Readings in Latin American politics : challenges to democratization /
Kingstone, Peter R., 1964-
Readings in Latin American politics : challenges to democratization / [compiled by] Peter R. Kingstone. - Boston : Houghton Mifflin, c2006. - xiv, 562 p. : map ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The challeneges of democratization -- What democracy is ... and is not / Fragile democracies / Democracies without citizenship: injustice for all: crime and impunity in Latin America / How people view democracy: between stability and crisis in latin America / Neoliberal economic reform -- State versus market: the rise and fall of import substitution / What Washington means by policy reform / Good-bye to the Washington concensus? / Neoliberal social policy: managing poverty (Somehow) / Traditional and emerging actors in the Latin American polity -- The new military autonomy in Latin America / Latin American labor / Women in Latin America: unequal progress toward equality / The United States and Latin America -- The uneasy Americas / Preserving hegemony:national security doctrine in the post-Cold War Era / Political instability and Argentina's boom and bust and boom again cycles -- Argenina: crisis and democratic consolidation / Argentina: anatomy of a crisis foretold / The nature of the new Argentine democracy: the delegative democracy argument revisited / Brazil: the democratizing giant -- Brazil's new direction / Brazil: an assessment of the Cardoso Administration / A new Brazil? the changing sociodemographic context of Brazilian democracy / Chile: a new model for the region? -- Democratic instittions and civil-military relations: the case of Chile / The limits of democracy: socio-political compromise and regime change in post-Pinochet Chile / Free society, repressed media: the Chilean paradox / Colombia: the collapse of the state -- Capital punishment: the fragmentation of Columbia and the crisis of the nation-state / Is the war ending? Premises and Hypothese with which to view the conflict in Colombia / Colombia and the United States: from counternarcotics to counterterrorism / Cuba: a Latin American experiment in socialism -- The secrets of Castro's staying power / The virtues and misfortunes of civil society in Cuba / Fear and loathing of Fidel Castro: sources of U.S. Policy toward Cuba / Mexico: the emergence of democracy? -- Attitudes toward democracy: Mexico in comparative perspective / Democratization in Mexico: the Zapatista uprising and civil society / Fox's Mexico: same as it ever was? / Philippe C. Schmitter and Terry Lynn Karl Forrest Colburn Paulo Sergio Pinheiro Marta Lagos Duncan Green John Williamson James E. Mahon Jr. Carlos M. Vilas Consuelo Cruz and Rut Diamint M. Victoria Murillo Mala Htun Deborah J. Yashar Peter Hakim J. Patrice McSherry Hector E. Schamis Pamela K. Starr Enrique Peruzzotti Wendy Hunter Bolivar Lamounier Timothy J. Power and J. Timmons Roberts Gregory Weeks Patrick S. Barrett Judy Polumbaum Jeff Browitt javier Guerrero Baron Arlene B. Tickner Jorge I. Dominguez Haroldo Dilla and Philip Oxhorn Louis A. Perez Jr. Alejandro Moreno and Patricia Mendez Chris Gilbreth and Gerardo Otero Pamela K. Starr 1991 -- 2002 -- 1996 -- 2001 -- 1995 -- 1990 -- 2003 -- 1997 -- 1998 -- 2003 -- 1999 -- Indigenous protest and democracy in Latin America / 1996 -- 2001 -- 2001 -- 2002 -- 2003 -- 2001 -- 2003 -- 2003 -- 2000 -- 2001 -- 1999 -- 2002 -- 2001 -- 2001 -- 2003 -- 1993 -- 2002 -- 2002 -- 2002 -- 2001 -- 2002
This new and innovative reader focuses on challenges to the establishment, maintenance and deeping of democracy in Latin America. It is divided into two parts - the first focuses on important themes in the study of Latin American politics, while the second explores issues related to these themes in the context of specific countries. The text incorporates a variety of articles, from scholarly works that provide theoretical grounding on importat issues to more accessible pieces that provide immediacy and contectual detail.
