The Political Economy of Protest and Patience : East European and Latin American Trasformations Compared / Béla Greskovits.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Greskovits, Béla, Author.

Language:

English

Physical Description:

1 online resource (246 p.)

Place of Publication:

Budapest ; New York : Central European University Press, [2022]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Despite gloomy prophecies, democracy and the market economy seem to be taking root throughout Central and Eastern Europe, although set against a background of a recession deeper and longer than that of the Great Depression. How is this possible? 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 region-wide 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, Béla Greskovits uses a comparative analysis of the structures, institutions, cultures, and actors shaping both the Eastern European and the Latin American transformations. He 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 Central and Eastern European experience for the foreseeable future.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Preface

List of Tables

List of Abbreviations

Chapter 1. Introduction: Good-bye Breakdown Prophecies, Hello Poor Democracies

Chapter 2. Crises and Neoliberal Transformations in the 1980s and 1990s

Chapter 3. The Loneliness of the Economic Reformer

Chapter 4. Local Reformers and Foreign Advisers

Chapter 5. The Social Response to Economic Hardship

Chapter 6. Rethinking Populism under Postcommunism

Chapter 7. Populist Transformation Strategies: The Hungarian Case in Comparative Perspective

Chapter 8. Compensation as a Government Tactic

Chapter 9. Conflict, Social Pact, and Democratic Development in Transforming Hungary

Chapter 10. Crisis-proof, Poor Democracies

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Jul 2022)

ISBN:

963-386-543-3

OCLC:

1338019568