During the 1990s Argentina was the only country in Latin America
to combine radical economic reform and full democracy. In 2001,
however, the country fell into a deep political and economic crisis
and was widely seen as a basket case. This book explores both
developments, examining the links between the (real and apparent)
successes of the 1990s and the 2001 collapse. Specific topics
include economic policymaking and reform, executive-legislative
relations, the judiciary, federalism, political parties and the
party system, and new patterns of social protest.
Beyond its empirical analysis, the book contributes to several
theoretical debates in comparative politics. Contemporary studies
of political institutions focus almost exclusively on institutional
design, neglecting issues of enforcement and stability. Yet a major
problem in much of Latin America is that institutions of diverse
types have often failed to take root.
Besides examining the effects of institutional weakness, the
book also uses the Argentine case to shed light on four other areas
of current debate: tensions between radical economic reform and
democracy; political parties and contemporary crises of
representation; links between subnational and national politics;
and the transformation of state-society relations in the
post-corporatist era.
Besides the editors, the contributors are Javier Auyero, Ernesto
Calvo, Kent Eaton, Sebastian Etchemendy, Gretchen Helmke, Wonjae
Hwang, Mark Jones, Enrique Peruzzotti, Pablo T. Spiller, Mariano
Tommasi, and Juan Carlos Torre.
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