The Market and the Masses in Latin America

出版者:Cambridge University Press

作者:Andy Baker

页数:358

出版时间:2009-3-23

价格:GBP 57.00

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9780521899680

丛书系列:Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics

图书标签:比较政治比较政治经济学政治经济学政治学拉美研究

What do ordinary citizens in developing countries think about free markets? Conventional wisdom views globalization as an imposition on unwilling workers in developing nations, concluding that the recent rise of the Latin American left constitutes a popular backlash against the market. In this 2009 book, Baker marshals public opinion data from eighteen Latin American countries to show that most of the region's citizens are enthusiastic about globalization because it has lowered the prices of many consumer goods and services while improving their variety and quality. Among recent free-market reforms, only privatization has caused pervasive discontent because it has raised prices for services like electricity and telecommunications. Citizens' sharp awareness of these consumer consequences informs Baker's argument that a political economy of consumption has replaced a previously dominant politics of labor and class in Latin America.