TY  - BOOK
AU  - Greskovits,Béla
TI  - The Political Economy of Protest and Patience: East European and Latin American Trasformations Compared 
SN  - 9789633865439
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - Budapest, New York : 
PB  - Central European University Press, 
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Democracy
KW  - Hungary
KW  - neoliberalism
N1  - 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
N2  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9789633865439
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9789633865439
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9789633865439/original
ER  -