Latin American Studies: Social Sciences and Law
Contesting the Iron Fist: Advocacy Networks and Police Violence in Democratic Argentina and Chile
1st Edition
By Claudio Fuentes
July 27, 2012
This work analyzes the interactions and international connections of the "civil rights" and "pro-order" coalitions of state and societal actors in the two countries. The author demonstrates that in democratizing contexts, protecting citizens from police abuse and becomes part of a debate about how ...
Political Change and Environmental Policymaking in Mexico
1st Edition
By Jordi Diez
July 27, 2012
This book explores environmental policymaking in Mexico as a vehicle to understanding the broader changes in the policy process within a system undergoing a democratic transformation. It constitutes the first major analysis of environmental policymaking in Mexico at the national level, and examines...
Insurgency, Authoritarianism, and Drug Trafficking in Mexico's Democratization
1st Edition
By Jose L. Velasco
June 28, 2012
Mexico's "democratic transition" has created a competitive electoral system and a formally plural state. Besides, a peculiar wave of insurgency, started in 1994, has challenged the alleged moderating effect of democratic transition. This book argues that socioeconomic inequality is the main factor ...
The Politics of the Internet in Third World Development: Challenges in Contrasting Regimes with Case Studies of Costa Rica and Cuba
1st Edition
By Bert Hoffmann
June 28, 2012
This book examines the political and developmental implications of the new information and communication technologies (NICT) in the Third World. Whereas the concept of the "digital divide" tends to focus on technological and quantitative indicators, this work stresses the crucial role played by the...
Land Privatization in Mexico: Urbanization, Formation of Regions and Globalization in Ejidos
1st Edition
By Maria Teresa Vázquez-Castillo
May 12, 2012
This book analyzes [ejido] land as space of urbanization and location of economic activities and capital and land privatization as a redistributive process with local, urban, regional and global consequences....
The Politics of Moral Sin: Abortion and Divorce in Spain, Chile and Argentina
1st Edition
By Merike Blofield
May 08, 2012
This book analyzes the problems that arise when women's rights conflict with the views of conservative organized religion. Specifically, it addresses the legalization – or lack thereof – of divorce and abortion in three recently democratized Catholic countries: Spain, Chile, and ...
The Unfinished Transition to Democracy in Latin America
1st Edition
By Juan Carlos Calleros-Alarcón
March 13, 2012
This book examines the political evolution of the judiciary – a usually overlooked political actor – and its capacity to contribute to the process of democratic consolidation in Latin America during the 1990s. Calleros analyzes twelve countries in order to assess the independence, impartiality, ...
Female Prostitution in Costa Rica: Historical Perspectives, 1880-1930
1st Edition
By Anne Hayes
March 18, 2010
This book analyzes the development of female prostitution in the Pacific port of Puntarenas, Costa Rica during the advanced stage of the coffee exporting economy (1880-1930), at the height of the consolidation of the liberal state. Hayes argues that prostitution in the port differed from that of ...
State and Business Groups in Mexico: The Role of Informal Institutions in the Process of Industrialization, 1936-1984
1st Edition
By Arnulfo Valdivia-Machuca
October 19, 2009
This book analyzes the history and structure of the intricate system of informal negotiation and secret dealings between the Mexican government and big businessmen in the process of Mexican industrialization between 1936 and 1984. In order to do this, State and Business Groups in Mexico ...
An Industrial Geography of Cocaine
1st Edition
By Christian M. Allen
June 22, 2009
Latin American cocaine trafficking organizations comprise an indigenous, globally competitive, multinational industry. Their business operations are deeply ingrained within the economic and political systems of countries throughout the region. While criminal enterprises operate in a more complex ...
International Relations in Latin America: Peace and Security in the Southern Cone
1st Edition
By Andrea Oelsner
June 09, 2009
This work studies the development of bilateral relations in two pairs of states (dyads): Argentina-Brazil and Argentina-Chile. It takes on a moderate constructivist approach that incorporates into the analysis of international relations the role of identities, ideas and perceptions as well as of ...
Flash and Crash Days: Brazilian Theater in the Post-Dictatorship Period
1st Edition
By David George
December 01, 1999
Flash and Crash Days: Brazilian Theater in the Post-Dictatorship Period deals with the theater produced in Brazil during the 1980s and 1990s, especially postmodernist directors, women playwrights, and theater companies. It attempts to answer the following questions: Did the thriving stage of the...