Murillo Maria Victoria. Political Competition, Partisanship, and Policy Making in Latin American Public Utilities

Cambridge University Press, 2009. — 312 p.“This is a splendid, shrewd book on the political economy of policy reform and policy making in Latin America. Focusing on the regulation of two key economic sectors, telecommunications and electricity, Murillo shows that, even at the height of the liberalization and privatization waves of the last decades, electoral competition and the partisan composition of governments crucially mattered to explain how politics and distributional considerations shape the economy. This is a very welcome rebuttal of the convergence and globalization literatures and a must-read book for any political economist.”
-Carles Boix, Princeton University