Market, State and Society demonstrates the crucial role of differing configurations of domestic actors, interests and institutions in mediating the effects of globalization on welfare regimes, labor politics, and popular contestation.

• A variety of theoretical and methodological perspectives shed light on the recent transformations in relations among market, state, and society in Latin American countries
• Results are based on thorough empirical research
• Challenges simplistic arguments concerning state decline and describes the more complex nature of the...