"A collection of essays dealing with various aspects of democracy, public policy(ies), and State-civil societal relations. Of particular note are former General Secretary of the Presidency Eduardo Boeninger's discussion of governability, the theoretical reflections of sociologists Raúl Urzua and Manuel Antonio Garretón, and Tomassini's own insistence on the need to adapt State functions and procedures to changes taking place in the economy and civil society"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.