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The author discusses significant steps in the Austrian Green Party politics including internal changes & its success in the 1999 European & parliamentary elections. The Austrian Green Party has experienced a successful recovery from its 1995 losses through obtaining good leadership & becoming more professional. The election of Alexander Van der Bellen as party speaker was perceived as a reaffirmation in the party's ideological authority. The party has gained voters by going beyond environmental politics to take stands on neutrality, membership in the European Union (EU), the Proportz system, & asylum/immigration. The author examines the results of recent elections, the party's position in current Austrian politics & concludes that the Austrian Greens offer an ecological & democratic alternative to the Social Democratic Party & People's Party domination & to the isolationist policies of the Freedom Party. 2 Tables, 5 References. L. A. Hoffman

Market Reforms in Mexico examines Mexico's reform experience in privatization, deregulation, and environmental policy. More than simply a book on 'Mexican politics,' this study speaks to the broader political dynamics behind the success or failure to implement reforms; first, by assessing new policy initiatives in multiple arenas across presidential administrations in Mexico, then by comparing Mexico's privatization experience to that of Argentina's. Through structured, focused comparison of select case studies, the author argues that the fate of dramatic reform initiatives turned on coalition politics (both inside and outside the state), and explains how institutional dynamics and the capacity to solve the problem of policy 'costs' strongly affected reformers' prospects of success.

Three books are reviewed: 1. Challenging the State: Crisis and Innovation in Latin America and Africa, by Merilee S. Grindle, 2. Democracy Within Reason: Technocratic Revolution in Mexico, by Miguel Angel Centeno, and 3. Privatization and Political Change in Mexico, by Judith A. Teichman.