A shift in economic strategy can be politically manageable while providing for the emergence of a democratically based export-led coalition if inherited economic distortions are mild, political mobilization associated with the democratic transition is low, liberalization on the trade regime is...

The article sketches a development model for small economies in the 1990s as an alternative to the neoliberal model pushed by the IMF. It reviews the experience of Jamaica with various development models from the 1950s to the 1990s. It also draws lessons from the experience of small European...

Der Artikel beschäftigt sich mit der Frage, ob in Mexiko die ökonomische Liberalisierung mit einer politischen Liberalisierung einhergeht, beziehungsweise in welchem Wechselverhältnis beide Prozesse zueinander stehen. Dabei werden die Regierungszeiten von Carlos Salinas de Gortari und Ernesto...