Routledge Studies in Latin American Development
About the Book Series
The series features innovative and original research on Latin American development from scholars both within and outside of Latin America. It particularly promotes comparative and interdisciplinary research targeted at a global readership.
In terms of theory and method, rather than basing itself on any one orthodoxy, the series draws broadly on the tool kit of the social sciences in general, emphasizing comparison, the analysis of the structure and processes, and the application of qualitative and quantitative methods.
The series welcomes submissions from established and junior authors on cutting-edge and high-level research on key topics that feature in global news and public debate. To submit proposals, please contact the Editor, Helena Hurd ([email protected]).
The Boric Government in Chile: Between Refoundation and Reform
1st Edition
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By Carlos Peña, Patricio Silva
January 30, 2025
This book analyses the victory of Gabriel Boric in Chile during the presidential elections of December 2021. He brought the radical left into power, after three decades of centre- left and right- wing governments. In order to explain this abrupt political mutation in the country, the book explores ...
Deepening Democracy in Post-Neoliberal Bolivia and Venezuela: Advances and Setbacks
1st Edition
By John Brown
August 26, 2024
This book provides a timely and nuanced analysis of the successes and shortcoming of efforts to move beyond market democracy in Bolivia and Venezuela. A twin crisis of democratic representation and socio-economic precarity created space for anti-system outsiders to emerge on the left flank of ...
Non-State Actors and Sustainable Development in Brazil: The Diffusion of the 2030 Agenda
1st Edition
By Eduardo Gonçalves Gresse
August 26, 2024
This book investigates how non-state actors have become key drivers of the diffusion of the UN 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development in Brazil. The UN ranks Brazil as the most biodiverse country in the world, but the country’s environment has never been under greater threat, with the rise of ...
Social Revolt in Chile: Triggering Factors and Possible Outcomes
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By Carlos Peña, Patricio Silva
August 26, 2024
This book investigates why Chile suddenly confronted a violent social revolt in October 2019, after almost thirty years of political stability, during which time the country was broadly regarded as Latin America’s most successful nation. Since democratic restoration in 1990, Chile’s relatively high...
The Latin American Crisis and the New Authoritarian State
1st Edition
By Manuel Larrabure
August 26, 2024
This book provides a fresh interpretation of the rise and fall of Latin America’s ‘left turn’, or movement towards more progressive economic or social policies. From a historical and comparative perspective, the book argues that Latin America is entering a new phase of authoritarian statism. Based...
Brazilian Elites and their Philanthropy: Wealth at the Service of Development
1st Edition
By Jessica Sklair
May 31, 2023
This book explores the philanthropy of Brazilian elites during a key period in recent Brazilian history, from Workers Party president Lula’s last term in office through to the election of far-right president Jair Bolsonaro. Against this backdrop of political upheaval, the book asks what ...
The Informal Sector in Ecuador: Artisans, Entrepreneurs and Precarious Family Firms
1st Edition
By Alan Middleton
May 31, 2023
This book looks back over the last forty years of change and development in Ecuador, showing how macro level changes have impacted families and workplaces on the local level. Traditionally a dependent economy reliant on agricultural exports, the impact of neoliberalism and new sources of income ...
Bolivia at the Crossroads: Politics, Economy, and Environment in a Time of Crisis
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By Soledad Valdivia Rivera
August 29, 2022
As Bolivia reels from the collapse of the government in November 2019, a wave of social protests, and now the impact of Covid-19, this book asks: where next for Bolivia? After almost 14 years in power, the government of Bolivia’s first indigenous president collapsed in 2019 amidst widescale ...
Legal Experiments for Development in Latin America: Modernization, Revolution and Social Justice
1st Edition
By Helena Alviar García
August 29, 2022
This book provides a nuanced picture of how diverse legal debates on the pursuit of economic development and modernization have played out in Latin America since independence. The opposing concepts of modernization theory and Dependency Theory can be seen to be playing out within the field of legal...
Money from the Government in Latin America: Conditional Cash Transfer Programs and Rural Lives
1st Edition
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By Maria Elisa Balen, Martin Fotta
September 30, 2021
It has been almost two decades since conditional cash transfer programs first appeared on the agendas of multilateral agencies and politicians. Latin America has often been used as a testing ground for these programs, which consist of transfers of money to subsections of the population upon ...
Development Banks and Sustainability in the Andean Amazon
1st Edition
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By Rebecca Ray, Kevin P. Gallagher, Cynthia A. Sanborn
June 30, 2021
This book explores what development banks, governments, and communities have learned in the last decade of careful negotiation between social and environmental protections in the Andean Amazon, and the pressures of a surging infrastructure and development boom. While mega-dams, highways, and ports ...
Industrial Development in Mexico: Policy Transformation from Below
1st Edition
By Walid Tijerina
December 18, 2020
This book explores developmental policymaking across the multiple levels of Mexico’s contemporary state, arguing that many of the innovations in industrial policy have been driven at the subnational level. In the three decades since Mexico’s neoliberal turn in its political economy, subnational ...