LIST OF TABLES

5.1 Homicide Rates by Country (most recent available, as of 2008) and Concern that Crime Threatens Future Wellbeing (2008)

7.1 A Typology of Informal Institutions

9.1 Lethal Violence by State Forces and Other Indicators of Political Repression, 1964–90

10.1 Moderate and Radical Lefts in Relation to the Washington Consensus and Second Generation Reforms

10.2 Explanatory Variables and Varieties of Leftist Governments in Latin America in the 2000s

11.1 New Left Political Regimes in Latin America

11.2 Determinants of Latin American Inequality 1990–2008 (as measured by the Gini coefficient, including fixed effects)

11A.1 Key Economic Indicators by Political Regime: 1988–2009 (3 year averages)

11A.2 Changes in Quintile Share by Political Regime

11A.3 Change in Quintile Shares, Random Effects Estimate

12.1 Relationship of Conceptualizations of Environment and Development to Analytic Approaches

12.2 Compatibility of Sustainable Development with Competing Conceptualizations of the Problem of Environment and Development

12.3 Environmental Politics:Actors, Interests, and Coalitions, 1980s–Present

13.1 Public Spending on Social Insurance, Social Assistance, and Education/Health, circa 2000, Sixteen Latin American Countries

22.1 Profiles for United States and Latin America: Selected Countries, 2009

22.2 U.S. Shares of Latin American Trade, 2000–2010

22.3 Soft Power Index, 2010

23.1 Currently Unresolved Interstate Disputes Within Latin America

23.2 Central America’s Institutional Context, c. 1967

30.1 Natural Experiments in the Study of Latin American Politics

30.2 Field Experiments in the Study of Latin American Politics

35.1 Number of Occupants of Office After Elections

35.2 Long-Lasting Regimes with Regular Pluralistic Elections Always Won by Incumbents

35.3 Causes of Termination of Pluralistic Non-Competitive Regimes

35.4 Partisan Alternations in Office as a Result of Elections

35.5 Proportion of Elections Lost by Incumbents, by Suffrage Qualifications

36.1 Union Density Before and After Neoliberal Reform (percent of total labor force unionized)

36.2 Salience of Material Interests, 1995–2007 (percent of years problem identified as most important in open-ended response)