Judith A. Teichman

• PhD, FRSC
• Professor (Full) at University of Toronto

Most recent explanations of social welfare and development outcomes have focused on the role and impact of formal institutional arrangements, particularly the state. The institutional legacies of colonial rule and the role of democratic institutions have been common explanatory variables. This article focuses on the historical origins, persistence,...

Washington consensus policies evolved over time, both in Washington and among Latin American policymakers. These policies, involving trade liberalization and privatization (among other measures), were widely adopted in the region by the early 1990s. A generation of scholarly work sought to explain how and why Latin American countries embarked on ec...

This article challenges the notion that populist rhetoric in Latin America primarily and consistently arose in response to recent social dislocations and involves, from the onset, a Manichean struggle of the good people against an evil enemy. Instead, this work seeks the origins of polarisation, so often associated with populism, deep in history: i...

Much of the literature on populism, including that on Peronism in Argentina, focuses on the us/them, good versus evil, nature of populist rhetoric as instrumental in polarizing society and eroding democracy. This work challenges this perspective by placing an analysis of Peron’s speeches (from 1943 to 1955) within the pre-existing historical contex...

While much of the literature on populism has focused on the role of the populist leader in creating political polarization, this work asks what role context, particularly anti-populism, plays in exacerbating the often vitriolic nature of populist rhetoric. This work explores this question by examining the speeches of Hugo Chavez, President of Venez...

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This chapter advances a political explanation of immiserizing growth in Mexico. It identifies five episodes of economic growth in modern Mexican history during which the Indigenous population benefitted less than the general population, did not see any improvement in its level of deprivation, or experienced worsening circumstances. The chapter argu...

This paper advances a political explanation of immiserizing growth in Mexico. It identifies five episodes of economic growth in modern Mexican history during which the Indigenous population benefitted less than the general population, did not see any improvement in its level of deprivation, or experienced worsening circumstances. The paper argues t...

This post explores the roots of the rise of Trump's authoritarian populism and asks whether political establishments everywhere have grasped its lessons.

This blog post argues that populist authoritarianism and its attendant untruths are nothing new. Latin American cases illustrate that their origins are contextual, heavily rooted opposition to established political elites.

This blog post deals with the implications of the Trump victory for the study of politics.

On October 2nd, Colombians voted by a narrow margin (50.2 to 49.8 percent) to reject the peace agreement negotiated by the FARC (the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia) and the government of President Juan Manuel Santos. This war has raged for 52 years, caused an estimated 220,000 deaths, and displaced millions. While the population is clearly...

FARC guerrillas More people in Latin America die as a result of criminal violence than in anywhere else in the world. While 8 percent of the world's population lives in Latin America and the Caribbean, the region accounts for roughly one-third of the world's homicide cases. Latin America's per capita homicide rate is 23.4 per 100,000 people, nearly...

This blog entry deals with Clinton's alliance with Republican Hawks and her record on Latin America.

This blog entry deals with the impact of sexist bias on female politicians seeking political change.

Trump with presidential supporters, and Boris Johnson with Brexit supporters. The rise of the Trump phenomenon in the U.S. and the victory of the leave vote in Great Britain have given rise to growing concern about the rise of xenophobia among apparently large swaths of the public in both countries. There has also been considerable fear that such u...

Latin America in the Wake of Brexit and Trump: Calamity or Opportunity? is my latest blog entry.

This is my latest blog entry dealing with gender violence in Brazil, the Global South and the U.S.

This is my latest blog entry dealing with recent events in Brazil and the U.S.

This blog entry discusses the reasons behind the decision to open impeachment proceedings against Rousseff and outlines some of the implications.

This is my latest blog entry on the politics of inclusive development.

The recent scandals in a number of Latin American countries raise the issue of institutional capacity and the vexing issue of what is at the root of state incapacity in Latin American countries, particularly in those cases that have made recent significant progress in reducing poverty. This blog entry argues that there are long-standing historical...

This is my latest blog entry dealing with the link between neoliberal policy prescriptions and the drug wars.

This short piece is my latest blog entry.

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With the decline in commodity prices, Latin America faces the possibility of a downward political and economic cycle. During the last fifteen years, as the region has enjoyed economic prosperity with the rise of commodity prices on the international market, left/centre governments spent liberally on the expansion of social policy initiatives. These...

Teichman discusses the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), drawing on some of the ideas elaborated on in The Politics of Inclusive Development. Policy, State Capacity and Coalition Building, 2016.

Interview published in Neue Gesellschaft Frankfurter Hefte, 1(2), 2011, pages, 67-69 (Berlin)

January 16, 2016 entry to my blog on inclusive development at: http://www.judith-teichman.com/blog/2016/1/16/brazil-the-perils-of-commodity-driven-inclusive-development

This book investigates the political conditions and policies most likely to bring about progress toward inclusive development, drawing on in-depth analyses of four cases studies with distinct development trajectories (Mexico, Indonesia, Chile and South Korea). While exclusion and differential inclusion have long been features of development in the...

