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Building new democracies : economic and social reform in Brazil, Chile, and Mexico / Michel Duquette.
- Title
- Building new democracies : economic and social reform in Brazil, Chile, and Mexico / Michel Duquette.
- Author
- Duquette, Michel, 1947-
- Publication
- Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, c1999.
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- Description
- x, 287 p. : ill.; 23 cm.
- Summary
- "In Building New Democracies Michel Duquette analyses the main public policies of Brazil, Chile, and Mexico to explore examples of how countries make the transition from an authoritarian regime to a democratic society." "The main objective of the book is to follow the process of policy formation in very young democracies."--Jacket.
- Series Statement
- Studies in comparative political economy and public policy ; 7
- Uniform Title
- Studies in comparative political economy and public policy 7.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. [251]-260) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- Domestic Determinants of Economic Reforms -- Identifying the Variables Relevant to the Study of Adjustment -- The Determination of the Political Executive to Undertake Market Adjustment -- The Role of Competent and Honest Technicians -- The Autonomy of the Reformist State -- The Influence of Electoral Cycles -- Privileged Linkages with Corporate Interest Groups -- A New Relationship between State and Labour -- Assessing the Economic Performance of Reforms -- International Determinants of Economic Reforms -- Gaining International Support for Domestic Reform -- Adjustment through Regional Integration -- Regional Integration in Support of Market-Oriented Policies -- Obstacles to Integration in Partially Liberalized Markets -- Theoretical Linkages between Regional Determinants and Endogenous Variables -- Will MERCOSUR Support the Consolidation of Southern Cone Democracies? -- Determinants of Social Reforms -- Adjustment against Justice -- Agrarian Reform and the Modernization of Agriculture -- The Issue of Science and Education -- Public Intervention against Marginality -- In Search of Political Conditions to Pursue Social Policies.
- ISBN
- 0802044026 (bound)
- 0802082092 (pbk.)
- LCCN
- ^^^00550530^
- OCLC
- 40339514
- SCSB-10019153
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library