Recently added articles from Latin American Politics and Society:

Can Civil Society Organizations Solve the Crisis of Partisan Representation in Latin America?

Jul 01, 2008; Hochstetler, Kathryn; Friedman, Elisabeth Jay ... ABSTRACT This article takes up the question of whether civil society organizations (CSOs) can and do act as mechanisms of representation in times of party crisis. It looks at recent representation practices in Argentina, Bolivia, and Brazil, three countries where political parties have ...

Meeting the Challenges of Industrial Restructuring: Labor Reform and Enforcement in Latin America

Jul 01, 2008; Anner, Mark ... ABSTRACT Despite a strengthening of collective labor rights in Latin America over the last 15 years, most labor movements in the region have lost power because neither the content nor the enforcement mechanisms associated with the labor reforms fully took into consideration the ...

Welfare Regimes in Latin America: Capturing Constellations of Markets, Families, and Policies

Jul 01, 2008; Franzoni, Juliana Martínez ... ABSTRACT This article presents both a theoretical framework and a methodology that attempt to capture the complex interactions among labor markets, families, and public policy that currently constitute Latin American welfare regimes. Drawing on cluster analysis based on available data ...

Friends in High Places: Congressional Influence on the Bureaucracy in Chile

Jul 01, 2008; Ferraro, Agustín ... ABSTRACT Chile presents a paradox for legislative studies. In most comparative research on the political power of presidents and assemblies in Latin America, the Chilean presidency is considered one of the most powerful in the region. The country's congress is seen, accordingly, as weak ...

Executive-Legislative Deadlocks in the Dominican Republic

Jul 01, 2008; Marsteintredet, Leiv ... ABSTRACT This study analyzes the causes of executive-legislative deadlocks in the Dominican Republic in the period 1978-2005. Deadlocks are considered a pernicious element in (presidential) democracies. The study applies a combination of simple statistical techniques and process tracing ...

Advancing the Study of Decentralization and Federalism in Latin America

Jul 01, 2008; Mitchell, Christopher ... Advancing the Study of Decentralization and Federalism in Latin America Bardhan, Pranab, and Dilip Mookherjee, eds. Decentralization and Local Governance in Developing Countries: A Comparative Perspective. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2006. Tables, figures, bibliography, index, 363 pp.; ...

Women in Postrevolutionary Mexico: The Emergence of a New Feminist Political History

Jul 01, 2008; French, John D ... Women in Postrevolutionary Mexico: The Emergence of a New Feminist Political History John D. French Olcott, Jocelyn. Revolutionary Women in Postrevolutionary Mexico. Durham: Duke University Press, 2005. Photographs, maps, tables, bibliography, index, 361 pp.; hardcover $84.95, ...

Beyond Survival: Protecting Households from Health Shocks in Latin America

Jul 01, 2008; Kubal, Mary Rose ... Cristian C. Baeza and Truman G. Packard, Beyond Survival: Protecting Households from Health Shocks in Latin America. Washington, DC/Stanford: World Bank/Stanford University Press, 2006. Figures, tables, glossary, executive summary, bibliography, index, 170 pp.; paperback $35. The stated ...

Comunidad sudamericana: logros y desafíos de la integración

Jul 01, 2008; Rivera, Salvador ... Eduardo Duhalde, Comunidad sudamericana: logros y desafíos de la integración. Buenos Aires: Planeta, 2006. Photographs, tables, maps, figures, documents, 314 pp.; paperback. For 180 years, efforts to unify Latin America (unionism) were the concern of diplomats and idealists. Political ...

Enforcing the Rule of Law: Social Accountability in the New Latin American Democracies

Jul 01, 2008; Ackerman, John M ... Enrique Peruzzotti and Catalina Smulovitz, eds., Enforcing the Rule of Law: Social Accountability in the New Latin American Democracies. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2006. Tables, figures, abbreviations, bibliography, index, 376 pp.; paperback $29.95. Latin America's new ...

Private Education and Public Policy in Latin America

Jul 01, 2008; Sands, Joseph C Jr ... Laurence Wolff, Juan Carlos Navarro, and Pablo Gonzalez, eds., Private Education and Public Policy in Latin America. Washington, DC: Partnership for Educational Revitalization in the Americas (PREAL). 2005. English and Spanish versions. Tables, figures, 251 pp. Available online, ...

Salt in the Sand: Memory, Violence, and the Nation-State in Chile, 1890 to the Present/The Pinochet Regime

Jul 01, 2008; Hite, Katherine ... Lessie Jo Frazier, Salt in the Sand: Memory, Violence, and the Nation-State in Chile, 1890 to the Present. Durham: Duke University Press, 2007. Photographs, maps, figures, bibliography, index, 388 pp.; hardcover $84.95, paper $23.95. Carlos Huneeus, The Pinochet Regime. Translated by ...

Sleeping Rough in Port-au-Prince: An Ethnography of Street Children and Violence in Haiti

Jul 01, 2008; Girard, Philippe R ... J. Christopher Kovats-Bernat, Sleeping Rough in Port-au-Prince: An Ethnography of Street Children and Violence in Haiti. Gainesville: University of Florida Press, 2006. Maps, photos, tables, notes, bibliography, index, 249 pp; hardcover $59.95. This book addresses a topic, street ...

Surviving Mexico's Dirty War: A Political Prisoner's Memoir

Jul 01, 2008; Power, Margaret ... Alberto Ulloa Bornemann, Surviving Mexico's Dirty War: A Political Prisoner's Memoir. Edited and translated by Arthur Schmidt and Aurora Camacho de Schmidt. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2007. Photographs, bibliography, index, 217 pp.; hardcover $74.50; paperback $26.95. In 2004 ...

So Far from Allah, So Close to Mexico: Middle Eastern Immigrants in Modern Mexico/Another Arabesque: Syrian-Lebanese Ethnicity in Neoliberal Brazil

Jul 01, 2008; Zeraoui, Zidane ... Teresa AlfaroVelcamp, So Far from Allah, So Close to Mexico: Middle Eastern Immigrants in Modern Mexico. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2007. Maps, appendixes, bibliography, index, 272 pp.; paperback $24.95. John Tofik Karam, Another Arabesque: Syrian-Lebanese Ethnicity in Neoliberal ...

Shining Path: Guerrilla War in Peru's Northern Highlands, 1980-1997

Jul 01, 2008; Dosh, Paul; Virnig, Annie Stilger ... Lewis Taylor, Shining Path: Guerrilla War in Peru's Northern Highlands, 1980-1997. Liverpool: Liverpool University Press, 2006. Tables, figures, maps, bibliography, index, 232 pp.; hardcover $85, paperback $32.50. In the 1980s and early 1990s, an estimated 70,000 Peruvians died in the ...