Routledge Handbook of Latin American Politics by Yashar, Deborah J. -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Full Title Copyright Foreword List of figures List of tables Contributors Introduction Contents PART I Democratic Governance and Political Institutions

1 The Origins and Durability of Democracy [Gerardo L. Munck] 2 Presidentialism and Legislatures [Mark P. Jones] 3 Decentralization and Federalism [Kent Eaton] 4 Parties, Party Systems, and Political Representation [Kenneth M. Roberts] 5 “A Tale of Two Cities”: The Judiciary and the Rule of Law in Latin America [Daniel M. Brinks] 6 The Latin American Military David Pion-Berlin 7 Informal Institutions and Politics in Latin America Steven Levitsky 8 Accountability and Representation in Latin America [Frances Hagopian] 9 Human Rights and Military Abuses [Anthony W. Pereira]

PART II Development

10 Neoliberalism and Its Alternatives [Javier Corrales] 11 Declining Inequality in Latin America: Some Economics, Some Politics [Nancy Birdsall, Nora Lustig, and Darryl McLeod] 12 Environment and Sustainable Development [Eduardo Silva] 13 Social Policies in Latin America: Causes, Characteristics, and Consequences [James W. McGuire] 14 The Political Economy of Regulatory Policy: Economic Crisis and Privatization in the 1990s [Luigi Manzetti and Carlos Rufin]

PART III Actors/Social Groups

15 Social Movements In Latin America [Kathryn Hochstetler] 16 Understanding the Vagaries of Civil Society and Participation in Latin America [Philip Oxhorn] 17 Labor [Maria Lorena Cook] 18 Business Politics in Latin America: Investigating Structures, Preferences, and Influence [Sebastian Karcher and Ben Ross Schneider] 19 Indigenous Politics: Between Democracy and Danger [José Antonio Lucero] 20 Race, Politics, and Afro-Latin Americans [Ollie A. Johnson III] 21 Gender [Lisa Baldez]

PART IV International Concerns

22 U.S.-Latin American Relations: Power, Politics, and Cooperation [Peter H. Smith] 23 Intra-Latin American Relations: The Challenge of Promoting Cooperation While Defending Sovereignty [David R. Mares] 24 International Economic Relations/International Development Institutions [Grigore Pop-Eleches] 25 The Politics of Drugs and Illicit Trade in the Americas [Peter Andreas and Angelica Duran Martinez]

PART V Theories/Methods

26 Institutionalism [Aníbal Pérez-Liñán and Néstor Castañeda Angarita] 27 Culture and/or Postmodernism [Sujatha Fernandes] 28 The Integration of Rational Choice into the Study of Politics in Latin America [Barbara Geddes] 29 The Enduring Influence of Historical-Structural Approaches [Jennifer Cyr and James Mahoney] 30 Natural and Field Experiments in the Study of Latin American Politics [Thad Dunning] 31 Public Opinion Research in Latin America [Elizabeth J. Zechmeister and Mitchell A. Seligson]

PART VI Critical Reflections on the State of the Field

32 What’s Next? Reflections on the Future of Latin American Political Science [Barry Ames, Miguel Carreras, and Cassilde Schwartz] 33 The Blessings of Troubles: Scholarly Innovation in Response to Latin America’s Challenges [Jorge I. Domínguez] 34 State of the Field: Political Regimes and the Study of Democratic Politics [Robert R. Kaufman] 35 Latin American Political Regimes in Comparative Perspective [Adam Przeworski] 36 Popular Representation in Contemporary Latin American Politics: An Agenda for Research [Ruth Berins Collier and Christopher Chambers-Ju]

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