Neoliberale Restrukturierung und die neuen Demokratien in Lateinamerika

Abstract

The regions exeedingly modest economic recovery, plus recent events such as the failed military coup in Venezuela and the imposition of a civil-military dictatorship in Peru, thus raise struggling questions conderning the social and polilical consequences of neoliberal restructuring. Meriting particular attention in comparative analyses of the post-transition period are the sharp erosion of the state's capacity to manage major macroeconomic variables and the problematic tensions between marketplace logic, reinforced by the exegencies of the world-econorny, and pressures to institutionalze and expand popular participation and citizenship rights beyond thc political-institutional arena of elcctoral politics.