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Las economías políticas de América Latina han experimentado importantes cambios a partir de
la década del ochenta. La crisis de la deuda, el proceso de reformas de mercado, y las nuevas
alternativas de política económica a partir de la década del 2000 han comportado cambios de las
opciones de política económica, transformaciones importantes de la estructura productiva y
social, a la vez que la desorganización y restructuración de los clivajes políticos prexistentes.
Con distintas temporalidades, dichos procesos tuvieron lugar contra el trasfondo de la progresiva
consolidación de regímenes democráticos en la región.
Este curso tiene tres objetivos principales: en primer lugar, presentar los procesos que
caracterizaron las economías políticas de América Latina durante las tres últimas décadas. En
segundo lugar, discutir distintas estrategias analíticas y metodológicas con las que la sub-
disciplina ha abordado esos procesos. En tercer lugar, dado que la investigación académica sigue
procesos económicos y políticos de carácter abierto y cambiante, el tercio final del curso propone
indagar cuáles son actualmente las agendas de investigación con especial relevancia para la
región.
La propuesta del curso es trabajar con la modalidad de seminario. Con ese objetivo, al menos la
mitad de cada clase será reservada para la discusión sobre las lecturas de la semana. La
participación activa en esa discusión es un requisito para aprobar el curso. A fin de facilitar esa
dinámica, se requiere que para 5 de las 11 clases los alumnos envíen por mail dos preguntas de
discusión (o comentario o reflexión crítica) sobre las lecturas de la semana. Dichas preguntas
deberán ser enviadas hasta las 5 pm del miércoles a cfreytes@utdt.edu, con el asunto
EconPolAL2016.1 El envío de las preguntas en tiempo y forma será evaluado dentro de la nota
de participación.
ii) una presentación en clase sobre una o varias lecturas asignadas en una semana específica.
Como apoyo de esa presentación deberán entregar una reseña crítica de la/s lecturas/s (4-5
páginas espacio y medio letra cuerpo 11). La elección de la semana se hará en la primera
reunión. (20% de la calificación final).
iii) evaluación final (50%): a) un examen domiciliario de 72 horas (entrega de la consigna el 2/09
y devolución del examen 5/09); b) o un trabajo final sobre tema a elección; c) o una reseña de
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calidad publicable sobre un libro de edición reciente incluido en el programa. La modalidad de
evaluación es a elección del alumno, deberán comunicar su elección en la clase 7. Detalles
adicionales sobre cada modalidad de evaluación serán presentados en la primera clase.
Cronograma y lecturas
* Coatsworth, John (2008) “Inequality, Institutions, and Economic Growth in Latin America”,
JLAS 40: 545‐569
Kholi, Atul (2009): “Nationalist Versus Dependent Capitalist Development: Alternate Pathways
of Asia and Latin America in a Globalized World”. Studies in International Comparative
Development.
*Ocampo, José Antonio y Jaime Ros (2011) “Shifting Paradigms in Latin America’s Economic
Development”. En José A. Ocampo y J. Ros (eds.) The Oxford Handbook of Latin American
Economics. Oxford: Oxford University Press.
Edwards, S. (1995). Crisis and Reform in Latin America. From Despair to Hope. Cap. 1 y 4.
*Schneider, Ben Ross (2005) “La organización de los intereses económicos y las coaliciones
políticas en el proceso de las reformas de mercado en América Latina.” Desarrollo EconómicoNº
179: 349-372. (En inglés: Schneider, B. R. (2005). World Politics 56(3): 456-479.)
* Daniela Campello (2014) “The Politics of Financial Booms and Crises: Evidence From Latin
America”. Comparative Political Studies Vol 47(2) 260–286
*Kaplan. Stephen B. (2013) “Globalization and Austerity Politics”, “From Gunboat to Trading
Floor Diplomacy” y “When Latin America Grasshopper Become Ants”. En Globalization and
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Austerity Politics in Latin America, Cambridge University Press. pp. 25-70, 163-186, 189-226,
241-249.
*Weyland, Kurt 1998 “Swallowing the Bitter Pill: Sources of Popular Support for Neoliberal
Reform in Latin America”. Comparative Political Studies 31 (5): 539-568.
