1996 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sandor Halebsky
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 042998149X
Total Pages : 570 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Capital, Power, And Inequality In Latin America written by Sandor Halebsky and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2018-10-08 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the last two decades, economic, political, and social life in Latin America has been transformed by the region’s accelerated integration into the global economy. Although this transformation has tended to exacerbate various inequities, new forms of popular expression and action challenging the contemporary structures of capital and power have also developed. This volume is a comprehensive, genuinely comparative text on contemporary Latin America. In it, an international group of contributors offer multidimensional analyses of the historical context, contemporary character, and future direction of rural transformation, urbanization, economic restructuring, and the transition to political democracy. In addition, individual essays address the changing role of women, the influence of religion, the growth of new social movements, the struggles of indigenous peoples, and ecological issues. Finally, the book examines the influence of U.S. policy and of regionalization and globalization on the Latin American states. Sandor Halebsky is professor of sociology at Saint Mary’s University in Halifax, Nova Scotia. He coedited Cuba in Transition: Crisis and Transformation (Westview, 1992). Richard L. Harris is chair of the faculty at Golden Gate University in Monterey, California. He is one of the coordinating editors of the journal Latin American Perspectives and the author of Marxism, Socialism, and Democracy in Latin America (Westview, 1992).

Author : Scott Mainwaring
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107433630
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Democracies and Dictatorships in Latin America written by Scott Mainwaring and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-01-31 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a new theory for why political regimes emerge, and why they subsequently survive or break down. It then analyzes the emergence, survival and fall of democracies and dictatorships in Latin America since 1900. Scott Mainwaring and Aníbal Pérez-Liñán argue for a theoretical approach situated between long-term structural and cultural explanations and short-term explanations that look at the decisions of specific leaders. They focus on the political preferences of powerful actors - the degree to which they embrace democracy as an intrinsically desirable end and their policy radicalism - to explain regime outcomes. They also demonstrate that transnational forces and influences are crucial to understand regional waves of democratization. Based on extensive research into the political histories of all twenty Latin American countries, this book offers the first extended analysis of regime emergence, survival and failure for all of Latin America over a long period of time.

Author : Alex Segura-Ubiergo
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139464612
Total Pages : 25 pages
Book Rating : 4.11/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Political Economy of the Welfare State in Latin America written by Alex Segura-Ubiergo and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2007-06-25 with total page 25 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is one of the first attempts to analyze how developing countries through the early twenty-first century have established systems of social protection, and how these systems have been affected by the processes of globalization and democratization. The book focuses on Latin America to identify factors associated with the evolution of welfare state policies during the pre-globalization period prior to 1979, whilst studying how globalization and democratization have affected governments' fiscal commitment to social spending. In contrast with the Western European experience, more developed welfare systems evolved in countries relatively closed to international trade, while the recent process of globalization that has swept the region has put substantial downward pressure on social security expenditures. Health and education spending has been relatively protected from greater exposure to international markets and has actually increased substantially with the shift to democracy.

Author : Philip Oxhorn
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271048948
Total Pages : 296 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sustaining Civil Society written by Philip Oxhorn and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 296 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Devoting particular emphasis to Bolivia, Chile, and Mexico, proposes a theory of civil society to explain the economic and political challenges for continuing democratization in Latin America"--Provided by publisher.

Author : Diana Kapiszewski
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108842046
Total Pages : 587 pages
Book Rating : 4.44/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Inclusionary Turn in Latin American Democracies written by Diana Kapiszewski and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-04 with total page 587 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume analyzes how enduring democracy amid longstanding inequality engendered inclusionary reform in contemporary Latin America.

Author : Margarita Fajardo
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674270029
Total Pages : 297 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The World That Latin America Created written by Margarita Fajardo and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2022-02-08 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How a group of intellectuals and policymakers transformed development economics and gave Latin America a new position in the world. After the Second World War demolished the old order, a group of economists and policymakers from across Latin America imagined a new global economy and launched an intellectual movement that would eventually capture the world. They charged that the systems of trade and finance that bound the world’s nations together were frustrating the economic prospects of Latin America and other regions of the world. Through the UN Economic Commission for Latin America, or CEPAL, the Spanish and Portuguese acronym, cepalinos challenged the orthodoxies of development theory and policy. Simultaneously, they demanded more not less trade, more not less aid, and offered a development agenda to transform both the developed and the developing world. Eventually, cepalinos established their own form of hegemony, outpacing the United States and the International Monetary Fund as the agenda setters for a region traditionally held under the orbit of Washington and its institutions. By doing so, cepalinos reshaped both regional and international governance and set an intellectual agenda that still resonates today. Drawing on unexplored sources from the Americas and Europe, Margarita Fajardo retells the history of dependency theory, revealing the diversity of an often-oversimplified movement and the fraught relationship between cepalinos, their dependentista critics, and the regional and global Left. By examining the political ventures of dependentistas and cepalinos, The World That Latin America Created is a story of ideas that brought about real change.