Development and semi-periphery: post-neoliberal trajectories in South America and Central Eastern Europe

'Development and Semi-periphery' presents a collection of articles that focus on comparative analysis of development trajectories in the semi-peripheral countries of South America and Central Eastern Europe. As opposed to the transitology studies that were prevalent in the 1990s, and that treated the neoliberal context in these two regions separately, the articles in this book instead offer a new comparative analysis focusing on the consequences of neoliberal reforms and the new actors that deal with their results. The essays discuss the various forms of state that have unfolded in different peripheral countries, their role in the social engineering of economic models and social policies, and the impact of state capacities and ideas on institutional innovation. The volume also compares transformations in political culture, collective identities and contentious politics in both areas

Introduction // Renato Boschi and Carlos Henrique Santana -- Development, macroeconomic policies, and varieties of capitalism -- Postsocialist states in the system of global capitalism : a comparative perspective / David Lane -- Politics, institutions, and development : lessons from Latin America / Renato Boschi -- Managing the Faustian pact : monetary autonomy in the pursuit of development in Eastern Europe and Latin America / Joseph N. Cohen -- Development and dependency, developmentalism, and alternatives / José maurício Domingues -- Political culture, identity politics, and political contention -- Indigenous movements and their proposals in Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru / Xavier Albó -- Path dependency in identity politics in Estonia / Raivo Vetik -- Integration parliaments in Europe and Latin America : explaining variations / Juliana Erthal -- Ideas and the role of elites and advocacy networks : translating and legitimating the frontiers of institutional reforms -- Marketing professional expertise by (re)inventing states : professional rivalries between lawyers and economists as hegemonic strategies in the international market for the reproduction of national state elites / Yves Dezalay and Bryant Garth -- Identity, policy preferences and the perception of the European integration process among the Hungarian elites / György Lengyel and Borbála Göncz -- Critical junctures, institutional legacies and epistemic communities : limits and possibilities of a development agenda in Brazil / Carlos Henrique Santana -- Economic reforms, public policies and development -- Development and citizenship in the semi-periphery : reflecting on the Brazilian experience / Krista Lillemets -- The periphery paradox in innovation policy : Latin America and Eastern Europe compared / Rainer Kattel and Annalisa Primi -- Lula's government as the Brazilian experiment with social democracy / Fabiano Santos