Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction | Kurt von Mettenheim and James Malloy
1. Battling for the Voter: Elections, Parties and Democracy in Mexico | Roderic Camp
2. Deepening Democracy with Dominant Parties and Presidentialism: The Venezuelan Regime in a Period of Turbulence | Enrique A. Balyora
3. Partisan Decline and Presidential Popularity: The Politics and Economics of Representation in Peru | Julio F. Carrión
4. Facing the Twenty-First Century: Bolivia in the 1990s | Eduardo A. Gamarra
5. Chilean Democracy Before and After Pinochet | Sylvia Borzutsky
6. The Symbolic Value of Economists in the Democratization of Chilean Politics | Verónica Montecinos
7. Direct Appeals, Political Machines, and Reform: Deepening Democracy in Brazil, 1985–1995 | Kurt von Mettenheim
8. Between Restructuring and Impasse: Liberal Democracy, Exclusionary Policy Making, and Neoliberal Programs in Argentina and Uruguay | Aldo C. Vacs
Conclusion | Kurt von Mettenheim and James Malloy
Notes
Notes on Contributors
Index