Recently added articles from Latin American Politics and Society:
Toward a Critique of Latin American Neostructuralism
Dec 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT This article offers a critical assessment of the first postneoliberalism development framework that emerged in Latin America after 1990. The ability of neostructuralism to present an attractive narrative about a twenty-first-century "modernity with solidarity" is based on ...
Candidate Recruitment and Selection in Latin America: A Framework for Analysis
Dec 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT This article provides a theoretical framework for analyzing the recruitment and selection of legislative candidates in Latin America. It argues that political recruitment and candidate selection are undertheorized for Latin America yet have determinative impacts on political ...
Policymaking by Referendum in Presidential Systems: Evidence from the Bolivian and Colombian Cases
Dec 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT Government-initiated referendums (GIRs) have so far been neglected by the debate on the effects of institutions on policymaking in presidential systems. The literature on Latin American politics has focused on isolated cases of GIRs, which are largely interpreted as ...
Indigenous Rights, Resistance, and the Law: Lessons from a Guatemalan Mine
Dec 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT Using a case study of a controversial mine in an indigenous area of Guatemala, this article explores the transnational dynamics of development and regulation of large-scale extractive industry projects in the developing world. It examines the roles played in the Marlin mine ...
Causes and Consequences of Political Clientelism: Mexico's PRD in Comparative Perspective
Dec 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT PRD politicians and officials widely use clientelism to structure their relationships with citizens. This is due not only to the entrenchment of clientelism in Mexican politics or to high rates of poverty and inequality, but also to the limited institutionalization of democratic ...
Suspicious Minds: Recent Books on U.S.-Latin American Relations
Dec 01, 2008; ... Suspicious Minds: Recent Books on U.S.-Latin American Relations Eva Golinger, The Chávez Code: Cracking U.S. Intervention in Venezuela. Northampton: Olive Branch Press, 2006. Appendix, notes, glossary, 256 pp.; paperback $17.95. Greg Grandin, Empire's Workshop: Latin America, the United ...
Politicians and Politics in Latin America
Dec 01, 2008; ... Manuel Alcántara Sáez, ed., Politicians and Politics in Latin America. Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 2008. Tables, figures, notes, appendix, bibliography, index, 323 pp.; hardcover $65. As many observers have remarked in recent times, the study of Latin American politics has moved beyond ...
Development, Democracy, and Welfare States: Latin America, East Asia, and Eastern Europe
Dec 01, 2008; ... Stephan Haggard and Robert R. Kaufman, Development, Democracy, and Welfare States: Latin America, East Asia, and Eastern Europe. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2008. Tables, figures, abbreviations, bibliography, index, 502 pp.; hardcover $80, paperback $29-95. Although the ...
Regimes and Democracy in Latin America: Theories and Methods
Dec 01, 2008; ... Gerardo L. Munck, ed., Regimes and Democracy in Latin America: Theories and Methods. New York: Oxford University Press, 2007. Figures, tables, references, index, 304 pp.; hardcover $110, paperback $45. This volume is much more about democracy and methods than about Latin America and ...
The AIDS Pandemic in Latin America
Dec 01, 2008; ... Shawn Smallman, The AIDS Pandemic in Latin America. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2007. Photographs, maps, bibliography, index, 290 pp.; hardcover $59.95, paperback $22.50. The global HIV/AIDS pandemic serves as a dual symbol of the "new" internationalization of ...
The Changing Dynamic of Cuban Civil Society
Dec 01, 2008; ... Alexander I. Gray and Antoni Kapcia, eds., The Changing Dynamic of Cuban Civil Society. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2008. Cuban Civil Society. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2008. Figures, tables, abbreviations, notes, bibliography, index, 202 pp.; hardcover ...
Rights in Rebellion: Indigenous Struggle and Human Rights in Chiapas
Dec 01, 2008; ... Shannon Speed, Rights in Rebellion: Indigenous Struggle and Human Rights in Chiapas. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2008. Figures, maps, acronyms, abbreviations, bibliography, index, 244 pp.; hardcover $55, paperback $21.95. In this book, Shannon Speed makes several interrelated ...
Latin America's Neocaudillismo: Ex-Presidents and Newcomers Running for President . . . and Winning
Oct 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT Latin Americans have been voting for a surprisingly large number of ex-presidents and newcomers in presidential elections since the late 1980s. This article looks at both the demand and supply sides of this phenomenon by focusing on economic anxieties and party crises as the key ...
The Repoliticization of Collective Action After Neoliberalism in Peru
Oct 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT Examining the popular uprising against the privatization of electric service in Arequipa and other revolts against foreign direct investment in Peru, this article explores the changing basis of antigovernment mobilizations against economic liberalization. It suggests that the ...
The New Research on Civil Wars: Does It Help Us Understand the Colombian Conflict?
Oct 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT The article synthesizes contributions from the recent comparative research on civil war and the case-specific literature on Colombia to argue that too often, commentators on this conflict overlook some of its key dimensions. A comprehensive analysis shows that no fewer than six ...
Education Funding in a Recentralizing Democracy: A Cautionary Tale of Four Brazilian Cities
Oct 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT The administration of President Fernando Henrique Cardoso enacted measures to constrain subnational politicians in a newly democratized and highly decentralized federal system. Lacking sufficient accountability at the subnational level, the central government attempted to ...
Aquí en el Ghetto: Hip-hop in Colombia, Cuba, and Mexico
Oct 01, 2008; ... ABSTRACT Hip-hop music has become an important tool worldwide for poor, marginalized youth to reflect on their lived experiences. This article traces the genre's production from its spontaneous origins in the urban ghettos of New York to its commoditization for global consumption and its ...
Latin American Independence and the Double Dilemma
Oct 01, 2008; ... Latin American Independence and the Double Dilemma Jeremy Adelman, Sovereignty and Revolution in the Iberian Atlantic. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2006. Photographs, table, notes, index, 422 pp.; hardcover $39.95. John Charles Chasteen and Sara Castro-Klaren, eds., Beyond ...
Presidentialism, Parliamentarism, and Democracy/Presidential Impeachment and the New Political Instability in Latin America
Oct 01, 2008; ... José Antonio Cheibub, Presidentialism, Parliamentarism, and Democracy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Figures, tables, appendix, bibliography, index, 202 pp.; hardcover $84, paperback $25.99. Aníbal Pérez-Liñán, Presidential Impeachment and the New Political Instability in ...
Promoting Democracy in the Americas
Oct 01, 2008; ... Thomas Legier, Sharon F. Lean, and Dexter S. Boniface, eds., Promoting Democracy in the Americas. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007. Tables, appendixes, notes, bibliography, index, 338 pp.; hardcover $60, paperback $24.95. Promoting Democracy in the Americas helps fill the ...