Creative Destruction? : Economic Crises and Democracy in Latin America

Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- INTRODUCTION. Institutions, Interests, and Ideas in Explaining Regime Change -- 1 Financial Shocks, Economic Crises, and Democracy: Theory and Practice -- PART I. GREAT DEPRESSION, 1929-34 -- 2 Economic Crisis and Democracy during the Great Depression -- 3 Institutions: Polarized Domestic Conflicts and Weak International Capacity -- 4 Interests: Foreign Capital and Domestic Coalitions against Democracy -- 5 Ideas: Extreme Ideological Conflict and Rise of the State in the Economy -- PART II. ECONOMIC CRISES AND DEMOCRACY IN THE LATE TWENTIETH CENTURY -- 6 1982 Debt Crisis and 1997-2002 Emerging Markets Crises -- 7 Institutions: Demise of Military-as-Government and Higher Costs for Action -- 8 Interests: Capital Flight, Pressures from Below, and Democracy -- 9 Ideas: Cold War Endgame, Unipolar Moment, and Neoliberalism -- Conclusion. Implications for Democracy after the 2008-9 Financial Meltdown -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.