Referencias:
Schamis, H. and C. Way (2003). "Political Cycles and Exchange Rate-Based Stabilization."
World Politics 56: 43-78.
Nelson, Stephen (2014). “Playing Favorites: How Shared Beliefs Shape the IMF’s Lending
Decisions”. International Organization 68 (02): 297-328.
Schamis, Hector (1999): “Distributional Coalitions and the Politics of Economic Reform in Latin
America”, World Politics, Vol 51.
Murillo, Victoria (2009). Electoral Competition, Partisanship, and Policymaking in the Latin
American Public Utilities. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Capítulo analítico: 16-54.
(Capítulo empírico optativo: pp. 99-143).
Referencias:
Semana 5 (13 de Julio): Sindicatos y partidos de base popular frente al proceso de reformas
Murillo, M. Victoria (2005). “Partisanship amidst Convergence: Labor Market Reforms in Latin
America”, Comparative Politics 37(4): 441-458.
Levitsky, Steven and Katrina Burgess (2003), “Explaining Populist Party Adaptation in Latin
America: Environmental and Organizational Determinants of Party Change in Argentina,
Mexico, Peru, and Venezuela,” Comparative Political Studies.
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Roberts, Kenneth (2012) “Market Reform, Programmatic (De)alignment, and Party System
Stability in Latin America”. Comparative Political Studies XX(X) 1–31.
Silva, Eduardo (2009): Challenging Neoliberalism in Latin America. New York y Londres:
Cambridge University Press. Caps 3, 5 y 8, pp. 43-55, 123-146, 230-265.
Matthew Carnes and Isabela Mares (2014). "Coalitional Realignment and the Adoption of Non-
Contributory Social Insurance Programs in Latin America." Socio-Economic Review.
Pribble, Jennifer (2012) Welfare and Party Politics in Latin America. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press. Capitulos analíticos, 1, 2 y 8. Capítulo empírico a designar
Referencias:
Huber, Evelyn y John D. Stephens (2012). “Neoliberal Reform and the Turn to Basic
Universalim”. En Democracy and the Left. Social Policy and Inequality in Latin America.
Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, pp. 155-207
Gasparini, L. y N. Lusting (2011). “The Rise and Fall of Income Inequality in Latin America”.
En Oxford Handbook of Latin America Economics.
Semana 7 (10 de agosto): Políticas sociales y reintegración política de los sectores populares
Zucco, Cesar (2008). “The President’s New Constituency: Lula and the Pragmatic Vote in
Brazil’s 2006 Presidential Election,” Journal of Latin American Studies 40: 29‐49.
Handlin Samuel (2012) “Social Protection and the Politicization of Class Cleavages During Latin
America’s Left Turn” Comparative Political Studies XX(X) 1–28.
De la O, Ana (2015) Crafting Policies to End Poverty in Latin America. Cambridge: Cambridge
University Press. Capítulos a designar.
Sugerido:
Holland, Alice (2015) “The Distributive Politics of Enforcement.” American Journal of Political
Science, Vol. 59, No. 2, April 2015, Pp. 357–371
Weyland, K. (2009). “The Rise of Latin America’s Two Lefts: Insights from the Rentier State
Theory”, Comparative Politics 41:2, pp. 145-64.
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Flores-Macías, G. (2012) “Statist vs. Pro-Market Explaining Leftist Governments’ Economic
Policies in Latin America”. Comparative Politics 42 (4): 413-433.
Murillo, M.V. et al (2011), “Economic Constraints and Presidential Agency” en Levitsky, S. &
K. Roberts (eds.), op.cit., pp. 52-70 y 93-116.
Sugerido:
Koivumaeki, Riitta-Ilona (2015) “Evading the Constraints of Globalization. Oil and Gas
Nationalization in Venezuela and Bolivia”. Comparatives Politics 48 (1).
Filomeno, Amin (2013). “State capacity and intellectual property regimes. Lessons from South
American soybean agriculture”. Technology in Society 35 (2013) 139–152
Albertus, Michael (2015). Autocracy and Redistribution. The Politics of Land Reform.
