Political-Economic Conceptions in Argentina During the New Democratic Era in The Face of the Public Sector Crisis and A Hostile Economic Context: Between Alfonsinist Rhetoric and Economic Problems (1983-1985)

Abstract

The work addresses the political-economic discussions around the first years of the democratic return in Argentina of Raúl Alfonsin (1983-1989). Especially the focus is on political-economic conceptions and their relationship with the general context of the economic crisis of Latin American debt and its incidence in Argentina in the democratic years. For this, the initial speeches of the president in different instances have been consulted as a set of statistics that allow to account for the relationship between the severe economic context and its relationship with the understanding of the government at the time of the transition from an authoritarian regime to a democratic one. We have been able to realize that the initial economic discourse of the government was imbued with a strong democratic rhetoric that made it difficult to plan an unprecedented crisis with new tools. Thus, the discussion to which we contribute is related to the debates around the first economic conceptions of the government and with a view to constituting an input to understand the later economic changes and initiatives of a more orthodox profile.