Description: Presidents Without Parties : The Politics of Economic Reform in Argentina and Venezuela in the 1990s, Paperback by Corrales, Javier, ISBN 0271023554, ISBN-13 9780271023557, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US Most studies about the politics of economic reform focus on the struggles between the state and interest groups or opposition political parties. In this book Javier Corrales argues instead that the key struggle is between the executive and the ruling party. Deep economic transformations require cooperation from the ruling party. This support allows the state to sustain societal support and simultaneously ward off the potentially paralyzing influence of interest groups. Without such cooperation, the executive loses credibility and the political fortitude necessary to neutralize the opposition from skeptical as well as cost-bearing sectors of society. Presidents Without Parties puts this argument to the test by examining closely what happened in Argentina and Venezuela during the 1990s. Similarly situated when they embarked on economic reform in 1989, Argentina experienced success, with the reformers reelected in 1995, whereas Venezuela saw its reformers’ efforts fail, leading to a prolonged crisis. Corrales shows precisely how the executive’s relationship with the ruling party shaped the different outcomes in the two countries. He then applies this argument to eight other cases of market reform in Latin American countries in the 1990s. This book resuscitates and refines the ancient but often forgotten argument that political parties are indispensable for governability. In an era in which it is trendy to discount the usefulness of parties and to celebrate extrapartisan institutions, Corrales offers a reconsideration of the costs of trying to govern in the absence of competitive parties.
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Book Title: Presidents Without Parties : The Politics of Economic Reform in A
Number of Pages: 384 Pages
Publication Name: Presidents Without Parties : the Politics of Economic Reform in Argentina and Venezuela in the 1990s
Language: English
Publisher: Pennsylvania STATE University Press
Subject: History & Theory, Modern / 20th Century, Economic Conditions, Political Process / Political Parties, Public Policy / Economic Policy, Latin America / South America
Publication Year: 2003
Item Height: 0.8 in
Item Weight: 19.1 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 9 in
Author: Javier Corrales
Subject Area: Political Science, Business & Economics, History
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
