TY - BOOK AU - Kalai, Ehud ed. AU - Jacobs, Donald P ed. AU - Kamien , Morton I ed. TI - Frontiers of research in economic theory: The Nancy L. Schwartz memorial lectures 1983-1997 SN - 9780521635387 U1 - 330 PY - 1998/// CY - New York : PB - Cambridge University Press KW - economic theory KW - Economic survival N1 - Introduction / Kurt von Mettenheim and James Malloy -- 1. Battling for the Voter: Elections, Parties and Democracy in Mexico / Roderic Camp -- 2. Deepening Democracy with Dominant Parties and Presidentialism: The Venezuelan Regime in a Period of Turbulence / Enrique A. Baloyra -- 3. Partisan Decline and Presidential Popularity: The Politics and Economics of Representation in Peru / Julio F. Carrion -- 4. Facing the Twenty-First Century: Bolivia in the 1990s / Eduardo A. Gamarra -- 5. Chilean Democracy Before and After Pinochet / Sylvia Borzutzky -- 6. The Symbolic Value of Economists in the Democratization of Chilean Politics / Veronica Montecinos -- 7. Direct Appeals, Political Machines, and Reform: Deepening Democracy in Brazil, 1985-1995 / Kurt von Mettenheim -- 8. Between Restructuring and Impasse: Liberal Democracy, Exclusionary Policy Making, and Neoliberal Programs in Argentina and Uruguay / Aldo C. Vacs -- Conclusion / Kurt von Mettenheim and James Malloy ER -