A fines de los anos 80, partidos populistas de base laboral, que habian promovido el proteccionismo durante la posguerra, implementaron reformas de mercado en la Argentina, Mexico y Venezuela. En los tres casos dichas reformas afectaban a los sindicatos aliados con los partidos gobernantes de...

This paper analyzes the reaction of teachers' and doctors' unions to a series of social sector reforms in the region, including administrative decentralization, provider payment mechanisms, and the introduction of performance evaluation and private provision. It combines the literature of...

Recent policy debates on the reform of social service delivery systems focus on the decentralization of services and the introduction of competition in order to improve the quality of services. Despite the common assumption that public sector unions oppose these reforms, their responses were...

Due to economic crises, labor parties followed economic policies that hurt labor unions during the 1990s, such as trade liberalization and privatization. This book explains why labor unions resisted on some occasions, and submitted on others, and the consequences of their actions by studying...