Cover -- Half-title -- Series-title -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Acronyms -- PART I The Framework and Comparative Analysis -- 1 Rethinking the Consequences of Neoliberalism -- Beyond Neoliberalism: How Far Do Existing Studies Go? -- The Politics of Reregulation: A Framework -- Reregulation Projects: A Politician-Centered Perspective -- Institutional Outcomes: An Interactive Perspective -- A Subnational Comparative Method -- Looking Ahead -- Chapter 2 From Deregulation to Reregulation in the Mexican Coffee Sector -- Reregulating Coffee -- Regime Institutions: Federalism and Upward Accountability -- Societal Forces: Coffee and Power -- Policy Repertoires: Populists and Neoliberals -- Negotiating the Terms of Reregulation -- Participatory Policy Frameworks: Oaxaca and Chiapas -- Exclusionary Policy Frameworks: Guerrero and Puebla -- Conclusion -- PART II The Cases -- 3 Remaking Corporatism from Below: A Participatory Policy Framework in Oaxaca -- Political Context of Reregulation: The Populist Regime in Oaxaca -- Leadership and Ideology -- Financing Peripheral Populism -- Managing Partisan Opposition: A Penchant for Negotiation -- Internal Bases of Power -- Reregulation Project and Producer Response: Neocorporatism from Above, Engaged Productivism from Below -- Organizational Pillars: Independent Regional Producer Organizations -- Scaling Up: Birth of a Statewide Coordinating Network (CEPCO) -- The Electoral Conjuncture That Wasn't: CEPCO's Nonpartisan Strategy -- Designing an Institution: Formation of the State Coffee Council -- Institutional Outcome: A Participatory Policy Framework -- Provision of Collective Goods -- Joint Ventures between Government and Producers -- Conclusion: Participatory Policy Frameworks from Neocorporatism.

4 When Corporatism and Democracy Collide: An Exclusionary Policy Framework in Guerrero -- Prelude to Reregulation: The Populist Regime in Guerrero -- A Presidential Mission: Restoring Political Stability -- Political Opening in the Countryside -- Political Context of Reregulation: From Populism to "Modernization" -- Leadership and Ideology -- The Regime's Weak Base of Power -- Neocorporatist Reregulation in the Context of a Modernizing Regime -- Producer Response: Partisanship Prevails -- Local Elections of 1989 -- Polarization in Guerrero: Was It the Producers' Fault? -- Institutional Outcome: An Exclusionary Policy Framework -- Conclusion: Tensions between Neocorporatism and Democracy -- 5 Peasants against Oligarchs: Stalemate and Transition to a Participatory Policy Framework in Chiapas -- Political Context of Reregulation: The Modernizing Regime in Chiapas -- Leadership and Ideology -- "Maize, the Crop of Failure": Modernizing the Countryside -- Reregulation Project and Producer Response: Crony Capitalism from Above, Disengaged Productivism from Below -- Cozying up to the Oligarchy: The Special Subcommittee for Coffee Production and Marketing -- An Alternative Project from Below: The Social Enterprise Council -- From Stalemate to Exclusion: The State Coffee Council of Chiapas -- The Coffee Council as a Political Weapon -- Scaling Down: Productivism Retreats to the Grassroots -- Dinosaurs versus Reformers -- Institutional Outcome: A Participatory Policy Framework -- Conclusion: Crony Capitalism and Participatory Policy Frameworks -- 6 Oligarchs as the Dominant Force: An Exclusionary Policy Framework in Puebla -- Political Context of Reregulation: The Regime in Puebla -- The First Round of Crony Capitalism: The Coffee Council of the State of Puebla -- A Weak Producer Movement: Disorganization at the Grassroots.

Structural Barriers to Collective Action: A Powerful Oligarchy and Weak Penetration by INMECAFE -- Strategic Barriers to Collective Action: Dilemmas of a Full-Service Campesino Organization -- A New Political Context: The Transition to a Modernizing Regime -- From Crony Capitalism to Neofederalism -- Debt Relief for Oligarchs: The Second Round of Crony Capitalism -- Neofederalism and the Perils of Political Decentralization -- "Federalizing" Agricultural Policy: The Rural Development Council -- Subnational Rogues and Grassroots Defectors: The Battle over the Federal Financial Assistance Program -- Conclusion: Political Decentralization and the Resurgence of Oligarchs -- PART III Conclusion -- 7 After Neoliberalism: What Next? -- Post-Neoliberal Pathways: Lessons from Mexico -- Making Corporatism Work: Institutional Innovation along Corporatist Lines -- Protecting Elite Interests: New Forms of Oligarchic Control -- Toward a Comparative Political Economy of Post-Neoliberalism -- What Are the Effects of Federalism? -- Does the Structure of Political Competition Matter? -- Does Reregulation Work Differently in Advanced Industrial Countries? -- What Role Do Sectors Play? -- Coda -- References -- Index.