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Technopols: Freeing Politics And Markets In Latin America In The 1990s

Jorge I. Domínguez

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In recent years first Chile, then Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico have abandoned decades-old authoritarian political regimes and state-directed economic strategies and moved toward democratized politics and freer markets.

This volume seeks to understand the key roles of "technopols"--technically skilled, politically savvy leaders--in these transformations. It is based in part on elite interviews with each of the leaders discussed: Domingo Cavallo of Argentina, Pedro Aspe of Mexico, Fernando Henrique Cardoso of Brazil, and Evelyn Matthei and Alejandro Foxley of Chile. All are major social scientists turned politicians who, the authors argue here, have themselves contributed to the formulation of the ideas that they eventually came to implement in their respective governments.

Contributors are Jorge I. Dominguez, Javier Corrales, Stephanie R. Cobb, Joao Resende-Santos, Delia M. Boylan, and Jeanne Kinney Giraldo.

Pages: 304

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Penn State University Press

Release: December 09, 1996

ISBN: 0271016132

ISBN 13: 9780271016139

Technopols: Freeing Politics And Markets In Latin America In The 1990s

Jorge I. Domínguez

4/5 ( ratings)

In recent years first Chile, then Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico have abandoned decades-old authoritarian political regimes and state-directed economic strategies and moved toward democratized politics and freer markets.

This volume seeks to understand the key roles of "technopols"--technically skilled, politically savvy leaders--in these transformations. It is based in part on elite interviews with each of the leaders discussed: Domingo Cavallo of Argentina, Pedro Aspe of Mexico, Fernando Henrique Cardoso of Brazil, and Evelyn Matthei and Alejandro Foxley of Chile. All are major social scientists turned politicians who, the authors argue here, have themselves contributed to the formulation of the ideas that they eventually came to implement in their respective governments.

Contributors are Jorge I. Dominguez, Javier Corrales, Stephanie R. Cobb, Joao Resende-Santos, Delia M. Boylan, and Jeanne Kinney Giraldo.

Pages: 304

Format: Hardcover

Publisher: Penn State University Press

Release: December 09, 1996

ISBN: 0271016132

ISBN 13: 9780271016139

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