Book review: Political struggles and the forging of autonomous government agencies

"Political Struggles and the Forging of Autonomous Government Agencies." Cristopher Ballinas Valdés. Palgrave Macmillan. June 2013. --- The central argument of Political Struggles and the Forging of Autonomous Government Agencies is that the level of autonomy of government agencies is the outcome of struggles between opposing coalitions. Cristopher Ballinas Valdes aims to show how political struggles between politicians and bureaucrats often generate a muddle of agencies that lack coherence and are subject to different and conflicting levels of political control. A must-read for academics and reformers interested in Mexican economic institutions, writes Julián Daniel López-Murcia.