...Roderic A. Camp The Mexican Ruling Party: Stability and Authority . By Story Dale . New York : Praeger , 1986 . Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. 160 . Cloth. $32.95 . Copyright 1987 by Duke University Press 1987 With the tremendous interest in Mexico since...

...Ronald H. McDonald Legitimacy and Stability in Latin America: A Study of Chilean Political Culture . By Moreno Francisco José . New York , 1969 . New York University Press . Tables. Notes. Appendices . Pp. xviii , 197 . Copyright 1970 by Duke University Press 1970...

...Kenneth F. Johnson Mexico: Paradoxes of Stability and Change . By Levy Daniel and SzÉkely Gabriel . Foreword by Schneider Ronald . Boulder : Westview Press , 1983 . Map. Illustrations. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xv , 287 . Cloth . $27.50 . Paper...

...: Social Control and Political Stability in the New State . By Flory Thomas . Austin : University of Texas Press , 1981 . Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index. Pp. xiii, 268. Cloth . $19.95 . Subject to these reservations, Flory’s work can be recommended as an important and original...

...Dario Moreno Central America and the United States: The Search for Stability . By Leonard Thomas M. . Athens : University of Georgia Press , 1991 . Maps. Notes. Bibliography . xvi , 244 pp. Cloth , $35.00 . Paper , $15.00 . Understanding the Central American Crisis...

...Ronald H. Chilcote Political Forces in Latin America: Dimensions of the Quest for Stability . By Burnett Ben G. and Johnson Kenneth F. . Belmont , 1968 . Wadsworth Publishing Company . Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index . Pp. 587 . $9.95 . Copyright 1969 by Duke...

... intrusion may end a crisis, but limited intervention and a few supervised elections cannot guarantee the political stability and well-being of a nation” (p. 236). He hopes what happened in Nicaragua will not happen again. In view of this last sentence, are we to infer that “unlimited” intervention would...

...Russell E. Smith The International Monetary Fund and Economic Stabilization: The Argentine Case . By Manzetti Luigi . New York : Praeger Publishers , 1991 . Tables. Bibliography. Index . xii , 239 pp. $49.95 . Copyright 1992 by Duke University Press 1992 This study...

... with the stabilization programs, the adoption of free trade, privatization, and tax reforms, all from the perspective of their impact on government finances. Finally, these volumes pay virtually no attention at all to the role of the highly industrialized nations in bringing about the debt crisis, which, beginning...

... stabilization program. It tells of Eder’s negotiations with government leaders and his work in convincing the chiefs of the governing party, the Movimiento Nacionalista Revolucionario. This section also describes the need for a drastic program of price control and the measures which he thought desirable...

...Juandrea M. Bates Abstract This article examines how legal concepts of age and family shaped the status of immigrants in Argentina from 1869 to 1920. While historians have long explored the effects that immigration had on Argentina's culture, economic development, and political stability...

... and economic questions at the national level while investigating the implementation of stabilization policies in the five countries. Liberalism and neoliberalism are at the center of the debate. For some of the authors, neoliberal policies constrain democratic development. Others see liberalism in a positive...

... are demonstrative less of honest and open debate than of the fine art of dissembling. Schoultz’s examination of the role of “national security” in U.S. policy toward Latin America focuses on the perceptions of those who make or influence policy with regard to “stability.” He conceptualizes those perceptions...

... of regional history. While the great majority of the material comes from published, if very obscure, sources, the author has also analyzed quite carefully materials on tax revenues, exports, and foreign trade. His favorite topic is the story of political stability via conservative innovations that addressed...

... studying or teaching recent Latin American history. Gathered here are reasonably comparable analyses of six major Latin American stabilization attempts of the 1970s. The three largest countries are here: Argentina (Guido di Telia), Brazil (John Wells), and Mexico (E. V. K. FitzGerald). Di Telia focuses...

...Robert Aubey In addition to an excellent study of Mexico’s pattern of economic growth, Mr. Thompson, in his analysis of the transition from inflation to price stability, provides a rare view of economic policy formation in what is in many ways a closed political system. The author’s examination...

... or that project will or even could bear fruit. Nor is the author always consistent. As he puts it: “Paraguay is the only South American country that can boast political and monetary stability sustained over a period of years.” He further anticipates a continuation of the present pattern of stability. He...

.... Sierra is too astute to perpetrate anything so simplistic. Instead, he and his co-authors note that any stabilization program must be tailored to a particular politico-socio-economic situation. They then proceed to give the reader the sorts of criteria and studies which must be applied to derive a viable...

... of Mexico’s evolution, the 1950s mark the beginning of what has popularly become known as the period of stable development. The first volume is devoted to internal political affairs, covering four broad topics: means of political stability, negotiations with labor, fissures in political stability...

... , assert that in the late nineteenth century in Spanish America, political stability resulted from economic growth based on agricultural exports, and that this growth and stability depended on demand from the United States and Europe. Put in abstract terms, South American developing nations were dependent...