This chapter draws out the political and policy lessons of the case studies and discusses these within the general historical context of the Global South and current conventional wisdom on what policies are most effective. Getting the politics right, the fundamental ingredient required to propel countries toward inclusive development, requires a co...

This chapter compares the development experiences of Mexico and Indonesia, two cases where inclusive development has remained elusive. Politics played a central role in Mexico’s history of the differential inclusion of much of the working class and urban poor, and the exclusion of small and communal farmers. Politics also shaped the Indonesian expe...

South Korea is the case that has most closely approximated inclusive development. While South Korea admittedly had a number of historical advantages, its governments have pursued policies conducive to inclusive development. The state gave particularly close attention to rural welfare and productivity and actively pursued an industrial strategy that...

This chapter outlines the historical forces that have shaped problems of exclusion and differential inclusion in the Global South. Exclusion and differential inclusion have deep historical roots. Neither the state-led phase prior to the early 1980s, nor the market liberalization drive were inclusive. A consideration of the political conditions and...

This chapter considers the main poverty alleviation strategies supported by official development thinking (microfinance and conditional cash transfer programs) and the official strategy directed to the poorest countries (PRSPs). This latter combines the favored poverty alleviation programs with market liberalization. The chapter argues that these i...

This chapter outlines the ways in which exclusion and differential inclusion became entrenched into policy and practice, making propertied interests and middle class groups the main beneficiaries of the economic model prior to the early 1970s in Chile. A weak state, permeated by societal interests, inhibited economic policies that could have had mo...

Since the late 1980s, civil society organizations, scholars, and multilateral institutions have voiced rising concern about social well-being in the Global South. The Millennium Declaration and the statement of Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), which, among other things, called for the halving of poverty by 2015, offered some concrete objectives...

This book investigates the political conditions and policies most likely to bring about progress toward inclusive development, drawing on in-depth analyses of four cases studies with distinct development trajectories (Mexico, Indonesia, Chile and South Korea). While exclusion and differential inclusion have long been features of development in the...

Through the 1990s and into the early 2000s, slow or stagnant growth rates, punctuated by economic crises, and persisting high levels of inequality, triggered a rising chorus of objections to Washington consensus policies in Latin America. Expansion in social programing has been an important consequence, including in countries where left governments...

This article examines the role of the middle classes in the divergent distributional outcomes that characterize South Korea and Chile. While equality has been historically low in South Korea, it has been high in Chile throughout the twentieth century, increasing substantially during the period of military rule. The analysis provides a historically...

This chapter considers the relationship between democracy and development in Mexico and Chile

Notes for Presentation

With the failure of market reform to generate sustained growth in many countries of the Global South, poverty reduction has become an urgent moral and political issue in the last several decades. In practice, considerable research shows that high levels of inequality are likely to produce high levels of criminal and political violence. On the road...

This is the new Preface to the Turkish edition of Social Democracy in the Global Periphery, which responds to developments since the original book was published.

This chapter, covering the period from the debt crisis to the late 1990s, explains the dramatic differences in economic growth and social outcomes among the three cases, South Korea, Chile and Mexico. It is in the decade of the 1980s that Korea pulls noticeably ahead of both Chile and Mexico. After 1987, Chile makes noticeably better gains than Mex...

The historical origins of poverty and inequality in Mexico are found in the constellation of social forces that emerged as dominant in the aftermath of the Mexican Revolution. Given the participation of peasants and workers in the revolutionary struggle, the Revolution raised the possibility of far-reaching reforms including land redistribution. Ho...

This chapter combines the insights of the previous three chapters with a consideration of the timing and pace of events in order to more fully explain the differences in social outcomes up to 1980. Doing so helps to shed more light on why poverty and inequality continued to be comparatively low into the 1980s and 1990s in South Korea. The chapter a...

This chapter examines the evolution of poverty and inequality and welfare regimes from the late 1990s to the present. It argues that while the pressures of globalization have created some similarities, the three cases continue to diverge in important respects.

The first part of this chapter deals with the way in which the creation of social categories early in a nation’s history combined with control or dominance of the state by one social force reproduces inequalities. The discussion of Chile and Mexico point out the ways in which state institutions were moulded by powerful social forces in ways that ma...

In the last 15 years, Mexico has experienced high levels of both political and criminal violence. While the Zapatistas are the most well-known insurgent group in southern Mexico, by the twenty-first century various sources were reporting guerrilla activities in the majority of states and in the Federal District.1 In addition, drug trafficking and d...

