The book, ‟Business Power and the State in the Central Andes”, analyses how business elites have influenced state policy making in Bolivia, Ecuador and Peru over the past century: during the phase of import substitutive industrialization between the 1930s and 1970s, during the period of neoliberalism in the 1980s and 1990s, and in that of post-neoliberalism since around 2000. It seeks to relate business power to the establishment, consolidation and sustainability of more pluralist and open systems of government, identifying ways in which it affects political stability in the region. It provides a sequel to the book written by James Malloy and Catherine Conaghan thirty years ago on ‘unsettled statecraft’ in the Andean region. The monograph will be launched as a part of the LAC Main Seminar Series.
Speakers:
- John Crabtree, LAC
- Jonas Wolff, PRIF
Discussant:
- Laurence Whitehead, Nuffield College
Convener:
- David Doyle, University of Oxford
When: Friday 1 December, 5:00pm
Where: Latin American Centre,1 Church Walk, Oxford (UK) and online via Zoom