The Political Economy of Protest and Patience : East European and Latin American Trasformations Compared /
Greskovits, Béla
The Political Economy of Protest and Patience : East European and Latin American Trasformations Compared / Béla Greskovits. - 1 online resource (246 p.)
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Tables -- List of Abbreviations -- Chapter 1. Introduction: Good-bye Breakdown Prophecies, Hello Poor Democracies -- Chapter 2. Crises and Neoliberal Transformations in the 1980s and 1990s -- Chapter 3. The Loneliness of the Economic Reformer -- Chapter 4. Local Reformers and Foreign Advisers -- Chapter 5. The Social Response to Economic Hardship -- Chapter 6. Rethinking Populism under Postcommunism -- Chapter 7. Populist Transformation Strategies: The Hungarian Case in Comparative Perspective -- Chapter 8. Compensation as a Government Tactic -- Chapter 9. Conflict, Social Pact, and Democratic Development in Transforming Hungary -- Chapter 10. Crisis-proof, Poor Democracies -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
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Despite gloomy prophecies, democracy and the market economy seem to be taking root throughout Central and Eastern Europe, although set against a background of a recession deeper and longer than that of the Great Depression. How is this possible? Why did Eastern Europeans protest less about the brutal social consequences of systemic change than the people of Latin America a decade earlier? Why has the region-wide authoritarian or populist turnabout not occurred? Why has democracy in these countries proved to be crisis-proof? In what ways has economic crisis impacted on the politics of the region? In addressing these questions, Béla Greskovits uses a comparative analysis of the structures, institutions, cultures, and actors shaping both the Eastern European and the Latin American transformations. He argues that structural, institutional, and cultural factors have put a brake on destabilizing collective actions and have paved the way for the emergence of the enduring, low-level equilibrium between incomplete democracy and imperfect market economy which seems set to characterize the Central and Eastern European experience for the foreseeable future.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9789633865439
10.1515/9789633865439 doi
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy.
Democracy. Hungary. neoliberalism.
The Political Economy of Protest and Patience : East European and Latin American Trasformations Compared / Béla Greskovits. - 1 online resource (246 p.)
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- List of Tables -- List of Abbreviations -- Chapter 1. Introduction: Good-bye Breakdown Prophecies, Hello Poor Democracies -- Chapter 2. Crises and Neoliberal Transformations in the 1980s and 1990s -- Chapter 3. The Loneliness of the Economic Reformer -- Chapter 4. Local Reformers and Foreign Advisers -- Chapter 5. The Social Response to Economic Hardship -- Chapter 6. Rethinking Populism under Postcommunism -- Chapter 7. Populist Transformation Strategies: The Hungarian Case in Comparative Perspective -- Chapter 8. Compensation as a Government Tactic -- Chapter 9. Conflict, Social Pact, and Democratic Development in Transforming Hungary -- Chapter 10. Crisis-proof, Poor Democracies -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec
Despite gloomy prophecies, democracy and the market economy seem to be taking root throughout Central and Eastern Europe, although set against a background of a recession deeper and longer than that of the Great Depression. How is this possible? Why did Eastern Europeans protest less about the brutal social consequences of systemic change than the people of Latin America a decade earlier? Why has the region-wide authoritarian or populist turnabout not occurred? Why has democracy in these countries proved to be crisis-proof? In what ways has economic crisis impacted on the politics of the region? In addressing these questions, Béla Greskovits uses a comparative analysis of the structures, institutions, cultures, and actors shaping both the Eastern European and the Latin American transformations. He argues that structural, institutional, and cultural factors have put a brake on destabilizing collective actions and have paved the way for the emergence of the enduring, low-level equilibrium between incomplete democracy and imperfect market economy which seems set to characterize the Central and Eastern European experience for the foreseeable future.
Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
In English.
9789633865439
10.1515/9789633865439 doi
POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy.
Democracy. Hungary. neoliberalism.