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Democracia en América Latina apert ura económica, populismo y crisis

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Title Democracia en América Latina apert ura económica, populismo y crisis
 
Creator Rodríguez Echeverría, Miguel Ángel
 
Subject Democracia
Consenso de Washington
populismo
desencanto
gradualidad
cambio político
eficiencia
Democracy
Washington Consensus
populism
disenchantment
marginal
political change
efficiency
 
Description After 1979, Latin America adopted broadbased reforms, abandoning import substitution industrialization for an export oriented development strategy and simultaneously adopting democratic forms of government. The new economic policies of open trade, balanced public budgets, monetary orthodoxy, exchange rate neutrality and more competitive and free internal markets are established at the same time that democracies start to operate in the Latin American Republics. What are the interactions between economic and political reforms? Is the simultaneity of economic and political institutions the cause of the disenchantment with democracy at the beginning of the XXI Century? This article analysizes these questions and reaches a negative answer. The thesis that complete and rational transformations are not possible determines that institutions must be transformed by marginal, gradual, evolutionary change, supported by strong coalitions of citizens. The future of democracy and open markets in the region depends on reinforcing political and economic institutional transformations, supported by broad coalitions that piecemeal evolve to more open organizations.
 
Publisher Universidad de Costa Rica
 
Date 2011-01-01
 
Type info:eu-repo/semantics/article
info:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion
 
Format application/pdf
 
Identifier http://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/economicas/article/view/7015
 
Source Revista de Ciencias Económicas; Ciencias Económicas : Volumen 29, Número 2
Revista de Ciencias Económicas; Ciencias Económicas : Volumen 29, Número 2
2215-3489
0252-9521
 
Language spa
 
Relation http://revistas.ucr.ac.cr/index.php/economicas/article/view/7015/6700
 
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