Title Routledge handbook of Latin American politics / edited by Peter Kingstone and Deborah J. Yashar

Published New York : Routledge, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (xxxiv, 596 pages) : illustrations Series Routledge handbooks Routledge handbooks. Contents The origins and durability of democracy / Gerardo L. Munck -- Presidentialism and legislatures / Mark P. Jones -- Decentralization and federalism / Kent Eaton -- Parties, party systems, and political representation / Kenneth M. Roberts -- "A tale of two cities" : the judiciary and the rule of law in Latin America / Daniel M. Brinks -- The Latin American military / David Pion-Berlin -- Informal institutions and politics in Latin America / Steven Levitsky -- Accountability and representation in Latin America / Frances Hagopian -- Human rights and military abuses / Anthony W. Pereira -- Neoliberalism and its alternatives / Javier Corrales -- Declining inequality in Latin America : some economics, some politics / Nancy Birdsall, Nora Lustig, and Darryl McLeod -- Environment and sustainable development / Eduardo Silva -- Social policies in Latin America : causes, characteristics, and consequences / James W. McGuire -- The political economy of regulatory policy : economic crisis and privatization in the 1990s / Luigi Manzetti and Carlos Rufin -- Social movements in Latin America / Kathryn Hochstetler -- Understanding the vagaries of civil society and participation in Latin America / Philip Oxhorn -- Labor / Maria Lorena Cook -- Business politics in Latin America : investigating structures, preferences, and influence / Sebastian Karcher and Ben Ross Schneider -- Indigenous politics : between democracy and danger / José Antonio Lucero -- Race, politics, and Afro-Latin Americans / Ollie A. Johnson III -- Gender / Lisa Baldez -- U.S.-Latin American relations : power, politics, and cooperation / Peter H. Smith -- Intra-Latin American relations : the challenge of promoting cooperation while defending sovereignty / David R. Mares -- International economic relations/international development institutions / Grigore Pop-Eleches -- The politics of drugs and illicit trade in the Americas / Peter Andreas and Angelica Duran Martinez -- Institutionalism / Aníbal Pérez-Liñán and Néstor Castañeda Angarita -- Culture and/or postmodernism / Sujatha Fernandes -- The integration of rational choice into the study of politics in Latin America / Barbara Geddes -- The enduring influence of historical-structural approaches / Jennifer Cyr and James Mahoney -- Natural and field experiments in the study of Latin American politics / Thad Dunning -- Public opinion research in Latin America / Elizabeth J. Zechmeister and Mitchell A. Seligson -- What's next? Reflections on the future of Latin American political science / Barry Ames, Miguel Carreras, and Cassilde Schwartz -- The blessings of troubles : scholarly innovation in response to Latin America's challenges / Jorge I. Domínguez -- State of the field : political regimes and the study of democratic politics / Robert R. Kaufman -- Latin American political regimes in comparative perspective / Adam Przeworski -- Popular representation in contemporary Latin American politics : an agenda for research / Ruth Berins Collier and Christopher Chambers-Ju Summary Latin America has been one of the critical areas in the study of comparative politics. The region's experiments with installing and deepening democracy and promoting alternative modes of economic development have generated intriguing and enduring empirical puzzles. In turn, Latin America's challenges continue to spawn original and vital work on central questions in comparative politics: about the origins of democracy; about the relationship between state and society; about the nature of citizenship; about the balance between state and market Bibliography Includes bibliographical references Notes English Print version record SUBJECT Lateinamerika gnd Subject Democracy -- Latin America POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Process -- General. Social conditions Politics and government Diplomatic relations Democracy Economic history Economic policy International relations Political science Social history Social policy Politik SUBJECT Latin America -- Politics and government -- 1980- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh87000854 Latin America -- Politics and government -- 1948-1980. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85074915 Latin America -- Social conditions -- 1982- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh92005987 Latin America -- Economic conditions -- 1982- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh88005678 Latin America -- Economic policy Latin America -- Social policy Latin America -- Foreign relations -- 1980- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh93009439 Subject Latin America Genre/Form handbooks. Handbooks and manuals. Guides et manuels. Form Electronic book Author Kingstone, Peter R., 1964- editor. Yashar, Deborah J., 1963- editor. LC no. 2011043304 ISBN 9780203860267 0203860268 9781299278424 1299278426 9781135280307 1135280304 9781135280253 1135280258 1135280290 9781135280291 9780415875233 0415875234

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