Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Tables and Figures
- Introduction: Renato Boschi and Carlos Henrique Santana
- Part I Development, Macroeconomic Policies and Varieties of Capitalism
- Chapter 1 Postsocialist States in the System of Global Capitalism: A Comparative Perspective
- Chapter 2 Politics and Development: Lessons from Latin America
- Chapter 3 Managing the Faustian Bargain: Monetary Autonomy in the Pursuit of Development in Eastern Europe and Latin America
- Chapter 4 Development and Dependency, Developmentalism and Alternatives
- Part II Political Culture, Identity Politics and Political Contention
- Part III Ideas and the Role of Elites and Advocacy Networks: Translating and Legitimating the Frontiers of Institutional Reforms
- Part IV Economic Reforms, Public Policies and Development
Chapter 2 - Politics and Development: Lessons from Latin America
from Part I - Development, Macroeconomic Policies and Varieties of Capitalism
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 July 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of Tables and Figures
- Introduction: Renato Boschi and Carlos Henrique Santana
- Part I Development, Macroeconomic Policies and Varieties of Capitalism
- Chapter 1 Postsocialist States in the System of Global Capitalism: A Comparative Perspective
- Chapter 2 Politics and Development: Lessons from Latin America
- Chapter 3 Managing the Faustian Bargain: Monetary Autonomy in the Pursuit of Development in Eastern Europe and Latin America
- Chapter 4 Development and Dependency, Developmentalism and Alternatives
- Part II Political Culture, Identity Politics and Political Contention
- Part III Ideas and the Role of Elites and Advocacy Networks: Translating and Legitimating the Frontiers of Institutional Reforms
- Part IV Economic Reforms, Public Policies and Development
Summary
Desarrollo es un término de azarosa biografía en América Latina. Sus promesas arrastraron a todos los sectores de la sociedad y de algún modo encendieron uno de los más densos y ricos debates de toda nuestra historia, pero fueron eclipsándose en un horizonte cada vez más esquivo y sus abanderados y seguidores fueron enjaulados por el desencanto.
—Anibal QuijanoIntroduction
Since the beginning of the century, the tendency in Latin America has been that of extraordinary ideological turns followed by the reversing of the direction of public policies. Considering the degree of the metamorphosis going on in the states of the region, electoral victories of formulas that proclaimed (in a more or less clear way) their distance from the neoliberal ideology, have taken place in a fairly short period of time with renewed state intervention in the economy.
This turn has given new energy to the discussion of the new public agenda and the key components of the emerging development project being constructed by political scientists and economists. In other words, a new space for politics was opened up. The 1980s was a period of relative freedom for the governments of peripheral countries, given the deep fiscal crisis inherited after the debt crisis and the neoliberal ideological policies. The combination of the renowned Washington Consensus and fiscal constraints were key for governments to carry out a handbook of structural reforms forced, mostly, by short-term emergencies. In recent years, the process of reverting the countries' conditions to carry out their autonomous development pathways has been accelerated.
- Type
- Chapter
- Information
- Development and Semi-PeripheryPost-Neoliberal Trajectories in South America and Central Eastern Europe, pp. 45 - 64Publisher: Anthem PressPrint publication year: 2012
- 1
- Cited by