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2. See Mahmoud Mohieddin and Saher Nasr, “On Privatization in Egypt: With Reference to the Experience of the Czech Republic and Mexico,” in Privatization in Egypt: The Debate in the Peopl’s Assembl (Cairo: Cairo University, 1996).
3. Maria Lorena and Graciela Bensusan, “Political Transition and Labor Revitalization,” Research in the Sociology of Work 1 (2003): 229–67.
4. Ruth Berns Collier and David Collier, Shaping the Political Arena: Critical Junctures, the Labor Movement, and Regime Dynamics in Latin Americ (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1991).
5. See Gosta Esping-Anderson, The Three Worlds of Welfare Capitalis (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1991).