Post-Stabilization Politics in Latin America

<DIV><P>Over the last twenty years Latin America has seen a definitive movement toward civilian rule. Significant trade fiscal and monetary reforms have accompanied this shift exposing previously state-led economies to the forces of the market. Despite persistent economic and political hardships the combination of civilian regimes and market-based strategies has proved to be remarkably resilient and still dominates the region. This book focuses on the effects of market reforms on domestic politics in Latin America. While considering civilian rule as a constant the book examines and compares domestic political responses in six countries that embraced similar packages of reforms in the 1980s—Argentina Brazil Chile Mexico Peru and Venezuela. The contributors focus on how ambitious measures such as liberalization privatization and deregulation yielded mixed results in these countries and in doing so they identify three main patterns of political economic adjustment. In Argentina and Chile the implementation of market reforms has gone hand in hand with increasingly competitive politics. In Brazil and Mexico market reforms helped to catalyze transitions from entrenched authoritarian rule. Finally in Peru and Venezuela traditional political systems have collapsed and civilian rule has been repeatedly challenged. The contributors include Carol Wise (University of Southern California) Karen L. Remmer (Duke University) Carol Graham (Brookings Institution) Stefano Pettinato (United Nations Development Programme) Consuelo Cruz (Tufts University) Juan E. Corradi (New York University) Delia M. Boylan (Chicago Public Radio) Riordan Roett (Johns Hopkins University) Martíiacute;n Tanaka (Institute for Peruvian Studies Lima) and Kenneth M. Roberts (University of New Mexico). </P></DIV>