Contributor
Korzeniewicz, Roberto Patricio.
ImprintWestport, Connecticut : Praeger, 1996.
Descriptionxii, 280 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Note:The essays included in this volume were originally presented at the nineteenth annual Conference on the Political Economy of the World-System, which was held in Coral Gables on April 20-22, 1995. --Preface.
Note:A Great Transformation? / by Roberto Patricio Korzeniewicz and William C. Smith -- The Cocaine Commodity Chain and Development Paths in Peru and Bolivia / Amy Bellone -- Uncertainty, Innovation, and Global Competitiveness: tehe Brazilian Footwear Industry / Miguel E. Korzeniewicz -- Small Firms, Social Capital, and Global Commodity Chains: Some Lessons from the Tex-Mex Border in the Era of Free Trade / David Spener -- Globalization, the State, and the Informal Economy: The Limits to Peripheralization in the Latin American Periphery / José Itzigsohn -- Transnational Realities and Anti-Immigrant State Policies: Issues Raised by the Experiences of Central American Immigrants and Refugees in a Trinational Region / Susanne Jonas -- Women, Households, and Transnational Migration Networks: The Garifuna and Global Economic Restructuring / Linda Miller Matthei and David A. Smith -- Transnational Communities: Their Emergence and Significance in the Contemporary World System / Alejandro Portes -- Revolutionary Terrorism in the Periphery: A Comparative Analysis of the Shining Path and the Khmer Rouge / Bruce M. Podobnik -- Global Restructuring and the Environment in Latin America / J. Timmons Roberts -- Disorderly Democracy: Redefining Public Security in Latin America / A. Douglas Kincaid and Eduardo A. Gamarra -- Rebuilding State Capacity in Contemporary Latin America: The Politics of Taxation in Argentina and Mexico / Sergio Berensztein -- Economic Dynamism and Institutional Rigidity in Chile: Risks and Opportunities at the Turn of the Twentieth Century / Alvaro Díaz.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
