This book examines the relationship between free markets and democracy. It demonstrates how the implementation of even very painful free-market economic reforms

Latin American Democratic Transformations explores the manner in which Latin American societies seek to consolidate and deepen their democracies in adverse dome

In recent years first Chile, then Argentina, Brazil, and Mexico have abandoned decades-old authoritarian political regimes and state-directed economic strategie

What becomes clear throughout is that there is a paradox at the heart of Latin America's democracies. Despite decades of struggle to replace authoritarian dicta

A historic shift has occurred in the organizational structures through which the lower classes in Latin America express voice and find political representation.