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The politics of market reform in fragile democracies : Argentina, Brazil, Peru, and Venezuela / Kurt Weyland.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Weyland, Kurt Gerhard, author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Democracy--South America.
- Democracy.
- Public opinion--South America.
- Public opinion.
- South America--Economic policy--Public opinion.
- South America.
- South America--Economic conditions--1918---Political aspects.
- South America--Economic policy--Case studies.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (358 pages) : illustrations
- Edition:
- New ed
- Place of Publication:
- Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2002]
- Summary:
- This book takes a powerful new approach to a question central to comparative politics and economics: Why do some leaders of fragile democracies attain political success when pursuing drastic, painful economic reforms while others see their political careers implode? Kurt Weyland examines the surprising willingness of presidents in four Latin American countries to enact daring reforms and the unexpected resultant popular support. He argues that only using the insights of prospect theory to understand how leaders understand the gains and losses from reform can one fully account for the twists and turns of politics and economic policy in Argentina, Brazil, Peru, and Venezuela during the 1980s and 1990s.
- Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- FIGURES AND TABLES
- ACRONYMS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- CHAPTER ONE. THE PUZZLE OF RISKY REFORMS IN UNSTABLE DEMOCRACIES
- CHAPTER TWO. THE INSUFFICIENCY OF EXISTING ARGUMENTS
- CHAPTER THREE. A NEW EXPLANATION OF ADJUSTMENT POLITICS
- CHAPTER FOUR. ECONOMIC DETERIORATION AND POSTPONED ADJUSTMENT IN THE 1980s
- CHAPTER FIVE. THE INITIATION OF NEOLIBERAL ADJUSTMENT
- CHAPTER SIX. POPULIST POLITICS AND ECONOMIC RESTRUCTURING
- CHAPTER SEVEN. THE POLITICAL SUSTAINABILITY OF NEOLIBERALISM AND NEOPOPULISM IN ARGENTINA AND PERU
- CHAPTER EIGHT. THE FITFUL COURSE OF MARKET REFORM IN BRAZIL AND VENEZUELA
- CHAPTER NINE. THEORETICAL IMPLICATIONS AND CROSS-REGIONAL PERSPECTIVES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX
- Notes:
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-323) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780691117874
- 069111787X
- OCLC:
- 1273305922
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