Routledge Studies in Latin American Politics
Latin American Relations with the Middle East: Foreign Policy in Times of Crisis
1st Edition
Edited
By Marta Tawil Kuri, Élodie Brun
September 25, 2023
Latin American Relations with the Middle East surveys the dealings of ten Latin American and Caribbean states – Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Cuba, Peru, Mexico, Uruguay, and Venezuela – with the Middle East. This volume examins these states' external behavior at both an empirical...
Presidential Power in Latin America: Examining the Cases of Argentina and Chile
1st Edition
By Dan Berbecel
September 25, 2023
What explains variance in presidential power between countries? In Presidential Power in Latin America, Dan Berbecel provides a general, systematic theory for explaining presidential power in practice as opposed to presidential power in theory. Using expert survey data from Varieties of Democracy (...
Anti-Neoliberal Populisms in Comparative Perspective: A Latinamericanisation of Southern Europe?
1st Edition
By Enrico Padoan
May 30, 2022
In this book, Enrico Padoan proposes an original middle-range theory to explain the emergence and the internal organisation of anti-neoliberal populist parties in Latin America and Southern Europe, and the relationships between these parties and the organised working class. Padoan begins by tracing...
Crime, Violence and the State in Latin America
1st Edition
By Jonathan D. Rosen, Hanna Samir Kassab
May 06, 2022
In this succinct text, Jonathan D. Rosen and Hanna Samir Kassab explore the linkage between weak institutions and government policies designed to combat drug trafficking, organized crime, and violence in Latin America. Using quantitative analysis to examine criminal violence and publicly available...
Democracy and Brazil: Collapse and Regression
1st Edition
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By Bernardo Bianchi, Jorge Chaloub, Patricia Rangel, Frieder Otto Wolf
May 06, 2022
Democracy and Brazil: Collapse and Regression discusses the de-democratization process underway in contemporary Brazil. The relative political stability that characterized domestic politics in the 2000s ended with the sudden emergence of a series of massive protests in 2013, followed by the ...
Peace and Rural Development in Colombia: The Window for Distributive Change in Negotiated Transitions
1st Edition
By Andrés García Trujillo
April 29, 2022
In Peace and Rural Development in Colombia Andrés García Trujillo investigates whether peace agreements geared toward terminating internal armed conflicts trigger rural distributive changes. Combining academic rigor with an insider’s perspective, García Trujillo shows that the peace agreement in ...
Latin America and Policy Diffusion: From Import to Export
1st Edition
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By Osmany Porto de Oliveira, Cecilia Osorio Gonnet, Sergio Montero, Cristiane Kerches da Silva Leite
August 02, 2021
Latin American countries have for a long time been importers of public policies and institutions from the Global North. The colonial legacy and resulting patterns of international relations during the 20th century favoured a course of adoption and hybridization of political institutions. In recent ...
The Mobilization and Demobilization of Middle-Class Revolt: Comparative Insights from Argentina
1st Edition
By Daniel Ozarow
December 18, 2020
Adopting Argentina’s popular uprisings against neoliberalism including the 2001-02 rebellion and subsequent mass protests as a case study, The Mobilization and Demobilization of Middle-Class Revolt analyzes two decades of longitudinal research (1995-2018), including World Bank and Latinobarómeter ...
Government and Governance of Security: The Politics of Organised Crime in Chile
1st Edition
By Carlos Solar
September 30, 2020
At a time when Latin America is experiencing societal unrest from human rights violations, corruption and weak institutions Government and Governance of Security offers an insightful understanding for the modern steering of crime policies. Using Chile as a case study, the book delivers an untold ...
Media Leaks and Corruption in Brazil: The Infostorm of Impeachment and the Lava-Jato Scandal
1st Edition
By Mads Bjelke Damgaard
September 30, 2020
Analyzing the political consequences of the most extensive corruption investigation in recent Latin American history, Operação Lava-Jato, Media Leaks and Corruption in Brazil answers two central questions about the contradictory effects news media has on political systems. First, how can political ...
The Media Commons and Social Movements: Grassroots Mediations Against Neoliberal Politics
1st Edition
By Jorge Saavedra Utman
September 30, 2020
What does it mean to have a voice in a formal democracy operating under neoliberal guidelines and with an almost entirely private media system? How can the people gain their voice and engage in a dialogue with hegemonic actors and discourses?In this book, Jorge Saavedra Utman examines the role of ...
Young People and Everyday Peace: Exclusion, Insecurity and Peacebuilding in Colombia
1st Edition
By Helen Berents
August 14, 2020
Young People and Everyday Peace is grounded in the stories of young people who live in Los Altos de Cazucá, an informal peri-urban community in Soacha, to the south of Colombia’s capital Bogotá. The occupants of this community have fled the armed conflict and exist in a state of marginalisation and...