Description: This study offers a comprehensive and up-to-date analysis of the state and its bureaucratic components in the various nations of Latin America. Graham notes at the outset that the complexity of the state apparatus in Latin America presents both a challenge and a problem for analysts. His unique contribution here is combining an overview of public bureaucracy in Latin America with a series of country and regional profiles. With this basis for analysis established, Graham focuses on changes in the state, the society, and the economy that have occurred over the past two decades in order to develop a set of new perspectives on Latin American politics and economics.

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