Routledge Studies in Latin American Politics
Transforming Brazil: A History of National Development in the Postwar Era
1st Edition
By Rafael R. Ioris
January 20, 2016
In this book, Rafael R. Ioris critically revisits the postwar context in Brazil to reexamine traditional questions and notions pertaining to the nature of Latin America’s political culture and institutions. It was in this period that the region lived some of its most intense and successful ...
Democracy, Revolution and Geopolitics in Latin America: Venezuela and the International Politics of Discontent
1st Edition
Edited
By Luis Fernando Angosto-Ferrandez
December 01, 2015
Hugo Chávez won re-election in the 2012 Venezuelan presidential election, despite a closer margin between candidates than in previous elections. The results were puzzling for those who believed that Chávez’s government had long ago reached its limits, while Chávez’s supporters were struck by the ...
Representation and Effectiveness in Latin American Democracies: Congress, Judiciary and Civil Society
1st Edition
Edited
By Moira B. MacKinnon, Ludovico Feoli
June 25, 2015
Legislatures, the judiciary and civil society are important actors in representative democracies. In what ways and how well do they represent? And how effectively do they carry out their institutional and social roles? Both questions refer to the key dimensions of democracy analyzed in this book: ...
Transnational Activism and National Movements in Latin America: Bridging the Divide
1st Edition
Edited
By Eduardo Silva
June 25, 2015
During the 1990s, as widespread perception spread of declining state sovereignty, activists and social movement organizations began to form transnational networks and coalitions to pressure both intergovernmental organizations and national governments on a variety of issues. Research has focused on...
Lula, the Workers' Party and the Governability Dilemma in Brazil
1st Edition
By Hernán F. Gómez Bruera
June 09, 2015
While scholars, activists and pundits from around the world have heralded the Lula years as a breakthrough for poverty reduction and the forthcoming emergence of Brazil as a dynamic economic superpower, many of their counterparts in the country as well as a number of Brazilianists elsewhere, have ...
Civil Society and Participatory Governance: Municipal Councils and Social Housing Programs in Brazil
1st Edition
By Maureen M. Donaghy
May 22, 2015
Democratic institutions should promote accountability of government officials to the needs of citizens. Civil society plays a role in exposing corruption as well as in communicating the needs of low-income residents to officials. Neither the institutions of representative democracy nor the presence...
Populism in Venezuela
1st Edition
By Ryan Brading
May 22, 2015
Populism in Venezuela analyses the emergence, formation, reproduction and resistance to a left-wing populist project in a major world oil producer. For readers who seek to understand the historical, economical and sociological contexts that gave rise to a 38 year-old mestizo-mulato Lieutenant ...
Fear and Crime in Latin America: Redefining State-Society Relations
1st Edition
By Lucía Dammert
April 27, 2015
The feeling of insecurity is a little known phenomenon that has been only partially explored by social sciences. However, it has a deep social, cultural and economic impact and may even contribute to define the very structures of the state. In Latin America, fear of crime has become an important ...
Research and International Trade Policy Negotiations: Knowledge and Power in Latin America
1st Edition
Edited
By Mercedes Botto
May 22, 2013
The international trade negotiations that were launched throughout Latin America in the 1990s created significant challenges for developing countries because of their complexity. In order to make informed decisions and successfully legitimize negotiating positions, governments and stakeholders ...