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An engaging and accessible introduction to the subject, Comparative Politics: Integrating Theories, Methods, and Cases gives students the methodological tools they need to answer the "big questions" in the field. The authors introduce methods early in the text and integrate them throughout, in Thinking Comparatively features, to help students develop a systematic way of thinking about comparative politics. Offering a hybrid format, the text's unique structure offers the best of thematic and country-by-country approaches. Sixteen succinct thematic chapters--organized around the "big questions" in the field--are followed by a separate section at the end of the book offering full-length profiles and case studies for twelve countries. Examples of some of the "big picture questions discussed in the thematic chapters are, "Why do countries have different institutions and forms of government? Why do some social revolutions succeed and endure while others fail? Why are some societies subjected to terrorism and not others?" Each chapter integrates several standalone country case studies in Case in Context features; these features tie into the narrative, pose questions, and point students to the full case discussions in the country profiles section of the book.

During the patron saint fiesta in the Andean town of San Jeronimo, Peru, crowds gather at sunset in the town square, eagerly awaiting the entrance of the colourful dance troupes, or "comparsas". With their masks, music and surprising interpretations of contemporary events, the "comparsas" of the Cusco region are the focus of this multifaceted work. At the crossroads of folklore and ritual, mass media and local preferences, and regional and national identity, the "comparsas" -recorded here on video and compact disc - have become a powerful way for the local people to make sense of their place in Peru and in the world. As Zoila Mendoza shows, they do more than reflect societal changes, they actively transform society. In this fluid world, she argues, racial and ethnic identities are shaped more by notions of what is decent, elegant and modern rather than by skin colour or status. As the different troupes vie for the townspeople's recognition as the most "authentic" group, these notions are challenged and reworked. A fascinating look at a rich tradition, this innovative work is also a compelling example of the critical anthropology of performance.

Este libro presenta un análisis de la sexualidad femenina en los textos literarios de dos escritoras feministas hispanas: Cristina Escofet e Isabel Allende. Ambas crean realidades alternativas y enfatizan el uso del conocimiento subconsciente para ayudarnos a entender la sexualidad femenina, al tiempo que nos posibilitan hacer cambios en la injusticia de nuestro mundo jerárquico. Además de la deconstrucción de arquetipos misóginos sobre Eva, Escofet y Allende exploran la figura de la sexualmente activa Lillith, antigua pareja de Adán, la cual ha sido caracterizada como "ente" u "Otro" negativo. Durante generaciones, el mito de mujer diabólica que la acompaña ha sido revivido por los medios de comunicación, en donde asume roles femeninos de innumerables personajes malévolos. Junto a Eva y Lillith, los personajes de mujeres negras e indígenas también expresan su disidencia al relatar nuevamente sus historias a través de sus palabras y desempeños. Estas historias entretejen nuevas maneras de interpretar la sexualidad femenina mediante el reclamo de divinidades y heroínas.This book presents an analysis of female sexuality in the literary texts of two Hispanic feminist writers: Cristina Escofet and Isabel Allende. Both writers create alternative realities and emphasize the use of subconscious knowledge to help us understand sexuality and to enable us to make changes in our unjust hierarchical world. In addition to deconstructing misogynist archetypes of Eve, Escofet and Allende explore the figure of Adam's sexually active ex-partner Lillith, who has typically been portrayed as the negative Other. For generations the she-devil myth which surrounds her has resurfaced in the media, where she assumes the roles of innumerable evil female characters. Alongside Eve and Lillith, black and indigenous characters express dissent by retelling their stories in words and performance. These stories weave new ways of understanding female sexuality by reclaiming female divinities or heroines.

In Creating Our Own, anthropologist Zoila S. Mendoza explores the early-twentieth-century development of the “folkloric arts”-particularly music, dance, and drama-in Cuzco, Peru, revealing the central role that these expressive practices played in shaping ethnic and regional identities. Mendoza argues that the folkloric productions emerging in Cuzco in the early twentieth century were integral to, rather than only a reflection of, the social and political processes underlying the development of the indigenismo movement. By demonstrating how Cuzco’s folklore emerged from complex interactions between artists and intellectuals of different social classes, she challenges the idea that indigenismo was a project of the elites.Mendoza draws on early-twentieth-century newspapers and other archival documents as well as interviews with key artistic and intellectual figures and their descendants. She offers vivid descriptions of the Peruvian Mission of Incaic Art, a tour undertaken by a group of artists from Cuzco, at their own expense, to represent Peru to Bolivia, Argentina, and Uruguay in 1923–24, as well as of the origins in the 1920s of the Qosqo Center of Native Art, the first cultural institution dedicated to regional and national folkloric art. She highlights other landmarks, including both The Charango Hour, a radio show that contributed to the broad acceptance of rural Andean music from its debut in 1937, and the rise in that same year of another major cultural institution, the American Art Institute of Cuzco. Throughout, she emphasizes the intricate local, regional, national, and international pressures that combined to produce folkloric art, especially the growing importance of national and international tourism in Cuzco.Please visit the Web site http://nas.ucdavis.edu/creatingbook for samples of the images and music discussed in this book.

Combining compelling field research with sharp analysis, The Politics of Healthcare Expansion unravels why efforts to expand equitable healthcare so often fall short - and why some succeed. Through comparative case studies from Chile, Mexico, and Peru, this book reveals how political party commitment, or the lack of it, shapes the design, implementation, and sustainability of healthcare reform. Moving beyond ideology, it demonstrates the crucial role of programmatic party engagement and analyzes the impact of technocrats and external actors when political parties are weak or disengaged. With timely lessons highlighted by the region's COVID-19 experience, this book offers rigorous insights and practical implications for anyone seeking to understand or influence social policy reform in emerging democracies.

Combining compelling field research with sharp analysis, The Politics of Healthcare Expansion unravels why efforts to expand equitable healthcare so often fall short - and why some succeed. Through comparative case studies from Chile, Mexico, and Peru, this book reveals how political party commitment, or the lack of it, shapes the design, implementation, and sustainability of healthcare reform. Moving beyond ideology, it demonstrates the crucial role of programmatic party engagement and analyzes the impact of technocrats and external actors when political parties are weak or disengaged. With timely lessons highlighted by the region's COVID-19 experience, this book offers rigorous insights and practical implications for anyone seeking to understand or influence social policy reform in emerging democracies.

This book describes a unique combination of quantum chemical methods for calculating the basic physical properties of luminescent materials, or phosphors.

This book describes a unique combination of quantum chemical methods for calculating the basic physical properties of luminescent materials, or phosphors.

Cuban American Camila Núñez has always been afraid of the future. She’s been working hard to keep her anxieties in check, but with so many new experiences - her first queer love, trouble with her dog walking job, her mother’s judgments about her body, learning to drive, her father being too busy with work - there’s just so much to worry about.So when Camila’s best friend gives her a tarot card reading for her sixteenth birthday, she believes it when the cards predict terrible things to come. As the year unfolds, the cards seem to be spot-on - is her papi having an affair? Will her best friend’s love life ruin their friendship? Are all her relationships doomed to fail?Whether she’s ready or not, Camila will have to reckon with all the ways her fear about the future is ruining her life and learn to find peace amidst it all.