Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs back issues from July 1998:
Evolution of the party system in Venezuela, 1946-1993
Jul 01, 1998; ... The 1946 election for Venezuela's National Constituent Assembly marked the beginning of democratic electoral processes and the modern party system in that country. Although interrupted by ten years of dictatorship (1948-1958), nine national elections for president and parliament have been held ...
Democratizing the democracy? Crisis and reform in Venezuela
Jul 01, 1998; ... Venezuelan politics presents a puzzle to students of Latin America, and to anyone concerned with the comparative analysis of democratization and democracy. As the major countries of Latin America (and the majority of scholars) worked their way from authoritarianism through "transitions" to ...
Entrepreneurship, microenterprise, and public policy in Cuba: Promotion, containment, or asphyxiation?
Jul 01, 1998; ... And thus it was with many things that I'm not going to repeat: commerce, market-determined prices in certain sectors, for certain activities; a proliferation of self-employment .... And these are the opinions we have had about these things over the years, never imagining that we would ...
Response to Jorge Dominguez
Jul 01, 1998; ... It is a bold adversary indeed who chooses to cross swords with so accomplished a scholar of Cuba as Jorge I. Dominguez. No one who has studied the island can fail to remain in his debt for the industry, lucidity, and historical imagination that he brings to all his work. And although his ...
Labor and capital in Latin America's changing social landscape
Jul 01, 1998; ... Cook, Maria Lorena. Organizing Dissent: Unions, the State, and the Democratic Teachers ' Movement in Mexico. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 1996. Illustrations, tables, figures, acronyms, appendixes, bibliography, index, xvi, 359 pages; hardcover $55, paperback $19.95 ....
Assessing the third wave democracies
Jul 01, 1998; ... Beginning with the liberalization of authoritarian rule in Portugal in 1974 and extending into the 1990s, dozens of countries around the world have completed transitions to democracy. The four books reviewed here represent the state of the art in a significant body of work that assesses how ...
Checkerboards and Shatterbelts: The Geopolitics of South America
Jul 01, 1998; ... Kelly, Philip. Checkerboards and Shatterbelts: The Geopolitics of South America. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1997. Maps, tables, bibliography, index, 256 pages; hardcover $40, softcover $7.95. The long, recently abandoned period of armed forces rule in South America, especially ...
Love in a Time of Hate: Liberation Psychology in Latin America
Jul 01, 1998; ... Hollander, Nancy Caro. Love in a Time of Hate: Liberation Psychology in Latin America. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1997. Notes, index, 270 pages; hardcover $50, paperback $21.95. Nancy Caro Hollander opens this, her first book, with a daunting challenge for both author and ...
The Catholic Church and Democracy in Chile and Peru.
Jul 01, 1998; ... Fleet, Michael, and Brian H. Smith. The Catholic Church and Democracy in Chile and Peru. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 1997. Tables, notes, bibliography, index, ix, 366 pages; hardcover $45. It has been 30 years since the sociologist Ivan Vallier wrote his enormously ...
Argentina, the United States, and the Anti-Communist Crusade in Central America, 1977-1984
Jul 01, 1998; ... Armony, Ariel C. Argentina, the United States, and the Anti-Communist Crusade in Central America, 1977-1984. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1977. Maps, photographs, acronyms, chronology, notes, bibliography, index, 301 pages; paperback $26. Ariel C. Armony sets several formidable tasks ...
Sustainable Settlement in the Brazilian Amazon.
Jul 01, 1998; ... Almeida, Anna Luiza Ozorio de, and Joao S. Campari. Sustainable Settlement in the Brazilian Amazon. New York: Oxford University Press, 1995. Map, tables, appendixes, acronyms, notes, bibliography, index, 189 pages; hardcover $32.95. This book offers an extensive, well-organized, ...
Democracy Without Equity: Failures of Reform in Brazil.
Jul 01, 1998; ... Weyland, Kurt. Democracy Without Equity: Failures of Reform in Brazil. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 1996. Tables, figures, appendix, notes, acronyms, bibliography, index, 293 pages; hardcover $49.95, paperback $22.95. This book asks perhaps the most important question ...
Politics of Illusion: The Bay of Pigs Invasion reexamined.
Jul 01, 1998; ... Blight, James G., and Peter Kornbluh. Politics of Illusion: The Bay of Pigs Invasion Reexamined. Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 1997. Maps, chronology, declassified documents, notes, index, 284 pages; hardcover $45. There are certain episodes in history that keep coming back, either for ...
Cuba: Restructing the Economy, A Contribution to the Debate
Jul 01, 1998; ... Carranza Valdes, Julio, Luis Gutierrez Urdaneta, and Pedro Monreal Gonzalez. Cuba: Restructuring the Economy, A Contribution to the Debate. Translated by Ruth Pearson. London: Institute of Latin American Studies, University of London, 1996. Appendixes, table, notes, bibliography, 132 pages; ...
Pleasure Island: Tourism and Temptation in Cuba.
Jul 01, 1998; ... Schwartz, Rosalie. Pleasure Island: Tourism and Temptation in Cuba. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1997. Photographs, bibliography, index, 239 pages; hardcover $45. "Illusion plays a significant role in tourism," Rosalie Schwartz observes; "therefore reading this book may be ...
Haiti Renewed: Political and Economic Prospects.
Jul 01, 1998; ... Rotberg, Robert I., ed. Haiti Renewed: Political and Economic Prospects. Washington, DC/Boston: Brookings Institution Press/World Peace Foundation, 1997. Tables, notes, index, 245 pages; hardcover $28.95. Writing about Haiti is a somewhat frustrating task. Events grind themselves into ...
Mexican Banking and Investment in Transition.
Jul 01, 1998; ... Adams, John A., Jr. Mexican Banking and Investment in Transition. Westport: Quorum Books, 1997. Map, tables, figures, appendixes, glossary, notes, bibliography, index, xix, 238 pages; hardcover $69.50. This is one of the first works to examine the evolution of Mexican banking and ...
Agarian Reform and Class Consciousness in Nicaragua
Jul 01, 1998; ... Enriquez, Laura J. Agrarian Reform and Class Consciousness in Nicaragua. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 1997. Tables, figures, maps, notes, bibliography, index, 280 pages; hardcover $49.95. Considerable scholarship has been published on Nicaragua during the 20 years since the ...
The Transition to Democracy in Paraguay.
Jul 01, 1998; ... Lambert, Peter, and Andrew Nickson, eds. The Transition to Democracy in Paraguay. New York: St. Martin's Press, 1997. Tables, notes, bibliography, index, xiv, 230 pages; hardcover $69.95. Not since the year after the February 1989 coup that brought an end to the 34-year dictatorship of ...