Latin America A New Interpretation

by Whitehead, Laurence

• ISBN13: 9781403971319
• ISBN10: 1403971315
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2006-01-24
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This innovative contribution to comparative area studies evaluates Latin America's distinctiveness, and shows how 'large regions' can be compared. The overwhelming impact of Europe followed by precocious independence produced an exceptional outward orientation, which has prompted successive waves of reform 'from above and without', often resisted and superceded rather than fully assimilated. This book explores the resulting patterns that can be observed in multiple domains, through the optic of a 'mausoleum of modernity.' By applying this perspective to state organization, the politics of expertise, privatization, poverty and inequality, and citizenship insecurity, it generates an overall new interpretation of Latin America's regional distinctiveness.

Author Biography

Laurence Whitehead is Official Fellow in Politics and Acting Warden of Nuffield College.

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Table of Contents

Introduction * The Politics of Expertise in Latin America: Antecedents and Actualities * Privatization and the Public Interest: Partial Theories, Lopsided Outcomes * Economies in Mexico: The Power of Ideas, the Ideas of Power * Beyond Neo-Liberalism: Bolivia’s Capitalization as a Route to the Universal Entitlement and Substantive Citizenship Rights? * The Shifting Foundations of Economic Liberalism in Latin American Public Policy * Democratization and Social Injustice

Introduction * The Politics of Expertise in Latin America: Antecedents and Actualities * Privatization and the Public Interest: Partial Theories, Lopsided Outcomes * Economies in Mexico: The Power of Ideas, the Ideas of Power * Beyond Neo-Liberalism: Bolivia’s Capitalization as a Route to the Universal Entitlement and Substantive Citizenship Rights? * The Shifting Foundations of Economic Liberalism in Latin American Public Policy * Democratization and Social Injustice