Book Review : Assessing Colombia's Political System

Agence France Presse 1999 "One-day Colombian strike shuts down schools, oil production." February 25.

Amnesty International 1994 Political Violence in Colombia: Myth and Reality. New York.

Child, Jorge 1993 Fin de estado. Bogotá: Grijalbo.

Giraldo, Javier 1996 Colombia: The Genocidal Democracy. Monroe, Maine: Common Courage Press.

Gonzalez, Juan M. 1998 "The elusiveness of poverty in Colombia." Paper presented at the Latin American Studies Association, Chicago, IL, September 24-26.

Hartlyn, Jonathan 1988 The Politics of Coalition Rule in Colombia. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.

Leal Buitrago, Francisco 1989 "El sistema politico del clientelismo." Análisis Político 8 (September-December): 8-32.

Leal Buitrago, Francisco and Leon Zamosc (eds.) 1990 Al filo del caos. Bogotá: Tercer Mundo Editores.

Martz, Jonathan 1997 The Politics of Clientelism. New Brunswick : Transaction Publishers.

Morris, Arthur and Stella Lowder (eds.) 1992 Decentralization in Latin America: An Evaluation. Westport, CT: Praeger.

Sánchez, Gonzalo 1992 "The violence: an interpretative synthesis," pp. 75-124 in Charles Bergquist, R. Peñaranda , and G. Sánchez (eds.), Violence in Colombia: The Contemporary Crisis in Historical Perspective. Wilmington, DE: Scholarly Resources.

Suárez, Carlos E. 1994 "Trade and development policies in Colombia: export promotion and outward orientation, 1967-1992," pp. 51-81 in Lowell S. Gustafson (ed.), Economic Development Under Democratic Regimes: Neoliberalism in Latin America. Westport, CT: Praeger.

Thoumi, Francisco E. 1994 Political Economy and Illegal Drugs in Colombia. Boulder: Lynne Rienner.

Urrutia, Miguel 1994 "Colombia," in The Political Economy of Policy Reform Washington, DC: Institute for International Economics .

Veltmeyer, Henry , James Petras , and Steve Vieux 1997 Neoliberalism and Class Conflict in Latin America: A Comparative Perspective on the Political Economy of Structural Adjustment. Houndmills, Basingstoke, Hampshire: Macmillan/ New York: St. Martin's Press.

Vilas, Carlos M. 1996 "Neoliberal social policy: managing poverty (somehow)." NACLA Report on the Americas 29 (May/June): 16-25.

Wilde, Alexander W. 1978 "Conversations among gentlemen: oligarchical democracy in Colombia," pp. 28-81 in Juan J. Linz and Alfred Stepan (eds.), The Breakdown of Democratic Regimes. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.

Zackrison, James and Eileen Bradley 1997 "Colombian sovereignty under siege." Strategic Forum, no. 112 (May), 1-4.