Mexico and Argentina: Economic reform and technocratic decision making |
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Authors: | Judith Teichman |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Political Science, University of Toronto, 100 St. George St., M5S 1A1 Toronto, Ontario |
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Abstract: | This article examines the Mexican and Argentine cases of market reform and argues that despite important differences in regime
type and in recent economic and political trajectories, the decision-making process in the two countries came to display important
common features. In both cases, economic crises and debt negotiations played key roles in propelling technocratic reformers
into positions of policy predominance; both exhibited exclusionary technocratic decision-making styles in which small technocratic
elites insulated themselves from both extra and intra state pressures. While policy isolation was no doubt necessary for the
successful implementation of market reforms, this style may be counter-productive to political stability over the long term.
Judith Teichman is Professor of Political Science at the University of Toronto. Her articles have appeared in such journals
asLatin American Research Review, Latin American Perspectives, Mexican Studies/Estudios Mexicanos, andThe Canadian Journal of Political Science and in edited volumes. She is the author ofPolicymaking in Mexico: From Boom to Crisis andPrivatization and Political Change in Mexico and is currently carrying out a comparative study of the structural adjustment policy process in Mexico, Argentina, and Chile. |
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