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Copyright of Psicoperspectivas is the property of Pontificia Universidad Catolica de Valparaiso, Escuela de Psicologia and its content may not be copied or emailed to multiple sites or posted to a listserv without the copyright holder's express written permission. However, users may print, download, or email articles for individual use. This abstract may be abridged. No warranty is given about the accuracy of the copy. Users should refer to the original published version of the material for the full abstract. (Copyright applies to all Abstracts.)

This study approaches how the so-called "citizen revolution" process, which appears as a third route facing the classic conflict between neoliberalism and popular sectors in resistance, has established a political consensus among emerging capital sectors and a variety of popular sectors, ranging from the lower middle class to the sub-proletariat. The populist dialectic of President Rafael Correa combines with a discourse of technical progress, competence and professionalization based on a "supposed" modern capitalism that gives form to the new post-neoliberal order implemented in Ecuador. It immerses society in imaginaries of progressive change. The principal beneficiaries of this process are the large economic groups of the country at the same time that an aggressive strategy of criminalization is developed for all social protest carried out in the sphere of transforming social and leftist movements. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the presence of positive transaction costs, institutions and the architecture of organizations take on fundamental importance. This paper measures costs of opening firms in the Brazilian garment industry. The measure of costs to start up a new business in the garment industry in Brazil shows a large variation between regions in the same city and between different areas of the country. Nine different procedures were found along with a time span of 64 days and an average cost of 11,3% of the GDP per capita. Also 39% of the firms declared that they operated informally for some time. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]