Abstract

RAUS, Diego Martín. Desarrollo y democracia: el estado de la relacion post- reformas. Estud. Econ. [online]. 2012, vol.29, n.58, pp. 63-93. ISSN 2525-1295.

In this paper I consider the politics, institutional and conceptual changes that concerns the relationship between development and democracy in Latin America, after, and as a consequence, of economic reforms in the '90 (Washington Consensus). Sociology, political sciences and the economy of development (ECLA) related, in the '50, and as a virtuous circle, the relationship among economic development- social modernization- governability-democracy stability. This conceptual and political model was reversed in the '90 from the sociopolitical effects that negatively went through latin American societies with the return of free market economic policies (neoliberalism). To analyze and discuss this conceptual and political operation is the goal of this work.

Keywords : Development; Society; Modernization; Economic reforms; Democracy.