Review: "First analysis of the changes in the Confederación Nacional de Organizaciones Populares, the long-standing 'popular sector' of the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI). Brief but excellent work also provides considerable insight into the impact of the Programa Nacional de Solidaridad (PRONASOL) on the popular sector, and notes that the PRI repressed its own study which indicated that PRONASOL groups were adversely affecting its electoral fortunes"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57. http://www.loc.gov/hlas/

Corporatism is the third great ideolgy of modern social and political organization and it is one of the main organizing concepts used in comparative political analysis. This study traces corporatism in history, analyzes its modern practice and shows the rise of corporatism in the US.

Despite hopes and wishes for democracy, the political reality in Latin America today is that corporatism and authoritarianism continue to be strong. These essays argue that democracy is in deep trouble in almost all countries of the region.

This book offers a systematic and basic introduction to corporatism in the context of liberal democracies. Corporatism has been heralded as one of the most important concepts to have emerged recently in the social sciences. It has led to both theoretical or definitional work on the corporatist model, and to the application of the model to empirical studies. The literature on corporatism is extensive, diverse and complex, reflecting the wide-ranging importance of the model. In this introductory text, Peter Williamson draws together the central issues in corporatism and provides a critical guide to the theories and findings of work within the corporatist approach. Individual topics are linked to the wider concerns of representation, democracy, conflict and stability, and state and market in liberal democracies. Corporatist theory is explained and diversities of approach examined. It is contrasted with the pluralist model, and the methodological and theoretical issues of dispute between corporatists and pluralists are explored. Corporatism in Perspective is written for students in government and politics, political sociology, political economy, public policy and administration, and social policy and administration.

This illuminating new look at Franllin Roosevelt's National Recovery Administration (NRA) challenges widely accepted conclusions about that program. Tracing the intellectual origins of the NRA to pragmatism and its political origins to progressivism, Donald R. Brand argues that the NRA was an ambitious attempt to secure social justice for the organizationally disadvantaged in American society.