Latin America since the left turn
by Falleti, Tulia Gabriela Parrado, Emilio A.
In the early twenty-first century, the citizens of many Latin American countries, such as Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, and Venezuela, elected left-wing governments, explicitly rejecting and attempting to reverse the policies of neoliberal structural economic adjustment that had prevailed in the region during the 1990s. However, in other countries such as Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru continuity and even extension of the neoliberal agenda have been the norm. What were the consequence…
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- Full title :Latin America since the left turn / edited by Tulia G. Falleti and Emilio A. Parrado.
Summary
In the early twenty-first century, the citizens of many Latin American countries, such as Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, and Venezuela, elected left-wing governments, explicitly rejecting and attempting to reverse the policies of neoliberal structural economic adjustment that had prevailed in the region during the 1990s. However, in other countries such as Chile, Colombia, Mexico, and Peru continuity and even extension of the neoliberal agenda have been the norm. What were the consequences of rejecting the neoliberal consensus in Latin America? Why did some countries stay on the neoliberal course? Contributors to Latin America Since the Left Turn address these questions and more as they frame the tensions and contradictions that currently characterize Latin American societies and politics. Divided into three sections, the book begins with an examination of the political economy, from models of development, to taxation and spending patterns, to regionalization of trade and human migration. The second section analyzes the changes in democracy and political identities. The last part explores the themes of citizenship, constitutionalism, and new forms of civic participation. With essays by the foremost scholars in the field, Latin America Since the Left Turn not only delves into the cases of specific countries but also surveys the region as a whole.
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- Publication Date:©2018
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc
- Place of Publication:Philadelphia
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:©2018
The Physical Object
- Description:1 online resource (vii, 376 pages) : : illustrations
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780812294552, 0812294556
- oclc:on1012252575
- LC Classification:F1414.3
- Dewey Decimal:980
Table of Contents
Introduction / Tulia G. Falleti and Emilio A. Parrado -- Part I. National and regional models of development. Latin American development : perspectives and debates / Maristella Svampa -- Fiscal policy, income redistribution, and poverty reduction in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Mexico, Peru, and Uruguay : an overview / Nora Lustig and Claudiney Pereira -- Social investment in Latin America / Evelyne Huber and John D. Stephens -- Debt, democracy, and post-neoliberalism : thirty years of regional integration in Latin America / Isabella Alcan̋iz -- Mercosur and regional migration : a human rights approach / Marcela Cerrutti -- Part II. Democracy and its discontents. Venezuela between two states / George Ciccariello-Maher -- From partial to full conflict theory : a neo-Weberian portrait of the battle for Venezuela / David Smilde -- Populism or democracy? : reexamining the role of "the people" in twenty-first-century Latin American politics / Paulina Ochoa Espejo -- Part III. Citizenship, constitutionalism, and participation. Constitutional changes and judicial power in Latin America / Roberto Gargarella -- Agents of neoliberalism? : high courts, legal preferences, and rights in Latin Am…
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