Market Economics and Political Change: Comparing China and Mexico - Softcover

Lindau, Juan

9780847687336: Market Economics and Political Change: Comparing China and Mexico

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0847687333 ISBN 13: 9780847687336

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, 1998

These essays review current theoretical debates, explore the role of regional context, and offer case studies of legal culture and civil society in Mexico and China to demonstrate the complexity of the relationship between market and democracy and the implications for other transitional polities such as Russia and for U.S. foreign policy. Designed for classroom use, this volume adds a focused comparative perspective for courses on Chinese, Asian-Pacific, and Latin American politics, development, and contemporary history.

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Review:

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, Stanford University

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, Earlham College "China Review International "

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 Zebad�a, advisor, Instituto Federal Electoral (Mexico)

About the Author:

Juan D. Lindau is Associate Professor of politics at Colorado College. Timothy Cheek is Associate Professor of history at Colorado College.

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