What Kind of Democracy? What Kind of Market?

Latin America in the Age of Neoliberalism

• Author(s): Philip Oxhorn, Graciela Ducatenzeiler,
• Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press
• Pages: 270
• ISBN_10: 0271017996
  ISBN_13: 9780271017990
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Business & Economics / Economic Conditions , Business & Economics / Development / Economic Development , History / Latin America / General , History / Americas (North, Central, South, West Indies) , Philosophy / Political , Political Science / General , Political Science / Political Ideologies / Democracy , Political Science / Comparative Politics , Political Science / Political Economy , Political Science / Public Policy / Economic Policy , Political Science / Public Policy / General , Political Science / World / General , Political Science / World / Caribbean & Latin American ,

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While there is much literature analyzing the politics of implementing economic reforms, very little has been written on the social and political consequences of such reforms after they have been implemented. The basic premise of this book is that the convergence of many social, economic, and political ills (such as high levels of poverty, income inequality, criminal violence, and the growth of the informal sector) in the context of unprecedented levels of political democratization in Latin America presents a paradox that needs to be explained. What Kind of Democracy? demonstrates how the myriad social problems throughout the region are intimately linked both to a new economic development model and the weaknesses of Latin American democracy.

This volume brings together prominent scholars from Canada, the United States, and Latin America, representing several different disciplines to analyze ongoing processes of economic, social, and political change in the region. The contributors are Werner Baer, Manuel Barrera, Juan Alberto Fuentes, Yoshiaki Nakano, Claudio Paiva, Luiz Carlos Bresser Pereira, Jean-François Prud'homme, Jorge Schvarzer, Francisco Weffort, and Francisco Zapata.