Business Groups and Politics in Latin America

Abstract

The relationship, tensions, influences, and conflicts between business groups, institutions, and political representatives have been argucably at the core of many democratic crises, in Latin America and elsewhere. How independent are elected representatives from business interests and groups? Can they implement their own agendas or are there subject to the wishes of the business groups? What strategies do business groups use to influence politics? How has the economic and political context shape these strategies and the relation between these two key actors? And what explains why some economic policies have become depoliticized, giving way to certain tools being implemented and not others?

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