<p>âThis book is a disciplined, paired comparison of the eight Latin American countries with the longest history of urban commercial and industrial developmentâBrazil and Chile, Mexico and Venezuela, Uruguay and Colombia, Argentina and Peru. . . . Overall, a path-breaking volume.â â<i>Foreign Affairs</i></p>
<p>â⌠Colliersâ mammoth tome remains among the most significant contributions to the field of comparative political science ⌠[It] is an indispensable point of reference both for students of comparative politics in twentieth-century Latin America and for comparativists interested in state-society relations in late industrializing societies throughout the world. <em>Shaping the Political Arena</em> is destined to remain among the classic works of Latin Americanist scholarship that contribute to disciplinary debates that reach far beyond the region itself.â â<em>Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies</em></p>
<p>âThis is a monumental work, a tour de force. It is one of the most important books in the field of Latin American politics in several years.â â<em>American Political Science Review</em></p>
<p>âTo paraphrase the bookâs title, this masterful work deserves to shape the intellectual arena for social scientists and historians for years to come.â â<em>Political Science Quarterly</em></p>
<p>âThis massive, ambitious, and wide-ranging book advances our understanding of modern Latin American politics by identifying the historical moment when forces emerged and relations were crystallized in ways that shaped subsequent political life.â â<em>The Review of Politics</em></p>
<p>âMassive in scope, ambitious in its conceptual reach, and encyclopedic in detail, <em>Shaping the Political Arena</em> is destined to stand as a landmark in the literature for years to come.â â<em>Studies in Comparative International Development</em></p>
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Biographical note
Ruth Berins Collier is professor of political science at the University of California, Berkeley.
David Collier is professor of political science at the University of California, Berkeley.