Studies In Comparative International Development articles from September 1999

Studies In Comparative International Development archives from September 1999

Letter from the Editor.(Brief Article)
September 22, 1999... I would like to take this opportunity to announce formally the relaunching of SCID under new editorial management. As of the beginning of 2000,1 have assumed the editorship of the journal and have put together a distinguished and exciting...

The Limits of Democracy: Socio-Political Compromise and Regime Change in Post-Pinochet Chile.(Brief Article)
September 22, 1999... Introduction Since the early 1980s, Latin America (and the developing world more generally) has undergone a historically significant transition from military to civilian rule. Like the authoritarianism that preceded it, the number and...

Foreign Aid and the Economic Growth of Developing Countries (LDCs): Further Evidence.(Brief Article)
September 22, 1999... The objectives of this article are to revisit the critical role that foreign aid presently plays in the economic growth of the LDCs and to examine the nature of its utilization in those countries which heavily rely on foreign aid. Other...

The Rise and Fall of Bureaucratic-Authoritarianism in Chile.(Brief Article)
September 22, 1999... This article applies Guillermo O'Donnell's Bureaucratic-Authoritarian (BA) model to analyze the interruption of Chile's democracy in 1973, and the gradual return to civilian rule since 1989. It argues that the formation of Augusto Pinochet's...

From Protectionism Towards Neoliberalism: Ecuador Across Four Administrations (1981-1996).(Brief Article)
September 22, 1999... Ecuador since 1980 illustrates many features of Latin America's neoliberal transition. Ecuador shifted from a state-oriented development model and towards a neoliberal approach across four ideologically-diverse administrations. Although the...

Populist Liberalism as Dominant Ideology: Competing Ideas and Democracy in Post-Authoritarian Argentina, 1989-1995.(Brief Article)
September 22, 1999... This article identifies a new dominant political ideology, populist liberalism, which emerged in Argentina after 1989. This elite-constructed discourse (combining some neo-liberal ideas with old populist emphases) emphasized leadership more...

The European Union and Member State: Towards Institutional Fusion?(Review)
September 22, 1999... Edited by Dietrich Rometsch and Wolfgang Wessels. New York: Manchester University Press, 1996. xvii + 382 pages. Cloth $69.95. Over the last four decades, theoretical investigations of the European integration process have shifted their...

Social Movements in Development.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Edited by Staffan Lindberg and Arni Sverrisson. New York: St Martin's Press & Macmillan Press, 1997. Cloth $59.95. This book examines "new" social movements outside of industrialized countries and in the context of economic globalization....

Drugs in the Western Hemisphere: An Odyssey of Cultures in Conflict.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Edited by William O. Walker III. Wilmington: SR Books, 1996. Xxvii +262 pages. Cloth $40.00, paper $16.95. Drugs in the Western Hemisphere: An Odyssey of Cultures in Conflict, edited by William O. Walker III, is an important and...

The Urban Caribbean: Transition to the New Global Economy.(Review)
September 22, 1999... Edited by Alejandro Portes, Carlos Dore-Cabral, and Patricia Landolt. Baltimore and London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997. xvii + 260 pages. Cloth $48.50, paper, $17.95. This "small-N" comparative analysis of contemporary...