Development Strategies as Ideology : : Puerto Rico's Export-Led Industrialization Experience / / Emilio Pantojas-Garcia.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Lynne Rienner Press Complete Archive eBook-Package Pre-2000
• VerfasserIn: Pantojas-Garcia, Emilio,
• Place / Publishing House: Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2023]; ©1990
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (250 p.)

Using Puerto Rico as a model, Pantojas-Garcia explores the political process that led to the formulation of export-oriented development strategies and presents the alternative view that such strategies are ideological contructs that express the political and economic interests of dominant class coalitions, not of society as a whole.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- List of Abbreviations -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1 Development Strategies as Ideology -- Introduction -- Ideology, State, and Class -- Developmentalism as a Dominant Ideology -- The Case of Puerto Rico -- 2 Populist Reformism and the Origins of Developmentalism -- Introduction -- The 1930s: The Political and Economic Crisis of the Sugar Economy -- From the Crisis to World War II -- The Importance of Developmentalism -- 3 The Capital-Importation/Export-Processing Strategy: The First Stage -- Introduction -- The Redefinition of the Reformist Strategy -- The New Development Strategy -- The Impact of the CI/EP Strategy on the Socioeconomic Structure -- The New Developmentalist Discourse -- 4 Transnational Capital: The Second Stage of the Capital- Importation/Export-Processing Strategy -- The Politicoeconomic Basis for the Deepening of the CI/EP Strategy -- Charting a New Course -- The Impact of the Deepening of the CI/EP Strategy -- The Exacerbation of the Politicoideological Contradictions -- The Collapse of the CI/EP Strategy -- 5 Crisis and Restructuring: The High-Finance Strategy -- Introduction -- Crisis and the Need for Restructuring -- The Politics of Restructuring -- The High-Finance Strategy -- Peripheral Postindustrialization -- New Political Conflicts and the Future -- Bibliography -- Index -- About the Book and the Author