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The Politics of Expertise in Latin America

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  • © 1998

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Editors:
  1. Miguel A. Centeno

    1. Department of Sociology, Princeton University, USA

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  2. Patricio Silva

    1. Institute of Cultural and Social Studies, Leiden University, Netherland

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Part of the book series: Latin American Studies Series (LASS)

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Table of contents (11 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-x
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  2. The Politics of Expertise in Latin America: Introduction

    • Miguel A. Centeno, Patricio Silva
    Pages 1-12

  3. The Quest for Modernity: Latin American Technocratic Ideas in Historical Perspective

    • Michiel Baud
    Pages 13-35

  4. The Politics of Knowledge: Hayek and Technocracy

    • Miguel A. Centeno
    Pages 36-51

  5. Pablo Ramírez: A Political Technocrat Avant-la-Lettre

    • Patricio Silva
    Pages 52-76

  6. The Material Bases of Technocracy: Investor Confidence and Neoliberalism in Latin America

    • Ben Ross Schneider
    Pages 77-95

  7. The World Bank and the Transformation of Latin American Society

    • Pitou van Dijck
    Pages 96-125

  8. Economists in Party Politics: Chilean Democracy in the Era of the Markets

    • Veronica Montecinos
    Pages 126-141

  9. Stars of the Crisis: The Ascent of Economists in Peruvian Public Life

    • Catherine M. Conaghan
    Pages 142-164

  10. Feminism and Technocracy: Femocrats in Brazil in the Eighties

    • Ineke van Halsema
    Pages 165-176

  11. Technocrats and Politicians in the Democratic Politics of Argentina (1983-95)

    • Carlos Huneeus
    Pages 177-195

  12. Technocracy a la Mexicana:Antecedent to Democracy?

    • Roderic Ai Camp
    Pages 196-213

  13. Back Matter

    Pages 214-233
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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.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Sociology, Princeton University, USA

    Miguel A. Centeno

  • Institute of Cultural and Social Studies, Leiden University, Netherland

    Patricio Silva

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