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  • The Oxford Handbook of Education and Globalization

    Edited by Paola Mattei, Xavier Dumay, Eric Mangez, Jacqueline Behrend ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Globalization has become one of the most recurrent concepts in social and political sciences. More often than not, however, the concept is handled without much of a properly articulated theory capable of explaining its historical origin and expansion. For education researchers attempting to elucidate how global changes and processes affect their field of study, this situation is problematic. The ... Read more

    $161.99 USD

  • Illiberal Practices

    Territorial Variance within Large Federal Democracies

    Edited by Jacqueline Behrend, Laurence Whitehead ...
    What drives the uneven distribution of democratic practices at the subnational level?Within subunits of a democratic federation, lasting political practices that restrict choice, limit debate, and exclude or distort democratic participation have been analyzed in recent scholarship as subnational authoritarianism. Once a critical number of citizens or regions band together in these practices, they ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • Mounting Pressures on the Rule of Law

    Governability for Development and Democracy in Latin America

    Edited by Jacqueline Behrend, Laurence Whitehead ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Latin American Politics
    This important book offers an original perspective on the rule of law, development, and democracy in Latin America, establishing a new approach in recognizing the realities of political economy as opposed to merely structural and institutional factors.With contributions from an international team of experts, the book outlines the main challenges that have arisen in the pursuit of a developmental ... Read more

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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

  • 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

  • Civil Society and the State in Left-Led Latin America

    Challenges and Limitations to Democratization

    Edited by Barry Cannon, Peadar Kirby ...
    Timely and unique, this innovative volume provides a critical examination of the role of civil society and its relation to the state throughout left-led Latin America. Featuring a broad range of case studies from across the region, from the Bolivian Constitution to participative budgeting in Brazil to the communal councils in Venezuela, the book examines to what extent these new initiatives are ... Read more

    $97.19 USD

  • 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

  • Inclusion without Representation in Latin America

    Gender Quotas and Ethnic Reservations

    by Mala Htun ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Gender and Politics
    This book analyzes why and how fifteen Latin American countries modified their political institutions to promote the inclusion of women, Afrodescendants, and indigenous peoples. Through analysis and comparison of experiences in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, and Mexico, the book accounts for the origins of quotas and reserved seats in international norms and civic mobilization. It ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Portuguese Politics

    Edited by Jorge M. Fernandes, Pedro C. Magalhães, António Costa Pinto ...
    The Oxford Handbook of Portuguese Politics brings together the best scholars in the field offering an unrivalled coverage of the politics (broadly defined) of the country over the past 50 years. The Handbook includes eight sections. First, it looks at the past and present by making an overview of Portuguese political developments since democratization in the 1970s. Second, it looks at political ... Read more

    $165.59 USD

  • The Resilience of the Latin American Right

    Edited by Juan Pablo Luna, Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser ...
    This comparative study of Latin American conservative politics over the past twenty years analyzes right-of-center actors, electoral movements, parties, and economic policy dynamics.Since the late 1990s, when Latin American countries began making a “turn to the left,” political parties and candidates on the right end of the partisan spectrum have had a difficult time achieving electoral success. ... Read more

    $31.19 USD

  • State Crisis in Fragile Democracies

    Polarization and Political Regimes in South America

    by Samuel Handlin ...
    This book offers a novel political-institutional explanation for variation in political polarization, outsider populism, and the fate of democratic regimes across twenty-first-century South America. Drawing upon a wealth of primary evidence and employing process tracing tests to evaluate key causal claims, the book examines how the occurrence - or not - of state crises and the inherited strength ... Read more

    $38.59 USD

  • Globalization on the Ground

    Postbellum Guatemalan Democracy and Development

    by Christopher Chase-Dunn, John A. Booth, Stephen G. Bunker, A Douglas Kincaid, Susan Manning, Alejandro Portes, Julia Richards, Michael Richards0, Gert Rosenthal1, José Serech2, Edelberto Torres3, Kay B. Warren4, William I. Robinson5 ...
    This book presents research, analysis, and reflections on the major issues of Guatemalan development and democracy: the role of the military, the involvement of Mayan communities in national development, the possible emergence of more inclusive political institutions and the roles of international forces and agencies in Guatemalan social change. The chapters in this book are written by some of the ... Read more

    $49.99 USD