Leftist Governments in Latin America: Successes and Shortcomings

Half-title......Page 3
Title......Page 5
Copyright......Page 6
Contents......Page 7
Acknowledgments......Page 9
Acronyms and Abbreviations......Page 11
Contributors......Page 15
1 The Performance of Leftist Governments in Latin America......Page 19
The central task and dilemma of the left......Page 24
Efforts to stimulate economic development despite the strictures of globalization......Page 28
Efforts to promote social justice despite resource constraints......Page 30
Attempts to deepen democracy without undermining it......Page 31
Democracy as the most fundamental concern......Page 33
Causes of moderation versus contestatory postures......Page 35
Organizational Characteristics of Governing Parties......Page 36
Institutional Setting and State of Party System......Page 37
The Impact of Market Reform......Page 38
Natural Resource Endowments......Page 39
Contributions of the volume......Page 40
The organization of the volume......Page 43
2 The Repeating Revolution......Page 46
New politics: increasing the costs of being in the opposition......Page 47
Postconstitutional Informal Expansion of Presidential Powers......Page 48
Freedom of Expression......Page 51
The 2007 Constitutional Reform Referendum......Page 53
The “Coup” against Elected Opposition Leaders......Page 55
The Return of ISI......Page 57
Modified ISI......Page 61
Social Policies, Clientelism, and Cronyism......Page 63
The Ax-Relax-Collapse Cycle All Over Again......Page 65
The Relax Phase......Page 66
The Collapse Phase......Page 67
Oil Booms......Page 68
Oil Busts......Page 71
conclusion......Page 73
3 The Challenge of Progressive Change under Evo Morales......Page 75
Procedural Differences: Disagreeing on the Rules......Page 76
Substantive Differences: New Constitution and Draft Statutes......Page 79
An Eclectic Policy Agenda......Page 82
Nationalization and Increased Government Take......Page 83
Expanded Social Transfers and Increased Public Investment......Page 84
Challenges beyond the neoliberal model......Page 86
Bolivias Position in the Global Economy......Page 87
Missed opportunities: fair, organic, and biotrade, and alliances between producers......Page 88
Politics, Part of the Solution......Page 89
Politics, the Tipping Point......Page 92
Conclusions......Page 93
The Challenge of Progressive Change......Page 94
Political constraints and management......Page 95
Economic management......Page 100
Social policy and labor legislation......Page 106
conclusion......Page 113
5 From Cardoso to Lula......Page 116
Lula and the pt in brazil: what is a leftist party?......Page 118
From collor to lula: lessons about stability......Page 120
Macroeconomic Data and Policy......Page 123
Social Indicators and Policy......Page 129
Economic growth and poverty......Page 133
Income transfer programs and poverty (nonlabor income)......Page 134
Public investment and poverty......Page 135
PT Performance vis-à-vis Institutions......Page 137
Conclusion......Page 140
6 Lula’s Administration at a Crossroads......Page 142
The consolidation of a new pattern of capital accumulation......Page 144
Public perceptions of brazil’s socioeconomic and political situation......Page 148
Prospects of Future Economic Growth......Page 149
Overall Assessment of the Socioeconomic and Political Situation......Page 150
The limitations of the current public agenda......Page 152
The need for a new development model......Page 154
Introduction......Page 158
Characteristics, environments, and strategies of the two lefts......Page 161
Political strategies and performance......Page 163
Institutional reform efforts......Page 164
Relations with the opposition......Page 166
Efforts at mass inclusion......Page 167
Overall assessment of democratic performance......Page 169
Economic policy and performance......Page 171
Macroeconomic policy......Page 172
Efforts to transform the market model......Page 173
Evaluation of economic performance......Page 176
Determined redistribution?......Page 178
Equity-enhancing programs......Page 180
Performance on social indicators......Page 183
The performance of other left-leaning governments in latin america......Page 185
preliminary answers to big questions......Page 194
The wisdom of aesop......Page 198
Bibliography......Page 199
Index......Page 219