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419 CHAPTER 15 STRUCTURALISM AND DEPENDENCYINTRODUCTIONThis chapter examines why many Latin American countries whose economic devel-opment until the Second World War had been shaped overwhelmingly by agricul-ture and mining embarked on strategies that, instead, made industrialization a toppriority. It looks at the main economic argument that justified this policy shift, called STRUCTURALISM , and the profound implications this would have for the stateand the character of politics in Latin America. The strategies proposed and adoptedby economists to exploit a country s resources are of great importance to the waysin which social and political systems evolve.

POLITICS LATIN AMERICA 420 the emergence of unwieldy, centralizing states comprising large, bureaucratic minis-tries, and political expressions in the populism and corporatism that allowed elites

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