The state of anomie that has characterised and still characterises most Latin American countries, resulting from the fragmentation of the social fabric, has encouraged the rise of successful personalist leaderships in the '90s. This paper aims at investigating how neopopulism developed in Latin...

Using a common methodology, the effects of unions on wage levels and wage dispersion are estimated for two neighboring countries, Bolivia and Chile, and for the U.S. The analysis shows that unions have broadly similar effects on the wage distribution within these three economies. The findings...

"The author is a labor lawyer for various unions. He argues for a 'mixed' economy that will allow the government and the workers to balance off the power of capital, which is becoming too great under neoliberalism"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57