The political economy of protest and patience : East European and Latin American transformations compared / Béla Greskovits.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Greskovits, Béla, 1953-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Post-communism--Europe, Eastern.

Post-communism.

Eastern Europe.

Europe, Eastern--Economic conditions--1989-.

Europe, Eastern.

Economic conditions.

Latin America--Economic conditions--1982-.

Latin America.

Latin America--Politics and government--1980-.

Politics and government.

Physical Description:

233 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Budapest : Central European University Press ; Ithaca, N.Y. : Distributed in the U.S. by Cornell University Press Services, 1998.

Summary:

Why did Eastern Europeans protest less about the brutal social consequences of systemic change than the people of Latin America a decade earlier? Why has the regionwide authoritarian or populist turnabout not occurred? Why has democracy in these countries proved to be Crisis-proof? In what ways has economic crisis impacted on the politics of the region?

In addressing these questions, this book uses a comparative analysis of the structures, institutions, cultures, and actors shaping both the Eastern European and the Latin American transformations, and argues that structural, institutional, and cultural factors have put a brake on destabilizing collective actions and have paved the way for the emergence of the enduring, low-level equilibrium between incomplete democracy and imperfect market economy which seems set to characterize the Eastern European experience for the foreseeable future.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [199]-218) and index.

ISBN:

9639116149

9639116130

OCLC:

60158569