Democracy, Distributional Conflicts and Macroeconomic Policymaking in Argentina, 1983-89
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4793526 |
|---|---|
| Authors | William C Smith (0000-0002-6257-7695) |
| Year | 1990 |
| Volume | 32 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 1-42 |
| Publication date | 1990-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-1937 • E-ISSN: 2162-2736 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.2307/166007 |
| OpenAlex | W2783523586 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 27 |
| References cited | 7 |
In December 1983, when Raúl Alfonsín and his Radical party assumed responsibility for Argentina's transition from authoritarian dictatorship to democracy, the economy was mired in deep crisis. Rather than a repetition of the familiar "stop-go" cycles of previous decades, the mid-1980s crisis was more structural in nature, stemming from a perverse logic deeply rooted in contemporary Argentine capitalism. Few Argentines, regardless of ideological persuasion, doubted that major reforms were imperative if the country's post-1930 model of import-substitution industrialization was to avoid total collapse. For Argentina's fledgling democracy, the task at hand could not have been more daunting - to reverse what Alfonsín himself had referred to as "50 years of decadence
Authoritarianism · Capitalism · Decadence · Democracy · Development economics · Dictatorship · Economics · Ideology · Persuasion · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Economic Theory and Policy · Law · Philosophy · Political Economy and Marxism · Politics and Society in Latin America
Transforming Labor-Based Parties in Latin America
Arresting the Opposition
The Other Hand of God
Take the Money and Run
The mass media's dual role
Continuity and change in Argentine interest group activity and lobbying practices
Old Parties and New Democracies
Divergent Development
Explaining Latin American economic integration
Moral Theory and Policy Science
Luta Hegemônica e Populismo na América Latina
Neopopulism and neoliberalism in Latin America
Neoliberal restructuring and scenarios of democratic consolidation in Latin America
Distributional Coalitions and the Politics of Economic Reform in Latin America
Capital Mobility and Coalitional Politics
Sacrifice, Sequence, and Strength in Successful Dual Transitions
Coup with Adjectives
Social Pacts and Inflation Control in New Democracies
Swallowing the Bitter Pill
Authoritarian Attitudes, Democracy, and Policy Preferences among Latin American Elites
The Politics of Poverty in Argentina in the 1990s
State, Market and Neoliberalism in Post-Transition Argentina
Economic Reform and Democratization in Argentina and Uruguay
Counterhegemonic Strategies in Neoliberal Argentina
The return of the state in Argentina
The Political Economy of Elections in Latin America, 1980-1991
The Political Impact of Economic Crisis in Latin America in the 1980s
From Military Rule to Liberal Democracy in Argentina
Authoritarianism and the Crisis of the Argentine Political Economy
The Political Economy of Latin American Development
Las primeras elecciones sindicales en la transición democrática
Salarios e inflación en América Latina. Resultados de investigaciones recientes en la Argentina, Brasil, Colombia, Costa Rica y Chile
Argentina's Bargaining with the IMF
| Unique citing works | 27 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,77 |
| Citation span | 1991 - 2025 (35) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 27 |