Summary Of "Politics And Power In Menem's Government" By Marcos Novaro And Vicente Palermo: UNIVERSITY SUMMARIES

By MAURICIO ENRIQUE FAU

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POLITICS AND POWER IN MENEM'S GOVERNMENT

1989: THE END OF AN ERA AND THE ORIGINS OF ANOTHER

CHAPTER 1 A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE LONG CRISIS IN ARGENTINA

The long crisis of the political regime and the model of accumulation

Since 1982, Argentina has known a decade characterized by:

1) external shocks (high international interest rates, deteriorating terms of trade)
2) fiscal imbalance
3) inflation

• Language: English
• Publisher: BOOKS AND SUMMARIES BY MAURICIO FAU
• Release date: May 20, 2022
• ISBN: 9798201861100

MAURICIO ENRIQUE FAU

Mauricio Enrique Fau nació en Buenos Aires en 1965. Se recibió de Licenciado en Ciencia Política en la Universidad de Buenos Aires. Cursó también Derecho en la UBA y Periodismo en la Universidad de Morón. Realizó estudios en FLACSO Argentina. Docente de la UBA y AUTOR DE MÁS DE 3.000 RESÚMENES de Psicología, Sociología, Ciencia Política, Antropología, Derecho, Historia, Epistemología, Lógica, Filosofía, Economía, Semiología, Educación y demás disciplinas de las Ciencias Sociales. Desde 2005 dirige La Bisagra Editorial, especializada en técnicas de estudio y materiales que facilitan la transición desde la escuela secundaria a la universidad. Por intermedio de La Bisagra publicó 38 libros. Participa en diversas ferias del libro, entre ellas la Feria Internacional del Libro de Buenos Aires y la FIL Guadalajara.

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Summary Of Politics And Power In Menem's Government By Marcos Novaro And Vicente Palermo

UNIVERSITY SUMMARIES

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SUMMARY OF POLITICS AND POWER IN MENEM'S GOVERNMENT BY MARCOS NOVARO AND VICENTE PALERMO

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Novaro, Marcos & Palermo, Vicente

POLITICS AND POWER IN MENEM’S GOVERNMENT

1989: THE END OF AN ERA AND THE ORIGINS OF ANOTHER

CHAPTER 1 A BRIEF HISTORY OF THE LONG CRISIS IN ARGENTINA

The long crisis of the political regime and the model of accumulation

Since 1982, Argentina has known a decade characterized by:

1) external shocks (high international interest rates, deteriorating terms of trade)

2) fiscal imbalance

3) inflation

These were the symptoms that the Argentine economic and social order was in decline. The structural reforms that began to be applied in 1989 constituted an extreme medicine that was applied to give a globalizing response to the crisis. 1989 was the arrival point of a long chronic crisis that started at least in the mid-1970s.

Summarizing, it can be said that after World War II, ARGENTINA had a pattern of accumulation with two DOMINANT FEATURES:

1) economic semi-autarky

2) mixed economy dependent on the public sector

These two features are contemporaneous with the appearance of Peronism and its increase in social participation. Paradoxically, although Peronism was characterized by this last feature, it was unable to provide it with an institutionalization channel (an opposite case was the Mexican PRI). At the very origin of this movement, a structure was formed in which the salary demands of the unions could not be disregarded.

The latter caused a structural imbalance in the model that reduced its creator, Perón himself, to a state of virtual prisoner of his contradictions.

The general saw that he could never fully satisfy the demands of the workers or fully control their organizations. When he wanted to detach himself in part from this logic, he did not find support in the other political and social sectors that either distrusted him or directly detested his government. This generated a clear impotence for the government to abandon such a rigidly local pattern of accumulation and link itself to economic movements on an international scale.

The GENERAL PANORAMA of the Argentine economy and society showed a rapid EXHAUSTION of its import substitution process and a non-recomposition of the economic model COMBINED with a DE-INSTITUTIONALIZATION of the conflicts.

Argentina's semi-closed economy needed the State to commit itself greatly to its SUPPORT through high deficits and negative interest rates. The Argentine economy consolidated an almost null dynamism.

In politics there was a contradiction between STRONG POLITICAL IDENTITIES and a WEAK POLITICAL SYSTEM. The two popular parties, Radicals and Peronists, in the case of reaching the government were strongly conditioned (although in different ways) by the economic and corporate powers (both unions and business chambers). At