Eduardo Silva is Professor of Political Science and a Fellow of the Center for International Studies at the University of Missouri - St. Louis. He is the author of The State and Capital in Chile and coeditor of Organized Business, Economic Change, and Democracy in Latin America and Elections and Democratization in Latin America, 1980–85. His articles have appeared in World Politics, Comparative Politics, Development and Change, Latin American Research Review, Journal of Latin American Studies, Latin American Politics and Society, and European Review of Latin American and Caribbean Studies, among others.

• 1. The inconvenient fact of antineoliberal mobilization; 2. Contentious politics, contemporary market society, and power; 3. The argument: explaining episodes of antineoliberal contention in Latin America; 4. Argentina; 5. Bolivia; 6. Ecuador; 7. Venezuela; 8. Peru and Chile; Conclusion.

'Waves of social protest against market liberalization have radically transformed Latin America's political landscape since the 1990s, but there has been considerable variation in the levels and patterns of popular mobilization across cases. Eduardo Silva explains why in this pathbreaking analysis of how diverse social actors mobilize and coordinate resistance to market society. Silva's account makes a major contribution to the study of social movements in Latin America, and it sheds new light on the role of social actors in the demise of the 'Washington consensus' for neoliberal reform and the political shift to the Left that followed in its wake.' Kenneth M. Roberts, Robert S. Harrison Director, Institute for the Social Sciences, Cornell University