La nocion de que las crisis economicas contribuyen a la implementacion de reformas se escucha con frecuencia, pero es empiricamente dudosa y teoricamente indeterminada. En todo caso, el papel de las crisis en la implementacion de reformas es imposible de predecir, y lo mas probable es que sea...

"Venezuela, which once enjoyed periods of democratically elected governments in the latter half of the twentieth century, has descended into autocratic rule, coupled with economic collapse. In his new book, Autocracy Rising, veteran scholar of Latin American politics Javier Corrales explores how...

The Venezuelan manufacturing sector cooperated with state's efforts to liberalize trade in the 1990s, despite the economic costs it absorbed and the political opportunities to sabotage the reforms. This paper offers two explanations for this, which modify and conciliate traditional...