Populismo Temperado: Uma Interpretação Política do Plano de Convertibilidade Argentino de 1991

• Main Author: Palermo Vicente
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro 1997-01-01
• Series: Dados: Revista de Ciências Sociais
• Subjects: pro-market reforms; macroeconomic policy; Argentina politics; Convertibility Plan; populism
• Online Access: http://www.scielo.br/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&pid=S0011-52581997000100004

Approaching from the perspective of a political science analysis, the article focuses on the interactions between an economic stabilization plan <FONT FACE="Symbol">3/4</font> Argentina's 1991 Convertibility Plan <FONT FACE="Symbol">3/4</font> and the pro-market program of reforms that was implemented from the beginning of the Carlos Menem Administration. It highlights the political and institutional factors that made it possible to architect and expansive stabilizing policy, the relevance of the political effects of implementing this program, and the crucial interrelationship between the government's coalitional policy, the reform program, and macroeconomic policy.