Globalization and Public Policy in the Americas: Are We Heading Toward Convergence?

  • Diane E. Johnson
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Abstract

In the late 1990s, Jeffrey Stark argued that “an indispensable area of research is the systematic study of how individual Latin American democracies respond and adapt to globalization” (1998, 88). In this chapter, I contend that one of the clearest expressions of the state’s response to globalization is in its formation of public policy.1

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Foreign Investment Radio Station Private Ownership Foreign Ownership Television Station 
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