Name: Debt And Democracy In Latin America
ISBN: 9780429044359

Book

ABSTRACT

This book investigates the two-way relationship between debt and democracy in Latin America. It examines the evidence about how regime type influenced the choice of policy to deal with foreign creditors and related economic issues.

chapter |5 pages

Introduction

part I

A Political-Economic Overview of the Debt Crisis

chapter 1|16 pages

The Latin American Debt Problem: Anatomy and Solutions

chapter 2|15 pages

Winners and Losers in the Latin America Debt Crisis: The Political Implications

chapter 3|20 pages

Debt and Democracy in Latin America, 1920s–1980s

part II

Key Actors in the Debt-Democracy Dilemma

chapter 4|15 pages

How the ‘Haves’ Manage the ‘Have-Nots’: Latin America and the Debt Crisis

chapter 5|16 pages

National Business, Debt-Led Growth and Political Transition in Latin America

chapter 6|18 pages

Organized Labor: A Major Victim of the Debt Crisis

part III

Case Studies of Debt and Democracy

chapter 7|18 pages

Economic Orthodoxy and Political Change in Mexico: The Stabilization and Adjustment Policies of the de la Madrid Administration

chapter 8|16 pages

Debt, Adjustment, and Democratic Cacophony in Brazil

chapter 9|19 pages

Crisis Management, Economic Reform and Costa Rican Democracy

chapter 10|18 pages

Democratization, Crisis, and the APRA’s Modernization Project in Peru

chapter 11|19 pages

Political Economy of Democratic Transition: Chile in the 1980s

part IV|24 pages

Conclusion

chapter 12|23 pages

Debt and Democracy in the 1980s: The Latin American Experience

Debt And Democracy In Latin America