The Politics of Economic Adjustment : : International Constraints, Distributive Conflicts and the State / / ed. by Robert R. Kaufman, Stephan Haggard.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999
• MitwirkendeR: Evans, Peter,; Haggard, Stephan,; Kahler, Miles,; Kaufman, Robert R.,; Nelson, Joan M.,; Stallings, Barbara,; Waterbury, John,
• HerausgeberIn: Haggard, Stephan,; Kaufman, Robert R.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2018]; ©1992
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource

In the 1980s some developing countries adopted orthodox market-oriented policies in response to international economic crises, others experimented with alternative programs, and still others failed to develop coherent adjustment strategies of any sort. Building on the case studies in Economic Crisis and Policy Choice, these essays offer comparative analysis of these divergent experiences with macroeconomic stabilization and structural adjustment. Barbara Stallings and Miles Kahler explore the external pressures on governments. Peter Evans and John Waterbury examine the role of the state in the adjustment process, Evans through the lens of earlier historical experience with economic restructuring, Waterbury by focusing on the politics of privatization. Joan Nelson analyzes the politics of income distribution in the adjustment process, and Haggard and Kaufman investigate the political correlates of inflation and stabilization. A final essay assesses the prospects for combining market-oriented reforms with political democratization.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Figures and Tables -- Contributors -- Preface -- INTRODUCTION. Institutions and Economic Adjustment -- PART I: International Constraints -- CHAPTER ONE. International Influence on Economic Policy: Debt, Stabilization, and Structural Reform -- CHAPTER TWO. External Influence, Conditionality, and the Politics of Adjustment -- PART II: The State and the Politics of Adjustment -- CHAPTER THREE. The State as Problem and Solution: Prédation, Embedded Autonomy, and Structural Change -- CHAPTER FOUR. The Heart of the Matter? Public Enterprise and the Adjustment Process -- PART III: Distributive Politics -- CHAPTER FIVE. Poverty, Equity, and the Politics of Adjustment -- CHAPTER SIX. The Political Economy of Inflation and Stabilization in Middle- Income Countries -- PART IV: Conclusion -- CHAPTER SEVEN. Economic Adjustment and the Prospects for Democracy -- Index