Routledge Handbook of Latin American Politics 9780415875226, 9780203860267, 9780415875233, 0415875234

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Routledge Handbook of Latin American Politics
 9780415875226, 9780203860267, 9780415875233, 0415875234

Table of 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.

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