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Neoliberal Reform in Rural Mexico: Social Structural and Political Dimensions

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AGRARIAN STRUCTURE AND POLITICAL POWER IN MEXICO. By BartraRoger. (Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993. Pp. 221. $45.00 cloth, $14.95 paper.)

MEXICO'S SECOND AGRARIAN REFORM: HOUSEHOLD AND COMMUNITY RESPONSES. By JanvryAlain de, GordilloGustavo, and SadouletElisabeth. (La Jolla: Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, University of California, San Diego, 1997. Pp. 222 $16.00 paper.)

DECENTRALIZATION AND RURAL DEVELOPMENT IN MEXICO: COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION IN OAXACA'S MUNICIPAL FUNDS PROGRAM. By JonathanFox and ArandaJosefina. (La Jolla: Center for U.S.-Mexican Studies, University of California, San Diego, 1996. Pp. 74. $11.95 paper.)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 October 2022

Gerardo Otero*
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Simon Fraser University
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Copyright © 2000 by the University of Texas Press

Footnotes

Thanks are due to my colleague Marilyn Gates, who made useful comments on a previous version of this essay. I also wish to acknowledge the funding of my research by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada.

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