Debt and Democracy in Latin America

ISBN-13: 9780367014490 / Angielski / Twarda / 2019 / 248 str.

Opis

This book investigates the two-way relationship between debt and democracy in Latin America. It examines the evidence about how regime type influenced the choice of policy to deal with foreign creditors and related economic issues.

Spis treści

Introduction -- A Political-Economic Overview of the Debt Crisis -- The Latin American Debt Problem: Anatomy and Solutions -- Winners and Losers in the Latin America Debt Crisis: The Political Implications -- Debt and Democracy in Latin America, 1920s–1980s -- Key Actors in the Debt-Democracy Dilemma -- How the ‘Haves’ Manage the ‘Have-Nots’: Latin America and the Debt Crisis -- National Business, Debt-Led Growth and Political Transition in Latin America -- Organized Labor: A Major Victim of the Debt Crisis -- Case Studies of Debt and Democracy -- Economic Orthodoxy and Political Change in Mexico: The Stabilization and Adjustment Policies of the de la Madrid Administration -- Debt, Adjustment, and Democratic Cacophony in Brazil -- Crisis Management, Economic Reform and Costa Rican Democracy -- Democratization, Crisis, and the APRA’s Modernization Project in Peru -- Political Economy of Democratic Transition: Chile in the 1980s -- Conclusion -- Debt and Democracy in the 1980s: The Latin American Experience

O autorze

Stallings, Barbara