Big Business, the State, and Free Trade - Constructing Coalitions in Mexico

Klappentext Explains trade policy coalition politics and the opening of Mexico's economy. Zusammenfassung Why has the Mexican government risked alienating its primary contituencies by pursuing trade opening and joining NAFTA? Big Business! the State! and Free Trade argues that Mexico's trade reforms are the product of the formation of political coalitions between business and the state in different international contexts. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of figures; List of tables; List of abbreviations; Acknowledgments; 1. Introduction: international context, domestic interests and Mexican trade reform; 2. Coalition politics and free trade; 3. Structural power relations between business and the Mexican state; 4. Trade policy coalitions in the 1980s; 5. Assembling teams and building bridges; 6. Business participation in the NAFTA negotiations; 7. Conclusion: Mexico in comparative perspective; Appendix; References; Index.

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• Authors: Strom C. Thacker, Strom C. (Boston University) Thacker, Strom Cronan Thacker, Thacker Strom C.
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 02.11.2006
• EAN: 9780521032131
• ISBN: 978-0-521-03213-1
• No. of pages: 256
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Mexico, POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Economy, Political Economy