Redeploying the State

This study offers a comparative analysis of Latin American and Middle Eastern corporatism by looking at Egypt and Mexico's differing experiences with privatization and showing that how the working class was attached to the regime during the period of state-building shapes leaders institutional options and capabilities for market reform.

The Politics of Privatization State Formation, Incorporation, Political Parties PART I : HISTORICAL BACKGROUND The Founding Moment The Institutional Legacies of Incorporation PART II: MEXICO'S 'SUCCESS' Privatization and the Populist-Distributive Alliance Bureaucratic Reform and State-Business Relations PART III: EGYPT'S IMPASSE State-Labour Relations and Public Sector Reform Shifting the State from Left to Right Privatization and Exclusion