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Market Reform in Society : Post-Crisis Politics and Economic Change in Authoritarian Peru / Moisés Arce.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: University Park, PA : Penn State University Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©2005Description: 1 online resource (184 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9780271033082
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 306.3/0985 22
LOC classification:
  • HC227 .A772 2005eb
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- acknowledgments -- list of figures and tables -- listof acronyms -- Introduction -- Rethinking the Consequences of Neoliberal Policy Reform -- Fujimori as Market Maker -- The Battle for Taxes -- The Privatization of Pensions -- Social-Sector Reforms -- Postneoliberalism Politics -- bibliography -- index
Summary: Going beyond the usual state-centric approach to the study of the politics of neoliberal reform, Moisés Arce emphasizes the importance of understanding the interaction between state reformers and collective actors in society. In Market Reform in Society he helpfully focuses our attention on how various societal groups are affected by different types of reform and how their responses in turn affect the state's subsequent pursuit of reform. As a country characterized by strong state autonomy and widespread disintegration of civil society and representative institutions during the 1990s when Alberto Fujimori was president, Peru serves as an excellent case for examining how collective actors can succeed in influencing the reform process. Arce compares reforms in three areas: taxation, pension privatization, and social-sector programs in poverty alleviation and health decentralization. Differences in the concentration or dispersion of costs and benefits, he shows, affected incentives for groups to form and engage in collective action for supporting, opposing, or modifying the reforms.

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- acknowledgments -- list of figures and tables -- listof acronyms -- Introduction -- Rethinking the Consequences of Neoliberal Policy Reform -- Fujimori as Market Maker -- The Battle for Taxes -- The Privatization of Pensions -- Social-Sector Reforms -- Postneoliberalism Politics -- bibliography -- index

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Going beyond the usual state-centric approach to the study of the politics of neoliberal reform, Moisés Arce emphasizes the importance of understanding the interaction between state reformers and collective actors in society. In Market Reform in Society he helpfully focuses our attention on how various societal groups are affected by different types of reform and how their responses in turn affect the state's subsequent pursuit of reform. As a country characterized by strong state autonomy and widespread disintegration of civil society and representative institutions during the 1990s when Alberto Fujimori was president, Peru serves as an excellent case for examining how collective actors can succeed in influencing the reform process. Arce compares reforms in three areas: taxation, pension privatization, and social-sector programs in poverty alleviation and health decentralization. Differences in the concentration or dispersion of costs and benefits, he shows, affected incentives for groups to form and engage in collective action for supporting, opposing, or modifying the reforms.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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