TY - BOOK AU - Kingstone,Peter R. TI - Readings in Latin American politics: challenges to democratization SN - 0618371362 AV - JL 966 K55r 2006 U1 - 320.8 PY - 2006/// CY - Boston PB - Houghton Mifflin KW - Democratization KW - Latin America KW - History KW - Democracia KW - América Latina KW - Democratización KW - Politics and government KW - 1980- KW - Política y gobierno N1 - 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 N2 - 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 ER -