Latin America has changed dramatically over the past few years. While the 1990s were
dominated by the politically orthodoxy of the Washington Consensus and the political …

This book improves understandings of how and why clientelism endures in Latin America
and why state policy is often ineffective. Political scientists and sociologists, the contributors …

The Triumph of Politics offers a comparative and historical interpretation of Venezuela's
Chavez, Bolivia's Morales and Ecuador's Correa-South America's most prominent '21st …

A specter is haunting Latin America: radical populism. Former presidents such as Fernando
Henrique Cardoso and respectable media analysts have cautioned us about the dangers of …

Geographies of Developing Areas is a thought provoking and accessible introductory text,
presenting a fresh view of the Global South that challenges students' pre-conceptions and …

This paper explores the contradictions and limits to agrarian transformation under 21st‐
century socialism in Venezuela. Given the historical destruction wrought by the oil‐based …

Fully updated for the third edition, Contemporary Latin America provides an accessible
concise introduction to the region. Historical context, the countries and their peoples …

El exilio es un mecanismo de exclusión institucional destinado a revocar el pleno uso de los
derechos de ciudadanía y, más aún, prevenir la participación del exiliado/a en la arena …

Providing a critical account of the collapse of the FTAA negotiations and alterations to power
relations in the Americas, this book argues that the collapse was rooted in a" crisis of …

Why would a national political party that has been competitive for decades collapse
overnight? In recent years, parties across Latin America went from being major contenders …