Guess that Country!
What country was known as the "perfect dictatorship?"
Mexico
a political ideology that sees individual choice as the essence of freedom
Liberalism
What is function fusion?
granting existing institutions the ability to perform a variety of functions typically reserved for other institutions.
Current president of Mexico
Andrés Manuel López Obrador
What is the name of the dude who wrote our textbook?
Hellinger
This country was home to Peronism
Argentina
"a political regime in which elites, by which he
meant leaders drawn from different sectors (labor, business, education, religion, etc.), compete
with one another for influence in a system characterized by liberal freedoms (freedom
of expression, right to assembly, fair elections) and extension of citizenship, especially the
right to vote, to everyone"
Polyarchy
What is neoliberalism? Name some things neoliberalism believes in.
Neoliberalism or neo-liberalism[1] is the 20th-century resurgence of 19th-century ideas associated with economic liberalism and free-market capitalism. It is generally associated with policies of economic liberalization, including privatization, deregulation, globalization, free trade, austerity, and reductions in government spending in order to increase the role of the private sector in the economy and society
Leader who staged a "self-coup"
Hugo Chavez
deportation!
Country where we recently saw a leader go into temporary exile
Evo Morales
a government that was elected in elections, even fair elections, but then tramples on certain democratic procedures & norms, a regime that engages in executive overreach & weakens in horizontal accountability
Hybird democracy
What is the "informal sector" of the economy?
Th ey typically work in the
informal sector of the economy—that is, they are not employed in wage- paying jobs that
are covered by labor laws (e.g., occupational safety, minimum wage standards) or that come
with benefi ts, such as health care and social security.
"Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable"
JFK in 1962
The IMF & World Bank is infamous for these policies & what are they?
Structual adjustment
Name two countries where we saw a gradual turn towards democracy
Chile, Brazil, Mexico
Economic development policies associated with populism
ISI
In democratic transitions, what is regime factionalism? What do we call the different factions?
Hardline (duros) softline (blando)
In Chile, ____ was thrown out of power in a US-backed coup and ___ was put in power
Salvador Allende, Augusto Pinochet
Anita pop quiz!
Where did she work early in her career?
Where did she get her PhD?
Where is she from?
Ford Foundation, Oxford, Canada
Name three countries where the US helped stage a coup
Chile, Guatemala, Mexico, Brazil.
This theory believes that Latin America has been left behind and will eventually "catch up"
Modernization theory
Name three theories of development and what they are
Modernization/dependency/marxism/institutionalism
Brazilian leader from 1937 - 1964
Getúlio Vargas
What caused the lost decade of the 1980s & the debt crisis?
Huge economic debt crisis as a result of price of exports falling & more debt payments were accrued
In part due to the oil embargo in 1973 by Arab-countries… higher prices for third-world countries
Global economic situation & local politics discouraged foreign investors
Rich Latin Americans put their $ abroad in dollars
Corruption & inefficiencies also to blame
Yet international banks were less cautious → led to them borrowing from IMF & agreeing to structural adjustment policies