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Book SynopsisThis book will interest scholars of Latin American politics, democratization studies, market reform, and comparative politics and international relations.
Trade ReviewAnalytically sophisticated and heavily documented with an extensive bibliography. It belongs in all college and university libraries... Highly recommended. Choice 2008 Highly original academic work. -- Russell Crandall Survival Gonzalez's book is a serious attempt to understand the complex processes of political and economic change in Chile and Mexico. It is worth reading, and opens up an important debate about authoritarian rule and its pernicious consequences. -- Reynaldo Yunuen Ortega Oritz Journal of Latin American Studies 2010
Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Introduction: Dual Transitions from Authoritarian Rule
Part I: The 1970s: Divergent Politicoeconomic Trajectories
1. Chile, 1970–1982
2. Mexico, 1970–1982
Part II: The 1980s: Surviving the Crisis Years and Convergence of Trajectories
3. Chile's Decisive Decade, 1982–1990
4. Mexico's Lost Decade, 1982–1988
Part III: The 1990s: Versions of Electoral Democracy and Free Market Economies
5. The New Chile, 1990–2000
6. Mexico in North America, 1988–2000
Conclusion: Dual Transitions in Chile, Mexico, and Beyond
Notes
Bibliography
Index
