Latin America suffered a profound state crisis in the 1980s, which prompted not only the wave of macroeconomic and deregulation reforms known as the Washington

Conventional wisdom views globalization as an imposition on unwilling workers in developing nations; the rise of the Latin American left constituting a popular

This is the first book to compare the distinctive welfare states of Latin America, East Asia, and Eastern Europe. Stephan Haggard and Robert Kaufman trace the h

This volume documents and explains the reduction of income inequality that has taken place in the majority of Latin American countries over the last decade.