Market Economics and Political Change Comparing China and Mexico

by Lindau, Juan D.; Cheek, Timothy; Christoffersen, Gaye; Dominguez, Jorge I.; Finley, David D.; Hendrickson, David; Meyer, Lorenzo; Packenham, Robert A.; Potter, Pitman B.

• ISBN13: 9780847687329
• ISBN10: 0847687325
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 1998-06-11
• Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Summary

Does market liberalization promote democracy? The accepted answer from scholars, pundits, and politicians alike has been yes. However, the contributors to this innovative study of market reforms and political change in Mexico and the People's Republic of China argue that this easy equation is not only empirically uncertain but methodologically flawed. Using comparative contextual analysis, the contributors carefully identify the elective affinities between these two very different polities to reveal key variables that determine how markets will affect democracy, particularly law as the 'rudder of democracy' and the role of political culture in civil society.

Table of Contents

Preface	vii
Part I Theoretical Context	3	(56)
1 Market Liberalization and Democratization: The Case for Comparative Contextual Analysis	3	(30)
Timothy Cheek
Juan D. Lindau
2 Market Economics and Political Change: A Historical and Theoretical Examination	33	(26)
Jorge I. Dominguez
Part II Regional Context	59	(68)
3 Market-Oriented Reforms and National Development in Latin America	59	(36)
Robert A. Packenham
4 Socialist Marketization and East Asian Industrial Structure: Locating Civil Society in China	95	(32)
Gaye Christoffersen
Part III Judicial System, Civil Society, and Political Culture	127	(128)
5 Mexico: Economic Liberalism in an Authoritarian Polity	127	(32)
Lorenzo Meyer
6 Economic and Legal Reform in China: Whither Civil Society and Democratization?	159	(28)
Pitman B. Potter
7 The Civil Society and Democratization in Mexico	187	(32)
Juan D. Lindau
8 From Market to Democracy in China: Gaps in the Civil Society Model	219	(36)
Timothy Cheek
Part IV Extending the Analysis	255	(46)
9 Constructive Engagement and Economic Sanctions: The Debate over Intervention for Democracy	255	(24)
David Hendrickson
10 Market Liberalization and Democratic Politics: Perspectives from the Russian Experience	279	(22)
David D. Finley
Bibliography	301	(28)
Index	329	(16)
About the Editors and Contributors	345