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“felipe arocena”

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  • Lessons from Latin America

    Innovations in Politics, Culture, and Development

    by Kirk Bowman, Felipe Arocena ...
    Since the early 1980s, Latin American countries have been innovative in a range of policy and cultural experiences, including health care, voting, pensions, and multiculturalism. And yet, their policy innovations are rarely found in textbooks. This book addresses that gap, providing a fascinating and wide-ranging exploration of both the history of "looking down" at Latin America and the political, ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

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  • Roots of Brazil

    by Sérgio Buarque de Holanda ...
    Translated by G. Harvey Summ ...
    Series series Kellogg Institute Series on Democracy and Development
    Sérgio Buarque de Holanda's Roots of Brazil is one of the iconic books on Brazilian history, society, and culture. Originally published in 1936, it appears here for the first time in an English language translation with a foreword, "Why Read Roots of Brazil Today?" by Pedro Meira Monteiro, one of the world's leading experts on Buarque de Holanda.Roots of Brazil focuses on the multiple cultural ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • Latin American Politics

    An Introduction

    by David Close ...
    Highlighting eleven different topics in separate chapters, the thematic approach of Latin American Politics offers students the conceptual tools they need to analyze the political systems of all twenty Latin American nations. Such a structure makes the book self-consciously comparative, allowing students to become stronger analysts of comparative politics and better political scientists in general ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Republics of the New World

    The Revolutionary Political Experiment in Nineteenth-Century Latin America

    by Hilda Sabato ...
    A sweeping history ofLatin American republicanism in the nineteenth centuryBy the 1820s, after three centuries under imperial rule, the former Spanish territories of Latin America had shaken off their colonial bonds and founded independent republics. In committing themselves to republicanism, they embarked on a political experiment of an unprecedented scale outside the newly formed United States. ... Read more

    $17.99 USD

  • Sponsored Migration

    The State and Puerto Rican Postwar Migration to the United States

    by Edgardo Meléndez ...
    Series series Global Latin/o Americas
    Puerto Rico is often left out of conversations on migration and transnationalism within the Latino context. Sponsored Migration: The State and Puerto Rican Postwar Migration to the United States by Edgardo Meléndez seeks to rectify this oversight, serving as a comprehensive study of the factors affecting Puerto Rican migration to the United States from the late 1940s to the 1960s. Examining the ... Read more

    $25.89 USD

  • Neighborly Adversaries

    Readings in U.S.–Latin American Relations

    Edited by Frank O. Mora, Michael J. LaRosa ...
    The history of U.S.–Latin American relations has been characterized by a complex fusion of tensions, collaboration, misperceptions, and intervention. Offering a balanced and interdisciplinary interpretation, this comprehensive reader traces the often-troubled relationship from the beginnings of the nineteenth century to the presidency of Barack Obama. Completely revised and updated, this third ... Read more

    $48.59 USD

  • Emerging Markets and the State

    Developmentalism in the 21st Century

    by Christopher Wylde ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book, through an analysis of case studies in Latin America and Southeast Asia, sets out to understand the form and function of contemporary states seeking to guide and cajole markets, hoping to stimulate economic growth and generate robust development outcomes. In the context of contemporary globalization, and the hegemony of a neoliberal mode of capital accumulation, independent state ... Read more

    $98.09 USD

  • The Class Struggle in Latin America

    Making History Today

    by James Petras, Henry Veltmeyer ...
    Series series Routledge Critical Development Studies
    The Class Struggle in Latin America: Making History Today analyses the political and economic dynamics of development in Latin America through the lens of class struggle. Focusing in particular on Peru, Paraguay, Chile, Colombia, Argentina, Brazil and Venezuela, the book identifies how the shifts and changing dynamics of the class struggle have impacted on the rise, demise and resurgence of neo ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Water Security, Justice and the Politics of Water Rights in Peru and Bolivia

    by Miriam Seemann ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    The author scrutinizes the claim of policy-makers and experts that legal recognition of local water rights would reduce water conflict and increase water security and equality for peasant and indigenous water users. She analyzes two distinct 'top-down' and 'bottom-up' formalization policies in Peru and Bolivia - neoliberal the former, indigenist-socialist the latter. The policies have intended and ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • The Promise of Participation

    Experiments in Participatory Governance in Honduras and Guatemala

    by D. Altschuler, J. Corrales ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    To what extent does participation in one particular domain of public life lead to wider participation in other areas? Through the use of an unprecedented survey supported by case studies this book explores how participatory governance in community-managed schools can alter the civic and political behaviour of participants. ... Read more

    $49.99 USD

  • Democracy in “Two Mexicos”

    Political Institutions in Oaxaca and Nuevo León

    by G. Correa-Cabrera ...
    Series series Political Science and International Studies (R0)
    This book explains some of the ways in which deteriorated socioeconomic conditions (inequality in particular) and institutional limitations (corruption, electoral exclusion, and a weak rule of law, among others) affect political stability in extremely unequal developing countries, like Mexico, where democracy is not yet fully consolidated. ... Read more

    $49.49 USD

  • The First Export Era Revisited

    Reassessing its Contribution to Latin American Economies

    Edited by Sandra Kuntz-Ficker ...
    Series series Economics and Finance (R0)
    This book challenges the wide-ranging generalizations that dominate the literature on the impact of export-led growth upon Latin America during the first export era. The contributors to this volume contest conventional approaches, stemming from structuralism and dependency theory, which portray a rather negative view of the impact of nineteenth-century globalization upon Latin America. It has been ... Read more

    $98.09 USD