Table of Contents

Introduction
1: Carlos M. Vilas: Participation, Inequality, and the Whereabouts of Democracy
Section I: Traditional Actors, New Settings
2: Scott B. Martin: Beyond Corporatism: New Patterns of Representation in the Brazilian Auto Industry
3: M. Victoria Murillo: Union Politics, Market-Orientated Reforms and the Reshaping of Argentine Corporatism
4: Anthony W. Pereira: The Crisis of Developmentalism and the Rural Labor Movement in Northeast Brazil
Section II: Searching for New Forms of Participation
5: Margarita Lopez-Maya: The Rise of Causa R in Venezuela
6: Kathleen Bruhn: The Seven-Month Itch?: Neoliberal Politics, Popular Movements, and the Left in Mexico
7: Melina Selverston: The Politics of Identity Reconstruction: Indians and Democracy in Ecuador
8: Kathryn Hochstetler: The Evolution of the Brazilian Environmental Movement and Its Political Roles
9: Aldo Panfichi: The Authoritarian Alternative: Anti-Politics Among the Popular Sectors of Lima
Section III: The Stubbornness of Violence
10: Deborah J. Yashar: The Quetzal is Red: Military States, Popular Movements, and Political Violence in Guatemala
11: Paulo Sergio Pinheiro: Popular Responses to State-Sponsored Violence in Brazil
12: Jo-Marie Burt: Political Violence and the Grassroots in Lima, Peru
Section IV: Dilemmas of a Social Democratic Project
13: Kenneth M. Roberts: Rethinking Economic Alternatives: Left Parties and the Articulation of Popular Demands in Chile and Peru
14: Eric Hershberg: Market-Orientated Development Strategies and State-Society Relations in New Democracies: Lessons from Contemporary Chile and Spain
15: Fernando Fildueira and Jorge Papadopulos: Putting Conservatism to Good Use?: Long Crisis and Vetoed Alternatives in Uruguay
Section V: Reconstructing Representation
16: Jonathan Fox: The Difficult Transition from Clientelism to Citizenship: Lessons from Mexico
17: William R. Nylen: Reconstructing the Workers Party (PT): Lessons from Northeastern Brazil
18: Peter Winn and Lilia Ferro-Clerico: Can a Leftist Government Make a Difference?: The Frente Amplio Administration of Montevideo, 1990-1994
19: Kerianne Piester: Targeting the Poor: The Politics of Social Policy Reforms in Mexico
20: Monique Segarra: Redefining the Public/Private Mix: NGOs and the Emergency Social Investment Fund in Ecuador
21: Maria Lorena Cook: Regional Integration and Transnational Politics: Popular Sector Strategies in the NAFTA Era
Conclusion
22: Douglas A. Chalmers: Associative Networks: New Structures of Representation for the Popular Sectors?
Contributors List
Bibliography

About the Author

Douglas A. Chalmers is Professor of Political Science at Columbia University and Acting Dean of its School of International and Public Affairs. Chalmers has written several articles on political institutions and the state in Latin America, and he is co-editor (with Maria do Campello de Souza and Atilio Borón) of The Right and Democracy in Latin America (1992). He received his Ph.D. from Yale University. Chalmers's recent research has focused on
transnational linkages and on Mexico, where he taught at El Colegio de Mexico and where he led a team of researchers investigating the role of non-governmental organizations in that country. Carlos M. Vilas is Research
Professor at Universidad Nacional Autónoma de Mexico. He is the author of numerous articles and books, including State, Class and Ethnicity in Nicaragua (1989) and Between Earthquakes and Volcanoes: Market, States and the Central American Revolutions His current research focuses on the on-going restructuring of state/market/civil society relations in Latin America and its impact on processes of democratization.

Reviews

`will probably remain as a seminal work. It brilliantly embodies a highly welcomed evolution in the way the political changes in Latin America are studied'
Latin American Studies.