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Economic Reforms in New Democracies

Economic Reforms in New Democracies

Hardcover

EconomicsGeneral Political Science

ISBN10: 0521432596
ISBN13: 9780521432597
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Apr 30 1993
Pages: 238
Weight: 1.15
Height: 0.69 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
In this book the authors assess the experiences of transition in Southern Europe, Latin America and Eastern Europe in order to determine what the conditions for successful transitions are. They argue against the big bang approach, espoused by many advisors to reforming countries, on the grounds that this approach bypasses the newly formed institutions of democracy that ultimately may undermine the necessary consensus to support painful economic reforms. The most successful reforms, they argue, have been those agreed upon through a process of democratic negotiation. A new democracy must offer politically important groups incentives to process their demands within the democratic institutional framework; otherwise, their support will be tenuous and the system may collapse under the strains incurred by painful economic reforms.

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