WEEK 5: The Politics of Economic Reform

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REQUIRED
  • John Williamson, "Panel Discussion" in John Williamson, ed., The Political Economy of Policy Reform (Washington, DC: Institute for International Economics, 1994), p. 478-81.

  • Stephan Haggard and Robert R. Kaufman, "Introduction" in Stephan Haggard and Robert R. Kaufman, eds., The Politics of Economic Adjustment: International Constraints, Distributive Conflicts, and the State (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, c1992), p. 3-37.

  • Peter Evans, "The State as Problem and Solution: Predation, Embedded Autonomy, and Structural Change," in Stephan Haggard and Robert R. Kaufman, eds., The Politics of Economic Adjustment: International Constraints, Distributive Conflicts, and the State (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, c1992), 182-3, 211-5.

  • Barbara Geddes, "The Politics of Economic Liberalization," Latin American Research Review, 1995, 30 (2):194-214.

  • Javier Corrales, "Do Economic Crises Contribute to Economic Reform? Argentina and Venezuela in the 1990s," Political Science Quarterly, Winter 1997-8, 112 (4):617-44.

  • Joan Nelson, "Crisis Management, Economic Reform, and Costa Rican Democracy," in Barbara Stallings and Robert Kaufman, eds., Debt and Democracy in Latin America (Boulder, CO: Westview, 1989), p. 143-61.

  • Juarez Brandão Lopes, "Obstacles to Economic Reform in Brazil," in Arend Lijphart and Carlos H. Waisman, eds., Institutional Design in New Democracies: Eastern Europe and Latin America (Boulder, CO: Westview, 1996), p. 195-218.

  • Manuel Pastor, "Bolivia: Hyperinflation, Stabilization, and Beyond," Journal of Development Studies, January 1991, 27 (2):211-33.

  • Ian Roxborough, "Inflation and social pacts in Brazil and Mexico," Journal of Latin American Studies, October 1992, 24 (3):639-64.
RECOMMENDED
  • Catherine M. Conaghan, James M. Malloy, and Luis A. Abugattas, "Business and the 'Boys': The Politics of Neoliberalism in the Central Andes," in Latin American Research Review, 1990, 25 (2): 3-30.

  • Karen L. Remmer, "The Political Economy of Elections in Latin America," American Political Science Review, June 1993, 87 (2):393-407.

  • John Waterbury, "The Heart of the Matter? Public Enterprise and the Adjustment Process," in Stephan Haggard and Robert R. Kaufman, eds., The Politics of Economic Adjustment: Iinternational Constraints, Distributive Conflicts, and the State (Princeton: Princeton University Press, c1992): 270-315.

  • Stephan Haggard and Robert R. Kaufman, "The Political Economy of Inflation and Stabilization in Middle-Income Countries," in Stephan Haggard and Robert R. Kaufman, eds., The Politics of Economic Adjustment: Iinternational Constraints, Distributive Conflicts, and the State (Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, c1992), 270-315.

  • Kurt Weyland, "Swallowing the Bitter Pill," in Comparative Political Studies, October 1998, 31 (5):539-68 OR "The Political Fate of Market Reform in Latin America, Africa, and Eastern Europe," International Studies Quarterly, 1998 (42):645-74.

  • Karen Remmer, "Democracy and Economic Crisis: The Latin American Experience," World Politics, April 1990, 42 (3):315-35.

  • Hector Schamis, "Reconceptualizing Latin American Authoritarianism in the 1970s: From Bureaucratic Authoritarianism to Neoconservatism," Comparative Politics, January 1991, 23 (2): 201-16.

  • Fernando de Holanda Barbosa, "Economic Development: The Brazilian Experience," in Akio Hosono and Neantro Saavedra-Rivano, eds., Development strategies in East Asia and Latin America (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998), p. 69-87.

  • John Williamson, ed., Latin American Adjustment: How Much Has Happened (Washington, DC: Institute for International Economics, 1990): 7-20, 32-35. (remarks by Williamson and Meller).

  • Patricio Meller, ed., The Latin American Development Debate (Boulder, CO: Westview, 1991): 79-97, 129-62, 169-90.

  • John Williamson, ed., Latin American Adjustment: How Much Has Happened (Washington, DC: Institute for International Economics, 1990): 353-419.

  • James L. Dietz, "Debt and Development: The Future of Latin America," in James L. Dietz and James H. Street, eds., Latin America's Economic Development: Institutionalist and Structuralist Perspectives (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 1987).

  • Carol Graham and Moises Naim, "The political economy of institutional reform in Latin America," in Nancy Birdsall, Carol Graham, and Richard H. Sabot, editors, Beyond tradeoffs: market reforms and equitable growth in Latin America (Washington, D.C.: Inter-American Development Bank/Brookings Institution Press, 1998).

  • Barbara Stallings, "Structural adjustment in East Asia and Latin America: a selective literature review," in Akio Hosono and Neantro Saavedra-Rivano, eds., Development strategies in East Asia and Latin America (New York: St. Martin's Press, 1998).
LITERARY OVERLAY
  • Octavio Paz, "The Philanthropic Ogre," Dissent, Winter 1979.

 

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