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Enduring Reform stands out in a large body of literature examining political reform by focusing specifically on the reaction of business interests to examples of successful progressive reform in Argentina, Brazil and Mexico. Given the growing recognition of the importance of markets, public-private partnerships and the private sector more generally, such a focus is long overdue. --Philip Oxhorn, McGill University

The book also adds a new analytical dimension, asking how, in each case, these projects have been received by local business, what this tells us about the future of such reforms, and what it all means for the health of democracy. --Latin American Research Review Enduring Reform stands out in a large body of literature examining political reform by focusing specifically on the reaction of business interests to examples of successful progressive reform in Argentina, Brazil and Mexico. Given the growing recognition of the importance of markets, public-private partnerships and the private sector more generally, such a focus is long overdue. --Philip Oxhorn, McGill University With a series of case studies from across Latin America that document whether, how, and why private sector actors might embrace progressive reforms to longstanding market or state practices, Jeffrey Rubin and Vivienne Bennett reveal the impacts of culture, history, and new forms of institutional and civic collaboration in the constant struggle to attain justice and achieve recognition in societies seeking to reverse the inequities of the past. This volume is not for those who want pat answers consistent with conventional ideological posturing about neoliberalism and its discontents. But for those who are willing to acknowledge the complexities and contradictions of progressive social change, and who want to know how citizens themselves have negotiated the boundaries of power through on-going political and social activism, sometimes in ways that help overturn the legacies of privilege, this book will gratify. --Diane E. Davis, Harvard University Enduring Reform is a novel, innovative and important collection exploring the nuances and complexities of business responses to progressive politics in contemporary Latin America. Rubin and Bennett offer a masterful collection that shows ways of thinking of businesspeoples' motivations and preferences that go beyond simple economic explanations and crude assumptions about hostility to progressive movements. --Peter Kingstone, King's College London

With a series of case studies from across Latin America that document whether, how, and why private sector actors might embrace progressive reforms to longstanding market or state practices, Jeffrey Rubin and Vivienne Bennett reveal the impacts of culture, history, and new forms of institutional and civic collaboration in the constant struggle to attain justice and achieve recognition in societies seeking to reverse the inequities of the past. This volume is not for those who want pat answers consistent with conventional ideological posturing about neoliberalism and its discontents. But for those who are willing to acknowledge the complexities and contradictions of progressive social change, and who want to know how citizens themselves have negotiated the boundaries of power through on-going political and social activism, sometimes in ways that help overturn the legacies of privilege, this book will gratify. --Diane E. Davis, Harvard University Enduring Reform stands out in a large body of literature examining political reform by focusing specifically on the reaction of business interests to examples of successful progressive reform in Argentina, Brazil and Mexico. Given the growing recognition of the importance of markets, public-private partnerships and the private sector more generally, such a focus is long overdue. --Philip Oxhorn, McGill University Enduring Reform is a novel, innovative and important collection exploring the nuances and complexities of business responses to progressive politics in contemporary Latin America. Rubin and Bennett offer a masterful collection that shows ways of thinking of businesspeoples' motivations and preferences that go beyond simple economic explanations and crude assumptions about hostility to progressive movements. --Peter Kingstone, King's College London The book also adds a new analytical dimension, asking how, in each case, these projects have been received by local business, what this tells us about the future of such reforms, and what it all means for the health of democracy. --Latin American Research Review

With a series of case studies from across Latin America that document whether, how, and why private sector actors might embrace progressive reforms to longstanding market or state practices, Jeffrey Rubin and Vivienne Bennett reveal the impacts of culture, history, and new forms of institutional and civic collaboration in the constant struggle to attain justice and achieve recognition in societies seeking to reverse the inequities of the past. This volume is not for those who want pat answers consistent with conventional ideological posturing about neoliberalism and its discontents. But for those who are willing to acknowledge the complexities and contradictions of progressive social change, and who want to know how citizens themselves have negotiated the boundaries of power through on-going political and social activism, sometimes in ways that help overturn the legacies of privilege, this book will gratify. --Diane E. Davis, Harvard University

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Jeffrey W. Rubin is associate professor of history at Boston University. He is the author of Decentering the Regime: Ethnicity, Radicalism, and Democracy in Juchitan, Mexico, coauthor of Sustaining Activism: A Brazilian Women's Movement and A Father-Daugh Vivienne Bennett, the author of The Politics of Water, chairs the Liberal Studies Department at California State University, San Marcos.

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