Miraculous Metamorphoses

Jolle Demmers is a lecturer in development studies and urban sociology at Utrecht University, and managing editor of the Thela Latin America Series of Thela Thesis, Amsterdam. She is author of Friends and Bitter Enemies: Politics and Neoliberal Reform in Yucatan, Mexico (1998).Alex E. Fernandez Jilberto is a senior lecturer in international relations Section at the University of Amsterdam. His books include Institutional and Economic Changes in Latin America, Africa and Asia (1996) and Regionalization and Globalization in the Modern World Economy (1998). Barbara Hogenboom is a lecturer at CEDLA, the Centre for Latin American Research and Documentation in Amsterdam. Her books include Mexico and the NAFTA Environment Debate: The Transnational Politics of Economic Integration (1998).

• 1. The Transformation of Latin American Populism - Demmers, Fernández Jilberto and Hogenboom2. From Import Substitution Industrialization to the 'Open' Economy in Argentina - Miguel Teubal3. The Neoliberal Ideological Transformation of Chilean Populism - Fernández Jilberto4. The Cardoso Administration and Brazil's Transition to the Third Millennium - Karla Lemanski-Valente5. Populism and Authoritarianism: An Old Vice of Peruvian Politics in the Neoliberal Era - Giuseppe Solfrini6. Neo-liberalism, Economic Crisis and Popular Mobilization in Ecuador - Jean Carriere7. Neoliberal Reform and Populist Politics: The PRI in Mexico - Jolle Demmers8. The Double Defeat of the Revolutionary Left in Central America - Kees Biekart

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