The Politics of Expertise in Latin America

ISBN-13: 9780312210267 / Angielski / Twarda / 1998 / 238 str.

Miguel Angel Centeno; Patricio Silva

Opis

This book is the first comparative analysis of the events of Latin American poitics in the 1980's and 1990's and their imploications for the very nature of the new democracies in the region.

Spis treści

Preface - Notes on the Contributors - The Politics of Expertise in Latin America: Introduction; M.A.Centeno & P.Silva - The Quest for Modernity: Latin America's Technocratic Ideas in Historical Perspective; M.Baud - The Politics of Knowledge: Hayek and Technocracy; M.A.Centeno - Pablo Ramirez: A Political Technocrat avant-la-lettre; P.Silva - The Material Bases of Technocracy: Investor Confidence and Neoliberalism in Latin America; B.R.Schneider - The World Bank and the Transformation of Latin American Society; P.van Dijck - Economists in Party Politics: Chilean Democracy in the Era of the Markets; V.Montecinos - Stars of the Crisis: The Ascent of Economists in Peruvian Public Life; C.M.Conaghan - Feminism and Technocracy: Femocrats in Brazil in the Eighties; I.van Halsema - Technocrats and Politicians in the Democratic Politics of Argentina (1983-95); C.Huneeus - Technocracy a la Mexicana: Antecedent to Democracy?; R.A.Camp - References - Index