Sebastián Etchemendy

Models of Economic Liberalization

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Produktbeschreibung

This book shows that liberalizing governments across Ibero-America often forge alliances with protected actors such as unions and domestic business.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 374
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. November 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 240mm x 161mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 796g
• ISBN-13: 9780521763127
• ISBN-10: 0521763126
• Artikelnr.: 33129775

Autorenporträt

Sebastián Etchemendy is Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science and International Studies, Torcuato Di Tella University, Argentina. He holds a B.A. from the University of Buenos Aires and a Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley. He has published in the journals Comparative Politics, Comparative Political Studies, Politics and Society and Desarrollo Económico, as well as in edited volumes on Argentine and Latin American politics. He won the Fulbright Fellowship for graduate studies in the United States and the Social Science Research Council (SSRC) Dissertation Fellowship. His dissertation, on which this book is based, was nominated by the Department of Political Science at Berkeley for the Almond Prize for Best Dissertation at the American Political Science Association. In 2007, he served as Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of Political Science at Stanford University.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. The Intellectual Terrain: 1. Overview: models of economic
liberalization in ISI economies; 2. From state to society: neoliberal
reform and a theory of compensation in ISI economies; Part II. The
Political Economy of Business Adjustment: 3. Compensating business
insiders: the origins of statist and corporatist models in Spain and
Argentina; 4. Statist and corporatist models of business adjustment in
Spain and Argentina: sectoral case studies; 5. Exceptions that prove the
rule: variations within countries in models of business adjustment; Part
III. The Political Economy of Labor Adjustment: 6. Compensating labor
insiders: the origins of statist and corporatist models in Spain and
Argentina; 7. Statist and corporatist models of labor adjustment in Spain
and Argentina: sectoral case studies; Part IV. The Market Model: 8. The
market path to economic liberalization: Chile in the comparative framework;
Part V. Comparative Perspectives in Ibero-America: 9. Models of economic
liberalization in Brazil, Portugal, Peru, and Mexico; 10. Conclusions:
legacies for the liberalized economies and varieties of capitalism in
Ibero-America.