State Under Siege

Philip Mauceri is assistant professor of political science at the University of Northern Iowa.

• Introduction: State Power and Policy Making -- State Development and Policy Choices, 1968-1995 -- The Military and Popular Mobilization -- International Actors and the Politics of Economic Austerity -- The Failures of State Populism -- Retooling the State: The Fujimori Coalition and State Reform -- State Power and Social Control -- Villa El Salvador: Popular Organization and the State in a Lima Shantytown -- Sendero Luminoso: Ideology and the State in the Andes -- State Capacities and Counterinsurgency -- Conclusions: From State Developmentalism to Neoliberal Reforms