0618371362 9780618371365
Democratization--History.--Latin America
Democracia--América Latina
Democratización--América Latina
Latin America--Politics and government--1980-
América Latina--Política y gobierno--1980-
JL 966 / K55r 2006
320.8
Readings in Latin American politics : challenges to democratization / [compiled by] Peter R. Kingstone. - Boston : Houghton Mifflin, c2006. - xiv, 562 p. : map ; 24 cm.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The challeneges of democratization -- What democracy is ... and is not / Fragile democracies / Democracies without citizenship: injustice for all: crime and impunity in Latin America / How people view democracy: between stability and crisis in latin America / Neoliberal economic reform -- State versus market: the rise and fall of import substitution / What Washington means by policy reform / Good-bye to the Washington concensus? / Neoliberal social policy: managing poverty (Somehow) / Traditional and emerging actors in the Latin American polity -- The new military autonomy in Latin America / Latin American labor / Women in Latin America: unequal progress toward equality / The United States and Latin America -- The uneasy Americas / Preserving hegemony:national security doctrine in the post-Cold War Era / Political instability and Argentina's boom and bust and boom again cycles -- Argenina: crisis and democratic consolidation / Argentina: anatomy of a crisis foretold / The nature of the new Argentine democracy: the delegative democracy argument revisited / Brazil: the democratizing giant -- Brazil's new direction / Brazil: an assessment of the Cardoso Administration / A new Brazil? the changing sociodemographic context of Brazilian democracy / Chile: a new model for the region? -- Democratic instittions and civil-military relations: the case of Chile / The limits of democracy: socio-political compromise and regime change in post-Pinochet Chile / Free society, repressed media: the Chilean paradox / Colombia: the collapse of the state -- Capital punishment: the fragmentation of Columbia and the crisis of the nation-state / Is the war ending? Premises and Hypothese with which to view the conflict in Colombia / Colombia and the United States: from counternarcotics to counterterrorism / Cuba: a Latin American experiment in socialism -- The secrets of Castro's staying power / The virtues and misfortunes of civil society in Cuba / Fear and loathing of Fidel Castro: sources of U.S. Policy toward Cuba / Mexico: the emergence of democracy? -- Attitudes toward democracy: Mexico in comparative perspective / Democratization in Mexico: the Zapatista uprising and civil society / Fox's Mexico: same as it ever was? / Philippe C. Schmitter and Terry Lynn Karl Forrest Colburn Paulo Sergio Pinheiro Marta Lagos Duncan Green John Williamson James E. Mahon Jr. Carlos M. Vilas Consuelo Cruz and Rut Diamint M. Victoria Murillo Mala Htun Deborah J. Yashar Peter Hakim J. Patrice McSherry Hector E. Schamis Pamela K. Starr Enrique Peruzzotti Wendy Hunter Bolivar Lamounier Timothy J. Power and J. Timmons Roberts Gregory Weeks Patrick S. Barrett Judy Polumbaum Jeff Browitt javier Guerrero Baron Arlene B. Tickner Jorge I. Dominguez Haroldo Dilla and Philip Oxhorn Louis A. Perez Jr. Alejandro Moreno and Patricia Mendez Chris Gilbreth and Gerardo Otero Pamela K. Starr 1991 -- 2002 -- 1996 -- 2001 -- 1995 -- 1990 -- 2003 -- 1997 -- 1998 -- 2003 -- 1999 -- Indigenous protest and democracy in Latin America / 1996 -- 2001 -- 2001 -- 2002 -- 2003 -- 2001 -- 2003 -- 2003 -- 2000 -- 2001 -- 1999 -- 2002 -- 2001 -- 2001 -- 2003 -- 1993 -- 2002 -- 2002 -- 2002 -- 2001 -- 2002
This new and innovative reader focuses on challenges to the establishment, maintenance and deeping of democracy in Latin America. It is divided into two parts - the first focuses on important themes in the study of Latin American politics, while the second explores issues related to these themes in the context of specific countries. The text incorporates a variety of articles, from scholarly works that provide theoretical grounding on importat issues to more accessible pieces that provide immediacy and contectual detail.
0618371362 9780618371365
Democratization--History.--Latin America
Democracia--América Latina
Democratización--América Latina
Latin America--Politics and government--1980-
América Latina--Política y gobierno--1980-
JL 966 / K55r 2006
320.8