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there is much literature analyzing the politics of implementing economic
reforms, very little has been written on the social and political
consequences of such reforms after they have been implemented. The
basic premise of this book is that the convergence of many social,
economic, and political ills (such as high levels of poverty, income
inequality, criminal violence, and the growth of the informal sector)
in the context of unprecedented levels of political democratization
in Latin America presents a paradox that needs to be explained. What
Kind of Democracy? demonstrates how the myriad social problems
throughout the region are intimately linked both to a new economic
development model and the weaknesses of Latin American democracy.
This volume brings together prominent scholars from Canada, the
United States, and Latin America, representing several different
disciplines to analyze ongoing processes of economic, social, and
political change in the region. The contributors are Luiz Carlos
Bresser Pereira, Yoshiaki Nakano, Werner Baer, Claudio Paiva, Jorge
Schvarzer, Jean-François Prud'homme, Juan Alberto Fuentes
K., Manuel Barrera, Francisco Zapata, and Francisco Weffort. |
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