The chapter deals with the evolution of democracy in Chile

Notes for Presentation

This article is a revised and updated version of my 2004 article in Latin American Politics and Society

NOTE: This article has been republished in the IPSR Seventh Editors' Choice Collection, "The Politics of Inequality, 2016". This article takes as its starting point the current scholarly concern with democratic quality, poverty, and inequality. It notes the tendency of political leaderships at the federal level in Mexico and Chile to exclude politi...

Summary Inequality has been a long-standing feature of Latin America. This article is an examination of the redistributive and social policy struggles in two countries of the region: Mexico and Chile. While electoral democracy has propelled redistributive issues onto the policy agenda, redistributive struggles are intense and progress in policy to...

The impact of economic globalization for the countries of Latin America was profoundly shaped by the impact of the debt crisis of the early 1980s. For these countries, the emergence of transnational policy networks involving multilateral and domestic technocrats was instrumental in ushering in market reforms. By 2007, a variety of factors would see...

Social Democracy in the Global Periphery focuses on social-democratic regimes in the developing world that have, to varying degrees, reconciled the needs of achieving growth through globalized markets with extensions of political, social and economic rights. The authors show that opportunities exist to achieve significant social progress, despite a...

Social Democracy in the Global Periphery focuses on social-democratic regimes in the developing world that have, to varying degrees, reconciled the needs of achieving growth through globalized markets with extensions of political, social and economic rights. The authors show that opportunities exist to achieve significant social progress, despite a...

Social democracy assumes that unregulated markets produce unacceptable levels of inequality, suffering and injustice, and require a democratically-directed State action in order to redistribute income and foster a more egalitarian society. But to this end, Third World countries do not necessarily have to follow the classic European model. This arti...

To succeed, social-democratic movements in the global South must steer a course toward a society without poverty or social exclusion, avoiding two current utopian projects. The first utopia is a neoliberal fantasy, the self-regulating market. In the words of Karl Polanyi in The Great Transformation, this "would result in the demolition of society,"...

This article examines the World Bank's role in the market policy reform experiences of Mexico and Argentina. It argues that while reform was driven by domestic elites, the bank played an important role, providing technical advice and financial support and helping to spread market reform ideas. The nature of the bank's involvement, however, differed...

A comparative examination of the initial phases of market reform in Chile and Argentina reveals a merging of traditional elements of Latin American patrimonialism with the market reform agenda of technocrats. In both cases, patrimonial leaders and methods played an essential role in getting market reform under way and in keeping it on track. Patrim...

Incl. bibl. notes, abstract. The failure of market reforms in Latin America to produce sustained growth and equitable prosperity is demonstrated most clearly by Argentina's most recent economic and political meltdown. But economic difficulties, poverty and searing inequality has continued to plague the Mexican case as well. Latin American policy ma...

Globalization, a process that has been underway since the mid-1970s, is commonly understood as the elimination of economic borders and the increase in international exchange, particularly in terms of trade and investment flows. For the countries of Latin America, as well as for other less-developed countries, the era of globalization has involved a...

Market liberalizing reforms (or structural adjustment) and democratization have been the dual transformations undergone by most Latin American countries following the 1982 debt crisis. An in depth analysis of the Chilean, Argentine and Mexican cases demonstrates the importance of both international (particularly the World Bank and the IMF) and dome...

In the 1980s and 1990s, nations throughout Latin America experienced the dual transformations of market liberalizing reforms and democratization. Since then, perhaps no issue has been more controversial among those who study the region than the exact nature of the relationship between these two processes. Bringing a much-needed comparative perspect...

This article examines the Mexican and Argentine cases of market reform and argues that despite important differences in regime type and in recent economic and political trajectories, the decision-making process in the two countries came to display important common features. In both cases, economic crises and debt negotiations played key roles in pr...

Durante la última década, México ha llevado a cabo un programa de reforma económica neoliberal que ha implicado que el Estado abandone el papel altamente intervencionista característico del periodo anterior a 1982. Este artículo examina la relación entre dichas reformas y la erosión de los dos pilares del autoritarismo mexicano: el corporativismo y...

The chapter examines the impact of economic restructuring on state labor relations in Mexico

Since 1983, Mexico has undergone a rapid and thorough economic restructuring program, with privatization at the core. The government has divested itself of hundreds of public companies, increasing the role of private capital, both domestic and foreign. Supporters have argued that divestiture would have positive implications for Mexican democracy, b...

The electronic version of this book has been prepared by scanning TIFF 600 dpi bitonal images of the pages of the text. Original source: Privatization and political change in Mexico / Judith A. Teichman.; Teichman, Judith A., 1947-; xiv, 291 p. ; 24 cm.; Pittsburgh :; This electronic text file was created by Optical Character Recognition (OCR). No...