WEEK 6: The Political Consequences of Market-Oriented Reform in Venezuela

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REQUIRED
  • Inter-American Development Bank, "Latin America after a Decade of Reforms," Economic and Social Progress in Latin America: 1997-98 Report (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1998), p. 31-82.

  • Brian Crisp, "Lessons from Economic Reform in the Venezuelan Democracy," Latin American Research Review, 1998, 33 (1):7-42.

  • Carlos Gervasoni, "The Electoral Consequences of Market-Oriented Reform in Latin America," TBA.

  • Andres Villarreal, "Public Opinion of the Economy and the President among Mexico City Residents: The Salinas Sexenio," Latin American Research Review, 1999, 34 (2):132-51.

  • Peter H. Smith, "The Political Impact of Free Trade on Mexico," Journal of Inter-American Studies and World Affairs, Spring 1992, 34 (1):1-25.
RECOMMENDED
  • Moises Naim, Paper Tigers and Minotaurs: The Politics of Venezuela's Economic Reforms (Washington: Carnegie Endowment, 1993).

  • George Collier, "Structural adjustment and new regional movements: the Zapatista Rebellion in Chiapas," in Latin American Program, the Woodrow Wilson Center, Ethnic conflict and governance in comparative perspective (Washington, DC: Woodrow Wilson Center, 1995).

  • Karen L. Remmer, "The Political Impact of Economic Crisis in Latin America in the 1980s," American Political Science Review, September 1991, 85 (3):777-800.

  • 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), p. 319-50.

  • Albert Berry, ed., Poverty, economic reform & income distribution in Latin America (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 1998), p. 9-41, 43-78, 235-48 (contributions by Berry, Altimir, and Berry).

  • Bruce H. Kay, "'Fujipopulism' and the Liberal State in Peru," Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs, Winter 1996-97, 38 (4):55-98.

  • John Walton, "Debt, Protest, and the State in Latin America," in Susan Eckstein, ed., Power and Popular Protest (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1989).

  • Jorge Buendia, "Economic Reform, Public Opinion, and Presidential Approval in Mexico, 1988-93," Comparative Political Studies, 1996, 29 (5): 566-91.

  • William C. Smith and Roberto Patricio Korzeniewicz, eds., Politics, social change, and economic restructuring in Latin America (Coral Gables, FL: North-South Center Press; Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 1997), chapter on Chiapas.

  • Nora Lustig, Mexico: The Remaking of an Economy (Washington, DC: Brookings, 1998), p. 61-95, 201-220.

  • Eduardo A. Gamarra, "Market-Oriented Reforms and Democracy in Latin America: Challenges of the 1990s," in William C. Smith, Carlos H. Acuna, Eduardo A. Gamarra, eds., Latin American Political Economy in the Age of Neoliberal Reform: Theoretical and Comparative Perspectives for the 1990s (Miami: North-South Center, University of Miami, 1994), p. 1-16.

  • Comparative Political Studies, Special Issue on Public Support for Market Reforms in Emerging Democracies, October 1996, 29 (5): 544-591.

  • Philip Oxhorn & Pamela K. Starr, Markets & democracy in Latin America: conflict or convergence? (Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1999).

  • Adam Przeworski, Democracy and the market: political and economic reforms in Eastern Europe and Latin America (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1991).

  • James Petras with Todd Cavaluzzi, Morris Morley, and Steve Vieux, The left strikes back: class conflict in Latin America in the age of neoliberalism (Boulder, CO: Westview Press, 1999), p. 1-57.

  • Journal of Inter-American Studies and World Affairs, Special Double Issue on Povery and Inequality in Latin America, Summer/Fall 1996, 38 (2/3).

 

 

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