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Frontmatter -- Contents -- List of Contributors -- Acknowledgments -- PART I: THEORETICAL AND COMPARATIVE ISSUES -- 1. Economic Reform and Democratization in Latin America -- 2. The Missing Social Contract: Governability and Reform in Latin America -- 3. The Prospects for Open Regionalism in Latin America -- PART II: COUNTRY CASE STUDIES: POLITICAL PARTIES AND SOCIAL FORCES -- 4. Economic Reform in Argentina: Which Social Forces for What Aims? -- 5. Brazil's Drifting Economy: Stagnation and Inflation During 1987-1996 -- 6. Macroeconomic Adjustment in Chile and the Politics of the Popular Sectors -- 7. Trade Unions and the Corporatist System in Mexico -- 8. Interest Representation and the Party System in Mexico -- PART III: HYBRID REGIMES AND NEOPLURALIST POLITICS -- 9. Is the Century of Corporatism Over? Neoliberalism and the Rise of Neopluralism -- 10. New Democracies and Economic Crisis in Latin America -- 11. Conclusions: What Kind of Democracy? What Kind of Market? -- References -- Index

Enthält u.a. Rezensionen von: Agosin, Marjorie: Tapestries of hope, threads of love: The Arpillera movement in Chile, 1974-1994. - Albuquerque : University of New Mexico Press, 1996. - 142 S

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