Coalitions and compliance : the political economy of pharmaceutical patents in Latin America / Kenneth C. Shadlen.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Shadlen, Kenneth C., author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Pharmaceutical industry--Latin America.

Pharmaceutical industry.

Patents--Latin America.

Patents.

Patents--Marketing--Law and legislation.

Patents--Marketing.

Latin America.

Physical Description:

xi, 296 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Edition:

First Edition.

Other Title:

Political economy of pharmaceutical patents in Latin America

Place of Publication:

Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2017.

Contents:

Part I Context, Theory, Explanatory Framework

1 Global Change, Political Coalitions, and National Responses 3

2 The Political Economy of Pharmaceutical Patents 28

Part II Introducting Pharmaceutical Patents

3 Power to the Producers: Industrial Legacies, Coalitional Expansion, and Minimalist Compliance in Argentina 63

4 Not If but How: NAFTA and Extreme Over-Compliance in Mexico 88

5 Coalitional Clash, Export Mobilization, and Executive Agency: From Reluctant Acquiescence to Enthusiastic Over-Compliance in Brazil 110

Part III Modifying New Pharmaceutical Patent Systems

6 The Defensive Coalition on the Offensive: National Industry and Argentina's Market-Preserving Patent System 141

7 What's Good for Us is Good for You: The Transnational Pharmaceutical Sector and Mexico's Internationalist Patent System 168

8 Patent Policy in the Shadows of Over-Compliance: Neo-Developmentalism in Brazil 193

Part IV Conclusion

9 Patents and Development in the New Global Economy 227.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 249-288)and index.

ISBN:

9780199593903

0199593906

OCLC:

1002853796