Readings in Latin American politics : challenges to democratization / [compiled by] Peter R. Kingstone.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

The challeneges of democratization -- What democracy is ... and is not / Philippe C. Schmitter and Terry Lynn Karl 1991 -- Fragile democracies / Forrest Colburn 2002 -- Democracies without citizenship: injustice for all: crime and impunity in Latin America / Paulo Sergio Pinheiro 1996 -- How people view democracy: between stability and crisis in latin America / Marta Lagos 2001 -- Neoliberal economic reform -- State versus market: the rise and fall of import substitution / Duncan Green 1995 -- What Washington means by policy reform / John Williamson 1990 -- Good-bye to the Washington concensus? / James E. Mahon Jr. 2003 -- Neoliberal social policy: managing poverty (Somehow) / Carlos M. Vilas 1997 -- Traditional and emerging actors in the Latin American polity -- The new military autonomy in Latin America / Consuelo Cruz and Rut Diamint 1998 -- Latin American labor / M. Victoria Murillo 2003 -- Women in Latin America: unequal progress toward equality / Mala Htun 1999 -- Indigenous protest and democracy in Latin America / Deborah J. Yashar 1996 -- The United States and Latin America -- The uneasy Americas / Peter Hakim 2001 -- Preserving hegemony:national security doctrine in the post-Cold War Era / J. Patrice McSherry 2001 -- Political instability and Argentina's boom and bust and boom again cycles -- Argenina: crisis and democratic consolidation / Hector E. Schamis 2002 -- Argentina: anatomy of a crisis foretold / Pamela K. Starr 2003 -- The nature of the new Argentine democracy: the delegative democracy argument revisited / Enrique Peruzzotti 2001 -- Brazil: the democratizing giant -- Brazil's new direction / Wendy Hunter 2003 -- Brazil: an assessment of the Cardoso Administration / Bolivar Lamounier 2003 -- A new Brazil? the changing sociodemographic context of Brazilian democracy / Timothy J. Power and J. Timmons Roberts 2000 -- Chile: a new model for the region? -- Democratic instittions and civil-military relations: the case of Chile / Gregory Weeks 2001 -- The limits of democracy: socio-political compromise and regime change in post-Pinochet Chile / Patrick S. Barrett 1999 -- Free society, repressed media: the Chilean paradox / Judy Polumbaum 2002 -- Colombia: the collapse of the state -- Capital punishment: the fragmentation of Columbia and the crisis of the nation-state / Jeff Browitt 2001 -- Is the war ending? Premises and Hypothese with which to view the conflict in Colombia / javier Guerrero Baron 2001 -- Colombia and the United States: from counternarcotics to counterterrorism / Arlene B. Tickner 2003 -- Cuba: a Latin American experiment in socialism -- The secrets of Castro's staying power / Jorge I. Dominguez 1993 -- The virtues and misfortunes of civil society in Cuba / Haroldo Dilla and Philip Oxhorn 2002 -- Fear and loathing of Fidel Castro: sources of U.S. Policy toward Cuba / Louis A. Perez Jr. 2002 -- Mexico: the emergence of democracy? -- Attitudes toward democracy: Mexico in comparative perspective / Alejandro Moreno and Patricia Mendez 2002 -- Democratization in Mexico: the Zapatista uprising and civil society / Chris Gilbreth and Gerardo Otero 2001 -- Fox's Mexico: same as it ever was? / Pamela K. Starr 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.