Preface -- Markets, states, and the challenge of development in Latin America -- Import-substitution industrialization and the great transformation in Latin America -- Neoliberalism and its discontents -- Democracy, development and the pink tide -- Latin America's golden era? / with Hélène...

The second term of the Bush administration seems marked by an apparent emphasis on the spread of democracy around the world. George W. Bush made this point clear during the November 2004 presidential speech. What looks striking is how a concept almost irrelevant during the 2000 campaign gained...

Why does liberal democracy take hold in some countries but not in others? Why do we observe such different outcomes in military interventions, from Germany and Japan to Afghanistan and Iraq? Do efforts to export democracy help as much as they hurt? These are some of the most enduring questions...