This book provides a comprehensive analysis of the crisis of relations between state and society in five Andean countries from the 1980s to the present.

Paul W. Drake is Distinguished Professor of Political Science and dean of the Division of Social Sciences at University of California, San Diego. A past president of the Latin American Studies Association, he is also is the coeditor of numerous books, including The Origins of Liberty, El APRA, de la ideologia a la praxis, and The Struggle for Democracy in Chile.