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
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
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 251-260) and index
