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This book shows that liberalizing governments across Ibero-America often forge alliances with protected actors such as unions and domestic business.
List of contents
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.
About the author
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.
