ABSTRACT
Ingram and Mann (1980: 7) write: ‘A fundamental distinction in public policy analysis is the distinction between policy formation and policy implementation, or the distinction between policy causes and policy effects’. Chapter Two analysed the policy formation period (PFP); this chapter, and the two chapters that follow, examine the effects or output of Salinas’s Conasupo policy. In particular, they consider whether and to what degree the Conasupo Modemización Plan (CMP, 1990-1994) fell victim to the inertia, logic and expectations that hitherto surrounded and produced continuity at Conasupo.
