MODERATE POPULISM - A POLITICAL INTERPRET ATION OF ARGENTINA 1991 CONVERTIBILITY PLAN

Approaching from the perspective of a political science analysis, the article focuses on the interactions between an economic stabilization plan - Argentina's 1991 Convertibility Plan - and the pro-market progr am of reforms that was implemented from the beginning of the Carlos Me nem Administration. It highlights the political and institutional fact ors that made it possible to architect and expansive stabilizing polic y the relevance of the political effects of implementing this program, and the crucial interrelationship between the government's coalitiona l policy, the reform program, and macroeconomic policy.