A Middle-Quality Institutional Trap: Democracy and State Capacity in Latin America, Paperback - Sebastián L. Mazzuca

Latin America is currently caught in a middle-quality institutional trap, combining flawed democracies and low-to-medium capacity States. Yet, cont...

Publisher: Taylor & Francis LtdIllustration(s): 13 Line drawings, black and white; 25 Tables, black and white; 13 Illustrations, black and whiteNum...

Carlos Eduardo Martins ' essential update of the, still indispensable, Marxist Theory of Dependency.

A comprehensive analysis, "Magical Reels" charts the development of Latin American film industries in a world increasingly dominated by the advance...

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This book highlights the importance of strategy, revealing that gradual reforms produce better results than drastic overhauls imposed by political ...

Rooted in thousands of pages of Access to Information documents and dozens of interviews carried out throughout Latin America, Blood of Extraction ...

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DescriptionRevolution in the Revolution? is a brilliant, pragmatic assessment of the situation in Latin America in the 1960s. First published in 19...

This comprehensive review of US drug-control policies toward Latin America and the Caribbean, assesses the impact of those policies on democracy an...

Much has been made of the dramatic rise of Protestantism in Latin America. Overlooked by journalists and scholars has been the parallel growth of C...

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This Element expands on alternative political identifications as a result of decaying party identification to better understand different levels of...

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DescriptionWhile prior studies have shown the importance of participatory institutions in strengthening civil society and in improving policy outco...

The 21st century Latin American developmental welfare state model is based on a new public-private alliance, where state-led developmental social p...

A compelling account of a neglected but intense air campaign of the interwar period.

This text offers a unique philosophical and historical inquiry into the educational vision of Luis Emilio Recabarren, and his pivotal role in secur...

Contributor(s): Author: Benjamin LessingOver the past thirty years, a new form of conflict has ravaged Latin America's largest countries, with well...

Reducere. Pigmentocracies--the fruit of the multiyear Project on Ethnicity and Race in Latin America (PERLA)--is a richly revealing analysis of contemporary ...

The reform of social security pensions and healthcare is a key issue for the modern world, and in many ways Latin America has acted as a social lab...

"An exploration of the factors behind neoliberalism's resilience in developing economies and what this could mean for democracy's future"--

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In Parenting Empires, Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas focuses on the parenting practices of Latin American urban elites to analyze how everyday experiences of w...

Combining cross-national quantitative research covering the entire region and in-depth case studies based on field research, Human Capital versus B...

This book examines the contemporary art world in Latin America from an anthropological and historical perspective, and recognises the recent reconf...

Amidst the many lamentations about the problems of democracy, Joe Foweraker turns his attention to specific questions: Is democracy incompatible wi...

Placing Latin America offers a thematic approach to the study of the diverse geographies of a globalizing region. This comprehensive text focuses o...

Reducere. The Killing Zone: The United States Wages Cold War in Latin America, Second Edition, is a comprehensive yet concise analysis of U.S. policies in La...

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Examines the redesign of state institutions in post-war African countries arguing for a more consociational approach to peacebuilding and democracy...

Air Transport System Analysis and Modelling is a unique book dealing with analysis and modelling of the demand, capacity, quality of services, econ...

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How middle-class economic dependence on the state impedes democratization and contributes to authoritarian resilience Conventional wisdom holds tha...

Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): Luis (Reynolds Professor of Latin American Studies, Reynolds Professor of Latin American Studies, ...

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Publisher: Symposium BooksIllustration(s): illustrationsNumber of pages: 264Publication date: 2009Dimensions: 178 x 112 x 14Cover type: Paperback /...

The turn of the century has been a moment of rapid urbanization. Much of this urban growth is taking place in the cities of the developing world an...

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Description World War I utterly transformed the lives of Jews around the world: it allowed them to display their patriotism, to dispel antisemitic ...