Cambrige: Cambridge University Press. Cap. 2, Cap. 3: 61-77, Cap. 4, Cap 5: 142-159.
Fairfield, Tasha (2015) Private Wealth and Public Revenue in Latin America. Business Power
and Tax Politics. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Capítulos 2 y 3.
Post, Alison (2014) “Home Court Advantage: Investor Type and Contractual Resilience in the
Argentine Water Sector” Politics & Society Vol. 42(1) 107–132
Kathryn Hochstetler & Alfred P. Montero (2013) “The Renewed Developmental State: The
National Development Bank and the Brazil Model.” The Journal of Development Studies 49:11.
Sugerido:
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Referencias:
Devlin, Robert, and Graciela Moguillansky. (2012). What’s New in the New Industrial Policy in
Latin America? Policy Research Working Paper 6191. Washington, DC: World Bank.
Schneider, B.R. (2013) Hierarchical Capitalism: Business, Labor, and the Challenges of
Equitable Development in Latin America. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Caps. 3, 4, 7
y 8.
Sugerido:
Doner, Richard & Ben Ross Schneider (2016) “The Middle-Income Trap: More Politics than
Economics”. Forthcoming World Politics.
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Referencias generales:
Semana 1
Sokoloff, K. and S. Engerman (2000), “History Lessons: Institutions, Factor Endowments, and
Paths of Development in the New World,” en J. of Econ. Perspectives 14(2): 17-232.
Williamson, J. (2010). “Five Centuries of Latin America Inequality.” J. of Iberian and Lat. Am.
Econ. Hist., vol 28(2), 227-252.
Semana 2
Frieden, J. (1991). Debt, Development and Democray. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
Stallings, Barbara (1992): “International Influence on Economic Policy: Debt, Stabilization, and
Structural Reform” en Haggard, Stephan and Kaufman, Robert (eds.) The Politics of Economic
Adjustment, Princeton University Press.
Semana 3
Mosley, L (2003). National Governments and Global Capital. New York y Londres: Cambridge
University Press. Cap. 4.
Wibbels, Erik, y K. Roberts (2010) “The Politics of Economic Crisis in Latin America”, St
Comp Int Dev (2010) 45:383–409.
Schneider, Ben Ross (1998): “The Materials Bases of Technocracy: Investor Confidence and
Neoliberalism in Latin America”. In Miguel Centeno and Patricio Silva, eds., The Politics of
Expertise in Latin America. Basingstoke: Macmillan/St. Martins.
Frieden, J. and Stein, E. (2001) The Currency Game: Exchange Rate Politics in Latin America,
Johns Hopkins University Press.
Martínez, Juan y J. Santiso (2003) “Financial Markets and Politics: The Confidence Game in
Latin American Emerging Economies.” International Political Science Review 24 (3).
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Thies, Cameron G. and Moises Arce (2009): “The Politics of Exchange Rate Based Stabilization
Versus Structural Reforms in Latin America”, Comparative Political Studies 42, 11-93
Stokes, Susan (2001) Mandates and Democracy: Neoliberalism by Surprise in Latin America.
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Semana 4
Silva, Eduardo. The State and Capital in Chile, Boulder: Westview Press.
Gibson, Edward (1997): “The Populist Road to Market Reform: Policy and Electoral Coalitions
in Mexico and Argentina”, World Politics 49 (3), pp. 339-370.
Kessler, Timothy (1998). “Political Capital. Mexican Financial Policy under Salinas,” World
Politics 51: 36-66.
Semana 5
Murillo, M. Victoria (2001). “From Populism to Neoliberalism: Labor Unions and Market
Reforms in Latin America,” World Politics 52:2, 135-174.
Cook, Maria Lorena. 2002. “Labor Reform and Dual Transitions in the Southern Cone and
Brazil,” LAPS, Spring.
Roberts, Kenneth (2007). “The Crisis of Labor Politics in Latin America: Parties and Labor
Movements during the Transition to Neoliberalism”, International Labor and Working-Class
History 72: 116-133.
