Economic Crisis and Policy Choice : : The Politics of Adjustment in the Third World / / ed. by Joan M. Nelson.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
• MitwirkendeR: Callaghy, Thomas M.,; Haggard, Stephan,; Kahler, Miles,; Kaufman, Robert R.,; Nelson, Joan M.,; Stallings, Barbara,
• HerausgeberIn: Nelson, Joan M.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2021]; ©1990
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (392 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Figures and Tables --; Contributors --; Preface --; CHAPTER ONE Introduction: The Politics of Economic Adjustment in Developing Nations --; CHAPTER TWO Orthodoxy and Its Alternatives: Explaining Approaches to Stabilization and Adjustment --; CHAPTER THREE Stabilization and Adjustment in Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico --; CHAPTER FOUR Politics and Economic Crisis: A Comparative Study of Chile, Peru, and Colombia --; CHAPTER FIVE The Politics of Adjustment in Small Democracies: Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, and Jamaica --; CHAPTER SIX The Political Economy of the Philippine Debt Crisis --; CHAPTER SEVEN Lost Between State and Market: The Politics of Economic Adjustment in Ghana, Zambia, and Nigeria --; CHAPTER EIGHT Conclusions --; Statistical Appendix: Thirteen Countries, 1979-1988 --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9780691228150; 9783110442496; 9783110784237
• DOI: 10.1515/9780691228150?locatt=mode:legacy
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: ed. by Joan M. Nelson.

The acute economic pressures of the 1980s have forced virtually all of Latin America and Africa and some countries in Asia into painful austerity programs and difficult economic reforms. Scholars have intensively analyzed the economics of this situation, but they have given much less attention to the political forces involved. In this volume a number of eminent contributors analyze the politics of adjustment in thirteen countries and nineteen governments, drawing comparisons not only across the full set of cases but also within clusters selected to clarify specific issues. Why do some governments respond promptly to signs of economic trouble, while others muddle indecisively for years? Why do some confine their response to temporary macroeconomic measures, while others adopt broader, even sweeping, programs of reform? What leads some countries to experiment with heterodox approaches, while most, however reluctantly, pursue orthodox courses? Why, confronted with intense political protest, have some governments persisted while others have altered or abandoned course? The answers to these questions are political, not economic, and they are examined here by Thomas M. Callaghy, Stephan Haggard, Miles Kahler, Robert R. Kauman, Joan M. Nelson, and Barbara Stallings.