Development and Semi-periphery : Post-neoliberal Trajectories in South America and Central Eastern Europe

by Boschi, Renato; Santana, Carlos Henrique

• ISBN13: 9780857284402
• ISBN10: 0857284401
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2012-03-15
• Publisher: Anthem Pr

Summary

This book is a collection of articles focusing on comparative analysis of the development trajectories in the semi-periphery countries of South America and Central and Eastern Europe. The book tries to approach the dilemmas of development in the semi-periphery as diversely as possible, always emphasising the variety of trajectories as a crucial factor. Therefore there are evaluations of the role of cognitive regimes produced by professional fields as elements of collective action coordination and as beacons that fix State-society relations. As opposed to the transitology studies that were prevalent in the 1990s, and that treated the neoliberal context in these two regions separately, the articles in this volume instead offer a new comparative analysis about the consequences of the neoliberal reforms and the new actors that deal with these results.

Author Biography

Renato Boschi holds a PhD in political science from the University of Michigan, and is currently Full Professor in Political Science at the Institute of Social and Political Studies, IESP-UERJ. Carlos Henrique Santana holds a PhD in political science from the Institute of Social and Political Studies, IESP-UERJ, was formerly Assistant Professor in Political Science at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), and is currently a researcher at the International Celso Furtado Center for Development Policies and at the NEIC-IESP.

Table of Contents

List of Tables and Figures	p. vii
Introduction	p. 1
Development, Macroeconomic Policies and Varieties of Capitalism
Postsocialist States in the System of Global Capitalism: A Comparative Perspective	p. 19
Politics and Development: Lessons from Latin America	p. 45
Managing the Faustian Bargain: Monetary Autonomy in the Pursuit of Development in Eastern Europe and Latin America	p. 65
Development and Dependency, Developmentalism and Alternatives	p. 83
Political Culture, Identity Politics and Political Contention
Indigenous Movements in Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru	p. 105
Path Dependence versus Adaptation in Estonian Ethnopolitic	p. 123
Integration Parliaments in Europe and Latin America: Explaining Variations	p. 141
Ideas and the Role of Elites and Advocacy Networks: Translating and Legitimating the Frontiers of Institutional Reforms
Marketing Professional Expertise by (Re)Inventing States: Professional Rivalries between Lawyers and Economists as Hegemonic Strategies in the International Market for the Reproduction of National State Elites	p. 165
Identity, Policy Preferences and the Perception of the European Integration Process among the Hungarian Elites	p. 181
Critical Junctures, Institutional Legacies and Epistemic Communities: A Development Agenda in Brazil	p. 201
Economic Reforms, Public Policies and Development
Development and Citizenship in the Semi-periphery: Reflecting on the Brazilian Experience	p. 239
The Periphery Paradox in Innovation Policy: Latin America and Eastern Europe Compared	p. 265
The Lula Government and the Social Democratic Experience in Brazil	p. 305
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