Download or read book Informal Coalitions and Policymaking in Latin America written by Andrés Mejía Acosta and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2009-09-11 with total page 193 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book examines how presidents achieve market-oriented reforms in a contentious political environment, offering a systematic way of thinking about how informal institutions interact with formal ones to affect policy behavior by both a president and legislator.