ABSTRACT
THE TRANSITIONS EXAMINED in chapters 7 and 8 were drawn from the Southern Cone (Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay) and Brazil. In these four cases, the trajectory of political change took these countries from the breakdown of populism and import substitution through an era of bureaucratic authoritarianism, and fi nally through a transition back to an elected civilian government-a “transition to democracy,” pluralists would say. Mexico and Venezuela both avoided military rule, though each also experienced tensions and problems toward the end of the populist era. Both countries did, however, experience a signifi cant change of regime, mainly in regard to the political party system and relationship between the state and the market.
