Enter economism, exit politics : experts, economic policy and the damage to democracy / Teivo Teivainen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Teivainen, Teivo.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Democracy--Economic aspects.

Democracy.

Globalization.

Latin America--Economic conditions.

Latin America.

Economic conditions.

Physical Description:

xviii, 227 pages ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

London ; New York : Zed, 2002.

Summary:

Teivo Teivainen explores the redefinition of the boundaries of the economic and the political spheres. In examining how and to what extent it is taking place, he takes the case of the periodic Latin American debt crisis in the 20th Century, and more specifically, the illuminating example of Peru, particularly the failed attempt by President Garcia to resist this new economism and the subsequent volte-face by his successor, President Fujimori.

Contents:

1 The Transnational Politics of Economism 1

The politics of boundary construction 1

The need for disciplinary transgressions 5

Within and without International Political Economy 7

2 The Limits to Democracy 15

'New constitutionalism' as the constitutional politics of economism 15

The formal limits to democracy 18

Reserved domains 21

The historical construction of the economy 24

The metaphysics of economism and the limits to democracy 26

3 Economism and the Politics of Latin American Debt Crises 32

Disciplinary politics of the Latin American debt crisis in the 1920s 32

Bretton Woods and the globalization of economic surveillance 37

The conditionality and neutrality principles of the IMF 40

The politics of economism in the debt crisis of the 1980s and 1990s 43

4 Peru in Historical Perspective 48

From the money doctors to the IMF 48

The era of state planning 51

The end of the oligarchic state 53

Democratization and neo-liberalization 56

The transition to civilian government and the constitution of 1979 58

The Belaunde period and the crisis of economism 61

5 Confronting Economism: The Rebellion of the Garcia Government 68

The heterodox politicization of the economic sphere 68

Ambiguously against economism 70

Politicizing foreign debt 72

Not qualified for credit 76

The US government and Garcia's challenge to economism 78

Continentalism and the lack of external allies 82

The alliance with the business elite 85

6 Retreat to Economism: The Breakdown of Heterodoxy and Debt Rebellion 92

Problems in the strategy 92

Breaking the pact 94

Garcia's Estatismo and the disunity of the Left 99

Dirty war and terrorist actions 101

The Salinazo and neo-liberal normalization in 1988 103

Taming the rebel 104

7 The Reinsertion of the Fujimori Government 112

Electoral populism, orthodox practice 112

Preparing for the reinsertion 115

Reinserting with the multilaterals 118

Reinserting with other creditors and the US government 120

8 The Expansion of the Economic Sphere 126

Orthodox economic policy 126

The expansion of the economic through privatization 128

The politics of economism and populist practices within the public sphere 132

9 The Autogolpe and the Transnational Politics of Democracy Promotion 137

The autogolpe 137

Sovereignty claims and human rights intervention 140

Meta-political authority and sovereignty claims 145

Reinsertion after autogolpe 147

The business elite, labour relations and authoritarianism 149

10 The Consolidation of Economism 156

The CCD and the constitution of 1993 156

Constitutional politics and contending rights 160

Democratic forms under debate 165

11 The Monarchization of Democracy 172

Explaining the politics of economism 172

The construction of irreversibility 174

The transition to monarchicized democracy 177

12 Expanding the Limits of the Possible 181

Economism and the limits to democracy 181

Constitutional utopistics 183

Can democracy be global? Should it? 185

The dialectics of change 188

From Seattle to Porto Alegre 190

Beyond anti-globalization 192.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1842770349

1842770357

OCLC:

48977700