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This book uses a multi-method approach to challenge the notion that financial markets exert a broad influence over economic policy making in emerging economies.
List of contents
1. Globalization, democracy, and market discipline; 2. Between votes and capital: redistribution and uncertainty in unequal democracies; 3. Investors' 'vote' in presidential elections; 4. The politics of currency booms and crises: explaining the influence of the investors' 'vote'; 5. Currency crisis, policy switch, and ideological convergence: presidential elections in Brazil; 6. Exogenous shocks and investors' political clout: presidential elections in Ecuador; 7. Controlling for incumbency: financial markets' influence in Chávez's Venezuela; 8. 'Vivir con lo nuestro': default and market discipline in Argentina; 9. Who governs?: market discipline in the developed world; 10. Conclusion.
About the author
Daniela Campello is an Assistant Professor of Politics and International Affairs at the Getúlio Vargas Foundation (FGV), Brazil. Before joining the FGV in July 2013, Campello was an Assistant Professor of Politics and International Affairs in the Department of Politics and at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University, New Jersey. Her work has been published in Comparative Political Studies, the Oxford Handbook of Latin American Political Economy, and in edited volumes published in the United States, Spain, Uruguay, and Brazil.
Summary
Daniela Campello uses a multi-method approach to challenge the notion that financial markets exert a broad influence over economic policy making in emerging economies. In Latin America, this influence varies between countries and over time, depending on cycles of currency booms and crises that are swayed by international commodity prices and US interest rates.
