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The Political Economy Of Argentina
Economic developments in Argentina over the last half-century present a puzzle to observers: Before World War II, the nation's per capita income and standard of living were comparable to those in countries like Canada and Australia; today, Argentina is submerged in deep economic, social, and political crises. In analyzing the events that led to this reversal, the author enhances our understanding of the phenomenon of arrested economic development in Argentina and similar developing countries.
Dr. Peralta-Ramos approaches the problem with a dialectical interpretation of contemporary Argentinian history, examining crucial economic and political developments since 1930 from the standpoint of class interests in conflict. She discusses early government strategies for industrialization and their consequences for economic growth and institutional stability, maintaining that state policies generated a struggle for the appropriation of income and, ultimately, for control of the state, not only between the middle classes and the urban working class but also between the agrarian and industrial sectors of the bourgeoisie. The ensuing political instability led to further fluctuations in economic policy, to an erosion of institutional legitimacy, and, eventually, to state terrorism. Ongoing political crisis, war, and military rule, as well as soaring speculation and dwindling capital, hastened the downward spiral of the Argentinian economy.
Dr. Peralta-Ramos offers in this book an innovative theoretical approach for examining how power relations can inhibit economic development and produce a fragile institutional system that threatens democracy.
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Argentina’s partisan past
Argentina’s Partisan Past is a challenging new study about the production, the spread and the use of understandings of national history and identity for political purposes in twentieth-century Argentina. Based on extensive research of primary and published sources, it analyses how nationalist views about what it meant to be Argentine were built into the country’s long drawn-out crisis of liberal democracy from the 1930s to the 1980s. Eschewing the notion of any straightforward relationship between cultural customs, ideas and political practices, the study seeks to provide a more nuanced framework for understanding the interplay between popular culture, intellectuals and the state in the promotion, co-option and repression of conflicting narratives about the nation’s history. Particular attention is given to the conditions for the production and the political use of cultural goods, especially the writings of historians. The intimate linkage between history and politics, it is argued, helped Argentina’s partisan past of the period following independence to cast its shadow onto the middle decades of the twentieth century. This process is scrutinised within the framework of recent approaches to the study of nationalism, in an attempt to communicate the major scholarly debates of this field with the case of Argentina. The book is a valuable resource to both students of Argentine history and those interested in the ways in which nationalism has shaped our contemporary world.
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Social capital in developing democracies : Nicaragua and Argentina compared
\"Drawing on extensive field work in Nicaragua and Argentina, as well as public opinion and elite data, Leslie E. Anderson's Social Capital in Developing Democracies explores the contribution of social capital to the process of democratization and the limits of that contribution. Anderson finds that in Nicaragua, strong, positive, bridging social capital has enhanced democratization while in Argentina the legacy of Peronism has created bonding and non-democratic social capital that perpetually undermines the development of democracy. Faced with the reality of an anti-democratic form of social capital, Anderson suggests that Argentine democracy is developing on the basis of an alternative resource - institutional capital. Anderson concludes that social capital can and does enhance democracy under historical conditions that have created horizontal ties among citizens, but that social capital can also undermine democratization where historical conditions have created vertical ties with leaders and suspicion or non-cooperation among citizens\"--Provided by publisher.
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The Right to the City
Based on extensive, original fieldwork, as well as new survey
data, The Right to the City contributes to the study of
democratization by focusing on the dilemmas and opportunities of
popular contention in the city of Buenos Aires. It also offers an
excellent overview of the history of social mobilization in
Argentina. Gabriela Ippolito-O'Donnell's main assertion in this
study is that through various channels of collective action and
associational activities, as well as by voting, the urban popular
sector is a fundamental actor in the pursuit of the expansion and
consolidation of citizenship rights. Using both qualitative
analysis and quantitative data, Ippolito-O'Donnell explores what
factors-economic, politico-institutional, organizational, and
subjective-account for the emergence in the 1980s, and collapse in
the 1990s, of a wave of grassroots popular organizations in Villa
Lugano, a poor neighborhood located in the south of Buenos Aires.
She identifies factors crucial for explaining the organizational
weakness and concomitant cyclical patterns of collective action by
the urban poor, as well as the consequences for alleviating poverty
and inequality in this newly democratized nation.
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Consent of the Damned
Under violent military dictatorship, Operation Condor and the Dirty War scarred Argentina from the mid-1970s to the early 1980s, leaving behind a legacy of repression, state terror, and political murder. Even today, the now-democratic Argentine government attempts to repair the damage of these atrocities by making human rights a policy priority.
But what about the other Dirty War, during which Argentine civilians--including indigenous populations--and foreign powers ignored and even abetted the state's vicious crimes against humanity? In this groundbreaking new work, David Sheinin draws on previously classified Argentine government documents, human rights lawsuits, and archived propaganda to illustrate the military-constructed fantasy of bloodshed as a public defense of human rights.
Exploring the reactions of civilians and the international community to the daily carnage, Sheinin unearths how compliance with the dictatorship perpetuated the violence that defined a nation. This new approach to the history of human rights in Argentina will change how we understand dictatorship, democracy, and state terror.
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Dictatorship in South America
Dictatorship in South America explores the experiences of Brazilian, Argentine and Chilean experience under military rule.
* Presents a single-volume thematic study that explores experiences with dictatorship as well as their social and historical contexts in Latin America
* Examines at the ideological and economic crossroads that brought Argentina, Brazil and Chile under the thrall of military dictatorship
* Draws on recent historiographical currents from Latin America to read these regimes as radically ideological and inherently unstable
* Makes a close reading of the economic trajectory from dependency to development and democratization and neoliberal reform in language that is accessible to general readers
* Offers a lively and readable narrative that brings popular perspectives to bear on national histories
Selected as a 2014 Outstanding Academic Title by CHOICE
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