Ideas and Institutions: Developmentalism in Brazil and Argentina

by Kathryn Sikkink

Book Overview

In Ideas and Institutions, Kathryn Sikkink illuminates a key question in contemporary political economy: What power do ideas wield in the world of politics and policy? Sikkink traces the effects of one enormously influential set of ideas, developmentalism, on the two largest economies in Latin America, Brazil and Argentina.

Introduced under the intellectual leadership of Ra?l Prebisch at the U.N. Economic Commission for Latin America,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801478677
• ISBN13: 9780801478673
• Release Date: September 2012
• Publisher: Cornell University Press
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 0.20 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher