Table of Contents

1. The Transformation of Latin American Populism - Demmers, Fernández Jilberto and Hogenboom 2. From Import Substitution Industrialization to the 'Open' Economy in Argentina - Miguel Teubal 3. The Neoliberal Ideological Transformation of Chilean Populism - Fernández Jilberto 4. The Cardoso Administration and Brazil's Transition to the Third Millennium - Karla Lemanski-Valente 5. Populism and Authoritarianism: An Old Vice of Peruvian Politics in the Neoliberal Era - Giuseppe Solfrini 6. Neo-liberalism, Economic Crisis and Popular Mobilization in Ecuador - Jean Carriere 7. Neoliberal Reform and Populist Politics: The PRI in Mexico - Jolle Demmers 8. The Double Defeat of the Revolutionary Left in Central America - Kees Biekart

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An examination of Latin American populism and its relationship to neoliberalism, this book covers a set of countries in South and Central America to track the political paths of each in terms of how they have adapted to free markets, privatisation, unemployment and increasing inequality.

About the Author

Jolle Demmers is a lecturer in development studies and urban sociology at Utrecht University, and managing editor of the Thela Latin America Series of Thela Thesis, Amsterdam. She is author of Friends and Bitter Enemies: Politics and Neoliberal Reform in Yucatan, Mexico (1998). Alex E. Fernandez Jilberto is a senior lecturer in international relations Section at the University of Amsterdam. His books include Institutional and Economic Changes in Latin America, Africa and Asia (1996) and Regionalization and Globalization in the Modern World Economy (1998). Barbara Hogenboom is a lecturer at CEDLA, the Centre for Latin American Research and Documentation in Amsterdam. Her books include Mexico and the NAFTA Environment Debate: The Transnational Politics of Economic Integration (1998).

Reviews

This book is well-written, free of jargon, and includes useful data and analyses.
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