Public Support for Market Reforms in New Democracies

Book Overview

Do people in new democracies that are undergoing market reforms turn against these reforms when the economic adjustment is painful? The conventional wisdom is that they will. According to "economic voting" models, citizens punish elected governments for bad economic performance. The contributors to this collection, in contrast, begin with the insight that citizens in new democracies may have good reasons to depart from the predictions of economic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521663415
• ISBN13: 9780521663410
• Release Date: September 2001
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 232 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.0"