ABSTRACT
This chapter offers an analysis of educational decentralization in Latin America during the 1990s, focusing on the cases of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico. I explore the characteristics of decentralization policies and their relationship with neoliberalism in the four countries. The objective of this chapter is not to arrive at a “correct” interpretation of the relationships between the two phenomena (neoliberalism and decentralization), but rather to explore different views and the complexity of the topic.
