William C. Smith received his Ph.D. in political science from Stanford University and currently teaches at the University of Miami. He is the author of Authoritarianism and the Crisis of the Argentine Political Economy (Stanford University Press, 1991) and the editor of numerous volumes on democracy, market-oriented restructuring, and contentious politics in Latin America. His articles have been appeared in ... Read morenumerous journals, including: Studies in Comparative International Development, Revista Mexicana de Sociología, Dados, Desarrollo Econ?mico, Political Power and Social Theory, Contexto Internacional, Fuerzas Armadas y Sociedad, Nueva Sociedad, América Latina Hoy, and the Latin American Research Review. Smith is the editor of Latin American Politics and Society. Show Less