The Political Economy of Protest and Patience: East European and Latin American Transformations ComparedCentral European University Press, 1998. jan. 1. - 233 oldal 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? In addressing these questions, this book uses a comparative analysis of the structures, institutions, cultures, and actors shaping both the Eastern. |
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The Loneliness of the Economic Reformer | 35 |
Local Reformers and Foreign Advisers | 53 |
The Social Response to Economic Hardship | 69 |
Rethinking Populism under Postcommunism | 93 |
Populist Transformation Strategies The Hungarian Case in Comparative Perspective | 115 |
Compensation as a Government Taetic | 137 |
Conflict Social Paet and Demoeratie Development in Transforming Hungary | 155 |
Crisisproof Poor Demoeracies | 177 |
Notes | 189 |
Bibliography | 199 |
Index | 219 |
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7. oldal - As liberals, most of them presumed that "all good things go together" and took it for granted that if only a good job could be done in raising the national income of the countries concerned, a number of beneficial effects would follow in the social, political, and cultural realms. When it turned out...
101. oldal - As we saw in chapter 3, economic populism in the 1970s emphasized growth and income redistribution and deemphasized the risks of inflation and deficit finance, external constraints, and the reaction of economic agents to aggressive nonmarket policies.1 The populist political culture encouraged spending, which was made possible by favorable conditions in the international financial markets.
186. oldal - ... neo-Taylorist form of organization), little access to training, few possibilities for internal mobility in the company, impediments to collective negotiation, low levels of participation and, sometimes, subjection to authoritarian relations in the workplace.
88. oldal - They must be willing to accept defeats and to wait, confident that these institutions will offer opportunities the next time around. They must adopt the institutional calendar as the temporal horizon of their actions, thinking in terms of forthcoming elections, contract negotiations, or, at least, fiscal years.
20. oldal - Washington" was defined for these purposes as encompassing "both the political Washington of Congress and senior members of the administration, and the technocratic Washington of the international financial institutions, the economic agencies of the US government, the Federal Reserve Board, and the think tanks.
174. oldal - ... medium-intensity citizenship," modest redistribution, and reasonable economic growth are not to be disdained. Fourth Scenario: Dual Democratic Regimes In the fourth scenario (S4), state elites seek to establish an alliance with a strategic minority of the opposition for the purpose of excluding the majority of the remaining social actors by disarticulating and neutralizing their capacity for collective action.
31. oldal - ... support. Any government needs both active political support and at least a minimum of civil obedience from targeted pressure groups (Clarke, 1992, p. 1). Gourevitch makes the point in relation to the role of active support when concluding that: To become policy, ideas must link up with politics - the mobilization of consent for policy. Politics involves power. Even a good idea cannot become policy if it meets certain kinds of opposition, and a bad idea can become policy if it is able to obtain...
179. oldal - Elderly people in general, and pensioners in particular, could not strike or riot even if they felt aggrieved. Similarly, the rural population rarely strike because they lack organization and could not riot 'efficiently' because they were dispersed in the countryside.
192. oldal - Considering what we have called the tightly staged character of late late industrialization it may in fact be preferable for the governments of the late late industrializing countries to be run by tecnicos, by groups of planner-technicians, rather than by the new industrialists themselves. It has been in fact due to the regulations issued by the tecnicos of the Kubitschek administration that backward linkage was enforced rapidly in the Brazilian automotive industry in the late fifties. In Mexico,...