"A most useful book that raises many important questions and will be an essential work of reference for researchers investigating contemporary socio-political change in the Latin American countryside."--'Development and Change'
Merilee S. Grindle is a research associate at the Harvard Institute for International Development. She is the author of Bureaucrats, Politicians, and Peasants in Mexico: A Case Study in Public Policy and the editor of Politics and Policy Implementation in the Third World.
