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Ben Ross Schneider. Business Politics and the State in Twentieth-Century Latin America. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2004. xix + 312 pp. ISBN 0-521-83651-4, $70.00 (cloth); 0-521-54500-5, $26.99 (paper).
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This volume is a valuable addition to the extensive and disparate bibliography on business associations, state-business relations, collective action, corporatism, and civil society. One of its major achievements is that it will help to redirect research on these topics. The book encompasses a wide field of scholarly work hitherto undertaken in a variety of disciplines: political science, economics, sociology of organizations, and economic and business history. In terms of business history, Schneiders book is an important contribution to the study of
Universidad de los Andes, Bogotá, Colombia