Politics after Neoliberalism: Reregulation in Mexico

by Richard Snyder

Overview

During the past two decades, virtually all developing countries shifted from state-led to market-oriented neoliberal economic policies. This book analyzes fresh evidence from Southern Mexico about the effects of this global wave of policy reforms. The evidence challenges the widely held view that these reforms have set countries on a convergent path toward unregulated markets. The analysis shows that free-market reforms, rather than unleashing market forces, trigger the construction of different types of new regulatory institutions with contrasting consequences for economic efficiency and social justice.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521688703
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	05/22/2006
Series:	Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
Edition description:	1ST
Pages:	274
Product dimensions:	5.98(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.59(d)

About the Author

Richard Snyder is Associate Professor of Political Science at Brown University. He previously taught at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. He has been a visiting fellow at the Harvard Academy for International and Area Studies and at the Center for US-Mexican Studies at the University of California, San Diego. His research has been supported by numerous institutions, including the National Science Foundation, the Institute of International Education, and the Institute for the Study of World Politics. He is the editor of three volumes on the political economy of rural Mexico, including Institutional Adaptation and Innovation in Rural Mexico. His articles have appeared in such journals as World Politics, Comparative Politics, Studies in Comparative International Development, and the British Journal of Political Science.

Table of Contents

Part I. The Framework and Comparative Analysis: 1. Rethinking the consequences of Neoliberalism; 2. From deregulation to regulation in the Mexican coffee sector; Part II. The Cases: 3. Remaking corporatism from below: a participatory policy framework in Oaxaca; 4. When corporatism and democracy collide: an exclusionary policy framework in Guerrero; 5. Peasants and oligarchs: stalemate and transition to a participatory policy framework in Chiapas; 6. Oligarchs as the dominant force: an exclusionary policy framework in Puebla; Part III. The Conclusion: 7. After neoliberalism: what next?

Editorial Reviews

"Numerous studies have been conducted on the consequences of the economic deregulation, but ew possess the analytical clarity, methodological rigor, and theoretical sophistication of Richard Synder's Politics after Neoliberalism. American Journal of Sociology

"This is a useful account of subnational political economy that also provides insight into the PRI's varied responses to diverse cross-pressures during the 1980's and the 1990's. Recommended for advaced undergraduates and above." Choice

"This is an important book that deserves to be read by students of comparative political economy and Latin American and Mexican politics." American Political Science Review

"...theoretically and empirically interesting and important." Political Science Quarterly

"As a whole, this book is a model of how to do comparative politics.... The empirical complexity and the highly nuanced nature of his main argument form an inspiring departure from over-simplified, one-dimensional analyses. Consequently, his study answers many questions but asks many more, some of which the author himself discusses in the final chapter. That is a mark of first-rate scholarship. Politics After Neoliberalism will rapidly become a classic in the comparative political economy literature, a work that will be required reading for graduate students and scholars interested in the politics of post-neoliberalism, the developing world, and the subnational comparative method." Latin American Politics and Society

"The subnational comparative case-study approach used by Richard Snyder in Politics after Neoliberalism is perhaps the best example of this kind of work currently available." Latin American Research Review

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