Download or read book Market, State, and Society in Contemporary Latin America written by William C. Smith and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2010-02-22 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Market, State and Society demonstrates the crucial role of differing configurations of domestic actors, interests and institutions in mediating the effects of globalization on welfare regimes, labor politics, and popular contestation. A variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives shed light on the recent transformations in relations among market, state, and society in Latin American countries Results are based on thorough empirical research Challenges simplistic arguments concerning state decline and describes the more complex nature of the situation