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Author Baker, Andy, 1972-

Title The market and the masses in Latin America : policy reform and consumption in liberalizing economies / Andy Baker
Published Cambridge, UK : Cambridge University Press, 2009
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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 331 pages) : illustrations
Series Cambridge studies in comparative politics
Cambridge studies in comparative politics.
Contents Introduction and theory -- Consuming the Washington consensus -- Theoretical framework: the top-down and bottom-up sources of public opinion -- Mass beliefs about market policies in Latin America -- The economic consequences and elite rhetoric of market reform in Latin America -- Are Latin Americans neoliberals? -- Are the poor neoliberals? -- Mass support for reform in Brazil -- The economic consequences and elite rhetoric of market reform in Brazil -- How many Brazilians support market reforms? -- Which Brazilians support market reforms? -- Conclusion -- The politics of consumismo in Latin America
Summary Baker argues that a new political economy of consumption has replaced a previously dominant politics of labour and class in Latin America
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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SUBJECT Lateinamerika gnd
Subject Globalization -- Latin America -- Public opinion
Neoliberalism -- Latin America -- Public opinion
Consumption (Economics) -- Latin America
Public opinion -- Latin America
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Economic Conditions.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Economics -- Macroeconomics.
Consumption (Economics)
Public opinion
Globalisierung
Öffentliche Meinung
Wirtschaft.
Liberalismus.
Globalisierung.
Öffentliche Meinung.
Privatisierung.
Verbrauch.
Latin America
Lateinamerika
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2008030558
ISBN 0521899680
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