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 ...