Andy Baker

The Market and the Masses in Latin America

Policy Reform and Consumption in Liberalizing Economies

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Produktbeschreibung

Baker argues that a new political economy of consumption has replaced a previously dominant politics of labor and class in Latin America.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 358
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Februar 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 21mm
• Gewicht: 581g
• ISBN-13: 9780521156233
• ISBN-10: 0521156238
• Artikelnr.: 30204673

Autorenporträt

Andy Baker is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Colorado, Boulder. His research on mass political behavior, political economy, and electoral systems has been published in the American Journal of Political Science, DuBois Review, Electoral Studies, World Politics, and various edited volumes. He has also been a contributor on two National Science Foundation grants and a recipient of two Social Science Research Council fellowships. He received his PhD from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 2001 and previously taught at the University of Houston and Northeastern University, Boston.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I. Introduction and Theory: 1. Consuming the Washington consensus
2. Theoretical framework: the top-down and bottom-up sources of public opinion
Part II. Mass Beliefs about Market Policies in Latin America: 3. The economic consequences and elite rhetoric of market reform in Latin America
4. Are Latin Americans neoliberals?
5. Are the poor neoliberals?
Part III. Mass Support for Reform in Brazil: 6. The economic consequences and elite rhetoric of market reform in Brazil
7. How many Brazilians support market reforms?
8. Which Brazilians support market reforms?
Part IV. Conclusion: 9. The politics of consumismo in Latin America.