A former National Science Foundation and Ford Fellow, Mark Eric Williams is associate professor of political science at Middlebury College.

• Part 1 PART I: Introduction and TheoryChapter 2 Caught in the Paradigm ShiftChapter 3 Explaining Policy Reform: Strategies, Institutions, and CoalitionsPart 4 PART II: Case StudiesChapter 5 Privatizing Aeroméxico, Cananea, and SicartsaChapter 6 Deregulating Freight TransportChapter 7 The Challenge of Environmental Policy ReformPart 8 PART III: Generalizing the Argument and ConclusionChapter 9 Policy Reform in Comparative Perspective: Privatization in ArgentinaChapter 10 Rethinking the Politics of Reform: Retrospect and Legacies

Market Reforms in Mexico is an impressive, original, and meticulously argued work that brings a fresh focus to bear on the by-now familiar question of how and why market-oriented reforms are successful. By juxtaposing Mexico's successful program of privatization and deregulation with its largely unsuccessful efforts in the area of environmental reform, Williams persuades us that the capacity to reform is at least as important as the motivation to do so. This rare look inside the state, and the struggles of reformers to forge coalitions, gain leverage over policy, and overcome the opposition of the losers fills in so much of what has been assumed about economic reform that it forces us to rethink many of the most fundamental precepts of our literature on political economy.