Social Movements And Free-market Capitalism In Latin America: Telecommunications Privatization And The Rise Of Consumer Protest Project Muse Upcc Books

This Innovative Book Examines How The Privatization And Reregulation Of The Telecommunications Sectors In Chile, Argentina, And Brazil In The 1980s And 1990s Provoked The Rise Of New Consumer Protest Movements In Latin America. Sybil Rhodes Looks At How Hasty Privatization Of State-owned Telephone Companies Led To Short-term Economic Windfalls For Multinational Corporations But Long-term Instability Due To Consumer Movements Or The Threat Of Them. Eventually These Governments Implemented Consumer-friendly Regulation As A Belated Form Of Damage Control. In Contrast, Governments That Privatized Through More Gradual, Democratic Processes Were Able To Make Credible Commitments To Their Citizens As Well As To Their Multinational Investors By Including Regulatory Regimes With Consumer Protection Mechanisms Built In. Rhodes Illustrates How Consumers - Previously Unacknowledged Actors In Studies Of Social Movements, Market Reforms, And Democratizations In And Beyond Latin America - Are Indispensable To Understanding The Political And Social Implications Of These Broad Global Trends.--jacket. Consumer Movements -- Explaining The Emergence Of Consumer Movements -- Authoritarian Privatization And Delayed Consumer Mobilization In Chile -- The Original Sin Of Privatization In Argentina -- Contentious Consumer Mobilization In Argentina -- The Gradual And Contested Privatization Of Brazil's Telessauro -- Post-jurassic Regulation And Contained Consumer Response -- Democratizing Free-market Capitalism. Sybil Rhodes. Includes Bibliographical References (p. 193-214) And Index. Social Movements andFree-Market Capitalismin Latin America......Page 2 Contents......Page 8 Illustrations......Page 10 Acknowledgments......Page 12 1. Consumer Movements: New Social and Political Actors in Latin America......Page 14 2. Explaining the Emergence of Consumer Movements: The “Crossed Wires” Effect of Democratization and Privatization......Page 22 3. Authoritarian Privatization and Delayed Consumer Mobilization in Chile......Page 58 4. The “Original Sin” of Privatization in Argentina......Page 80 5. Contentious Consumer Mobilization in Argentina......Page 94 6. The Gradual and Contested Privatization of Brazil’s “Telessauro”......Page 118 7. “Post-Jurassic” Regulation and Contained Consumer Response......Page 150 8. Democratizing Free-Market Capitalism: Consumers and the Codevelopment of “Voice” and “Exit”......Page 180 1. Consumer Movements......Page 186 2. Explaining the Emergence of Consumer Movements......Page 189 3. Authoritarian Privatization and Delayed Consumer Mobilization in Chile......Page 194 4. The “Original Sin” of Privatization in Argentina......Page 196 5. Contentious Consumer Mobilization in Argentina......Page 198 6. The Gradual and Contested Privatization of Brazil’s “Telessauro”......Page 200 7. “Post-Jurassic” Regulation and Contained Consumer Response......Page 202 8. Democratizing Free-Market Capitalism......Page 204 Bibliography......Page 206 A......Page 228 C......Page 229 E......Page 232 H......Page 233 K......Page 234 M......Page 235 N......Page 236 P......Page 237 S......Page 239 U......Page 240 Y......Page 241