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  • Superconductivity

    From Materials Science to Practical Applications

    Edited by Paolo Mele, Kosmas Prassides, Chiara Tarantini, Anna Palau, Petre Badica, Alok K. Jha, Tamio Endo ...
    This book provides readers with a comprehensive overview of the science of superconducting materials. It serves as a fundamental information source on the actual techniques and methodologies involved in superconducting materials growth, characterization and processing. This book includes coverage of several categories of medium and high-temperature superconducting materials: cuprate oxides, ... Read more

    $116.99 USD

  • Agenda Dynamics in Spain

    by Laura Chaqués Bonafont, Frank R. Baumgartner, Anna Palau ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    Spanish politics has been transformed. Using new techniques, this book looks at 30 years of Spanish political history to understand party competition, the impact of the EU, media-government relations, aspirations for independence in Catalonia and the Basque region, and the declining role of religion. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

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  • Latin American Politics and Society

    by Gerardo L. Munck, Juan Pablo Luna ...
    Taking a fresh thematic approach to politics and society in Latin America, this introductory textbook analyzes the region's past and present in an accessible and engaging style well-suited to undergraduate students. The book provides historical insights into modern states and critical issues they are facing, with insightful analyses that are supported by empirical data, maps and timelines. Drawing ... Read more

    $40.99 USD

  • Democracy and the Left

    Social Policy and Inequality in Latin America

    by Evelyne Huber, John D. Stephens ...
    Although inequality in Latin America ranks among the worst in the world, it has notably declined over the last decade, offset by improvements in health care and education, enhanced programs for social assistance, and increases in the minimum wage.In Democracy and the Left, Evelyne Huber and John D. Stephens argue that the resurgence of democracy in Latin America is key to this change. In addition ... Read more

    $17.29 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Feminist Agendas and Democracy in Latin America

    by Marcela Ríos Tobar, Jutta Marx, Jutta Borner, Mariana Caminotti ...
    Latin American women’s movements played important roles in the democratic transitions in South America during the 1980s and in Central America during the 1990s. However, very little has been written on what has become of these movements and their agendas since the return to democracy. This timely collection examines how women’s movements have responded to the dramatic political, economic, and ... Read more

    $25.19 USD

  • Neoliberalism, Interrupted

    Social Change and Contested Governance in Contemporary Latin America

    by Mark Goodale, Nancy Postero ...
    In the 1980s and 1990s, neoliberal forms of governance largely dominated Latin American political and social life. Neoliberalism, Interrupted examines the recent and diverse proliferation of responses to neoliberalism's hegemony. In so doing, this vanguard collection of case studies undermines the conventional dichotomies used to understand transformation in this region, such as neoliberalism vs. ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • Side Effects

    Mexican Governance Under NAFTA’s Labor and Environmental Agreements

    by Mark Aspinwall ...
    This is a story about governance in Mexico after the labor and environmental accords—called "side agreements"—that accompanied the NAFTA treaty went into effect. These side agreements required member states to uphold and enforce their labor and environmental laws; though never codified, it was widely accepted that Mexico, in particular, had a problem with law enforcement.Side Effects explores how ... Read more

    $24.59 USD

  • Hugo Chávez and the Bolivarian Revolution

    Populism and democracy in a globalised age

    by Barry Cannon ...
    The emergence of Hugo Chávez in Venezuela has revived analysis of one of Latin America’s most enduring political traditions – populism. Yet Latin America has changed since the heyday of Perón and Evita. Globalisation, implemented through harsh IMF inspired Structural Adjustment Programmes, has taken hold throughout the region and democracy is supposedly the ‘only game in town’. This book examines ... Read more

    $17.29 USD

  • After the Pink Tide

    Corporate State Formation and New Egalitarianisms in Latin America

    Edited by Alessandro Zagato, Marina Gold ...
    Series Book 1 - Egalitarianism
    The left-wing Pink Tide movement that swept across Latin America seems now to be overturned, as a new wave of free-market thinkers emerge across the continent. This book analyses the emergence of corporate power within Latin America and the response of egalitarian movements across the continent trying to break open the constraints of the state. Through an ethnographically grounded and localized ... Read more

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  • Contesting Trade in Central America

    Market Reform and Resistance

    by Rose J. Spalding ...
    In 2004, the United States, five Central American countries, and the Dominican Republic signed the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA), signaling the region’s commitment to a neoliberal economic model. For many, however, neoliberalism had lost its luster as the new century dawned, and resistance movements began to gather force. Contesting Trade in Central America is the first book-length ... Read more

    $31.49 USD

  • Latin America in Times of Turbulence

    Presidentialism under Stress

    Edited by Mariana Llanos, Leiv Marsteintredet ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Latin American Politics
    The Open Access version of this book, available at http://www.tandfebooks.com/doi/view/10.4324/9781003324249**, has been made available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license.**This book accounts for and analyses the latest developments in Latin American presidential democracies, with a special focus on political institutions.The stellar line-up of renowned ... Read more

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  • Post-Hegemonic Regionalism in the Americas

    Toward a Pacific–Atlantic Divide?

    Edited by Jose Briceno-Ruiz, Isidro Morales ...
    Series series New Regionalisms Series
    Regionalism in Latin America and the Caribbean has experienced transformations over the last few years. After more than a decade of a hegemonic model based solely on free-market principles, the regional and global transformation that occurred in the first decade of the new millennium modified the way of understanding economic development and the insertion of regional blocs in global affairs. Old ... Read more

    $59.99 USD