The Mexican Economic Crisis of 1982 and the Brazilian Economic Crisis of 1999 - Critical Junctures in Economic Policy

Authors

John Hogan, Technological University DublinFollow
Ana Maza, Technological University Dublin

Document Type

Article

Rights

Available under a Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial Share Alike 4.0 International Licence

Disciplines

5.6 POLITICAL SCIENCE, Political science

Publication Details

Asian Journal of Latin American Studies, Vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 17-39.

Abstract

This paper utilises a new critical juncture framework to help us determine whether changes to Mexican macroeconomic policy in the early 1980s, and Brazilian macroeconomic policy at the turn of the century, were clean breaks with the past, or continuations of previously established policy pathways. The framework consists of three elements, which must be identified in sequence in order to declare, with some certainty, if an event was a critical juncture. These are crisis, ideational change, and radical policy change.

DOI

https://doi.org/10.21427/D7VV3Q

Recommended Citation

Maza, A. and Hogan, J. 2009. ‘The Mexican Economic Crisis of 1982 and the Brazilian Economic Crisis of 1999 - Critical Junctures in Economic Policy?,Asian Journal of Latin American Studies, Vol. 22, No. 2, pp. 17-39. http://www.ajlas.org/

Funder

The Alßan Programme, the European Union Programme of High