Ideas and Institutions: Developmentalism in Brazil and Argentina

Contributor(s): Sikkink, Kathryn A (Author)

ISBN: 9780801478673

Publisher: Cornell University Press

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Pub Date: September 26, 2012

Dewey: 338.981

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Bibliography, Illustrated, Index, Table of Contents

Target Age Group: 18 to UP

Physical Info: 0.80" H x 8.90" L x 6.00" W ( 0.95 lbs) 288 pages

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Series: Cornell Studies in Political Economy

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Description:

Sikkink traces the effects of one enormously influential set of ideas, developmentalism, on the two largest economies in Latin America, Brazil and Argentina.

Review Quotes:

Sikkink contributes significantly to the analysis of the role of ideas and institutions (as opposed to 'interests') in adopting economic development models, in this intriguing study of 'developmentalism' in Brazil (1956-61) and Argentina (1958-62).... Sikkink asks why both countries adopted this approach (mostly for ideological reasons), and why it largely succeeded in Brazil and failed in Argentina.

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