The Politics of Expertise in Latin America (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780312210267)

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.

Author: Miguel A. Centeno
ISBN-10: 0312210264
ISBN-13: 9780312210267
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 05/14/1998
Pages: 238
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.08lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.84w x 0.85d