Kitschelt, Herbert, Kirk. A. Hawkins y otros, “Long Term Influences on the Structuring of Latin
America Party Systems” y “Democratic Politics and Political Economy since de 1980s”, en idem
(eds.), Latin American Party Systems. Cambridge University Press 2010, pps. 177-235.
Semanas 6 y 7
Avelino, G., David S. Brown y W. Hunter “The Effects of Capital Mobility, Trade Openness,
and Democracy on Social Spending in Latin America, 1980-1999”, AJPS, Vol. 49, No. 3. (Jul.,
2005), pp. 625-641.
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Arce, Moisés, y Paul T. Bellinger (2008). “Low-Intensity Democracy Revisited: The Effects of
Economic Liberalization on Political Activity in Latin America”, World Politics 60 (1): 97-121.
Brooks, S. (2009). Social Protection and the Market in Latin America. The Transformation of
Social Security Institutions, New York: Cambridge University Press.
Collier, Ruth y Handlin, Samuel eds. (2009): Reorganizing Popular Politics: Participation and
the New Interest Regime in Latin America, Penn State University Press.
Huber, Evelyn, Tom Mustillo y John D. Stephen (2008), “Politics and Social Spending in Latin
America”, The Journal of Politics 70(2): 420-436.
Kurtz, Marcus J. (2002). “Understanding the Third World Welfare State after Neoliberalism: The
Politics of Social Provision in Chile and Mexico.” Comparative Politics 34 (3): 293-313.
Madrid, Raul (2002) “The Politics and Economics of Pension Privatization in Latin America”,
Latin American Research Review, Vol. 37, No. 2 (2002), pp. 159-182.
Portes, Alejandro y Hoffman, Kelly (2003): “Latin American Class Structures: Their
Composition and Change during the Neoliberal Era”, Latin American Research Review, Vol 38.
Pribble, Jennifer (2011). “Worlds Apart: Social Policy Regimes in Latin America”, SCID
46:191–216.
Roberts, K. (2008). “The Mobilization of the Opposition to Economic Liberalization”. Ann. Rev.
of Polit. Sci. 11: 327-49.
Segura-Ubiergo, Alex (2007). “The Political Economy of the Welfare State in Latin America:
Globalization, Democracy and Development, Cambridge University Press.
Semana 8:
Kaufman, Robert (2011). “The Political Left, the Export Boom, and the Populist Temptation” in
Levitsky and Roberts (eds). The Resurgence of the Left in Latin America (Johns Hopkins UP
2011)
Semana 9:
de la Torre, Augusto et. al. (2012) Natural Resources in Latin America and the Caribe. Beyond
Boom and Bust? The World Bank. Capitulos 2, 4 y 6
Arce, Moises (2014): Resource Extraction and Protest in Peru. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania:
University of Pittsburgh Press, 2014.
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Semana 10:
Schrank, Andrew y M. Kurtz (2005) “Credit Where Credit Is Due: Open Economy Industrial
Policy and Export Diversification in Latin America and the Caribbean” Politics & Society 33 (4):
671-702
Kurtz, M. and S. Brooks (2008). “Embedding Neoliberal Reform in Latin America”, World
Politics 60 (2): 231-80.
Almeida, Mansueto & Ben Ross Schneider (2012) “Globalization, Democratization, and New
Industrial Policies in Brazil.” In Wonhuk Lim and Richard Locke, eds., Industrial Policies.
World Bank and Korean Development Institute.
Negoita, Marian & Fred Block (2012) “Networks and Public Policies in the Global South:
The Chilean Case and the Future of the Developmental Network State”. St Comp Int Dev (2012)
47:1–22
Fairfield, Tasha (2013) “Going Where the Money is: Strategies for Taxing Economic Elites in
Unequal Democracies”. World Development 47: 42-57.
Semana 11:
Schneider, B.R. (2009). “Hierarchical Market Economies and Varieties of Capitalism in Latin
America”. Journal of Latin American Studies 41: 553-575.
Schneider, B.R. y Soskice, David (2009): “Inequality in developed countries and Latin America:
coordinated, liberal and hierarchical systems”, Economy and Society 38 (1) 17-52.
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