The Politics of Expertise in Latin America

The Politics of Expertise in Latin America
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Publisher : Springer
Total Pages : 249
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ISBN-10 : 9781349261857
ISBN-13 : 1349261858
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Book Synopsis The Politics of Expertise in Latin America by : Miguel A. Centeno

Download or read book The Politics of Expertise in Latin America written by Miguel A. Centeno and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-07-27 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The ascendancy of technocratic personnel and their imposition of neo-liberal economic policies have come to define Latin American politics in the 1980s and 1990s. This book is the first comparative analysis of these events and their implications for the future of democracy on the continent. Individual chapters discuss the rise to power of these technocrats in Mexico, Chile, Argentina, Brazil, and Peru as well as the historical antecedents of expert rule in the 19th and early 20th centuries.


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