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Author Dezalay, Yves, 1945-

Title The internationalization of palace wars : lawyers, economists, and the contest to transform Latin American states / Yves Dezalay, Bryant G. Garth.

Publication Info. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2002.

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 331 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series The Chicago series in law and society
Chicago series in law and society.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 301-316) and index.
Contents Retooling statesmen to restructure the state: from Héritiers of European legal culture to the technopols made in the USA -- The internationalization of palace wars -- The archeology of the new universals: the Cold War construction of human rights and its later avatars -- The Chicago boys as outsiders: constructing and exporting counterrevolution -- Fostering pluralism and reformism -- The paradox of symbolic imperialism: the southern cone as an explosive laboratory of modernity -- The reformist establishment out of power: investing in human rights as an alternative political strategy -- From confrontation to concertación: the national production and international recognition of the new universals -- Fragmented governance: a Washington agenda for reshaping global institutions and national expertises -- Top-down participatory development: putting a human face on market hegemony and trying to stem the social violence of globalization -- Lawyer compradors as opportunistic institution builders -- Reformist strategies around the courts -- The logic of half-failed transplants.
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Subject Latin America -- Foreign relations -- United States.
Latin America.
International relations.
United States.
United States -- Foreign relations -- Latin America.
Latin America -- Politics and government -- 1948-1980.
Politics and government.
Chronological Term 1948-1980
Subject Latin America -- Politics and government -- 1980-
Chronological Term 1980-
Subject Globalization.
Globalization.
Latin America -- Economic policy.
Economic policy.
Expertise -- Political aspects -- Latin America.
Expertise -- Political aspects.
Expertise.
Law reform -- Latin America.
Law reform.
Law and economic development.
Law and economic development.
Chronological Term Since 1948
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Garth, Bryant G.
Other Form: Print version: Dezalay, Yves, 1945- Internationalization of palace wars. Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2002 9780226144269 (DLC) 2001053003 (OCoLC)47797673
ISBN 9780226144276 (electronic book)
0226144275 (electronic book)
9780226144252 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0226144259 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
9780226144269
0226144259 (cloth ; alkaline paper)
0226144267 (paperback ; alkaline paper)