Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
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978-0-8476-8732-9 • Hardback • June 1998 • $162.00 • (£125.00) - Currently out of stock. Copies will arrive soon.
978-0-585-12200-7 • eBook • January 2000 • $43.50 • (£35.00)
Juan D. Lindau is Associate Professor of politics at Colorado College. Timothy Cheek is Associate Professor of history at Colorado College.
Chapter 1
Chapter I: Theoretical Context
Chapter 2 Market Liberalization and Democratization: The Case for Comparative Contextual Analysis
Chapter 3 Market Economics and Political Change: A Historical and Theoretical Examination
Chapter 4
Chapter II: Regional Context
Chapter 5 Market-Oriented Reforms and National Development in Latin America
Chapter 6 Socialist Marketization and East Asian Industrial Structure: Locating Civilized Society in China
Chapter 7
Chapter III: Judicial System, Civil Society, and Political Culture
Chapter 8 Mexico: Economic Liberalism in an Authoritarian Polity
Chapter 9 Economic and Legal Reform in China: Whither Civil Society and Democratization?
Chapter 10 Civil Society and Democratization in Mexico
Chapter 11 From Market to Democracy in China: Gaps in the Civil Society Model
Chapter 12
Chapter IV. Extending the Analysis
Chapter 13 Constructive Engagement and Economic Sanctions: The Debate Over Intervention for Democracy
Chapter 14 Market Liberalization and Democratic Politics: Perspectives from the Russian Experience
A unique undertaking and a delight. By putting Mexico and China side by side and setting the task of comparison in an entirely new context, the editors are able to tackle many of the old questions about political culture, political development, and state-society relations in entirely new and original ways....
— Timothy Brook
This erudite volume is exemplary of what all good edited books should do but too often fail to achieve. All the contributors focus on a common theme [and] they have a lively dialogue adressing one another's work....This important volume provides a most lucid, systematic, and up-to-date survey of the important literature in this field....
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A most lucid, systematic, and up-to-date survey of the important literature in this field. . . . This erudite volume is exemplary f what all good edited books should do but too often fail to achieve.....
— Maria Chan Morgan
This book is certainly a good starting point for comparative studies. It sheds light on such important issues as free market economies and an empowered civil society that would be in favor of an operative democratic system.....
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This book comes at a time when Mexico, after a process of market reforms, is confronting a historical legacy of authoritarianism. Triggered by economic and political opening, Mexico?s civil society is demanding a deep democratic transformation of the Mexican state. This book puts forth some of the practical and theoretical contradictions and difficulties a country faces while trying to adapt to both rapid economic and political change....
— Emilio Zebadúa