Governance, Development, and Social Inclusion in Latin America – serie
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Mexico and the Post-2015 Development Agenda
Contributions and Challenges
Inbunden, 2017
1095 kr
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This book explores how and why Mexico’s approach to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) implementation with the López Obrador administration is unsustainable and non-transformative, overshadowed by his vision of Mexico’s “Fourth Transformation”. …
Mexico and the Post-2015 Development Agenda
Contributions and Challenges
Häftad, 2018
1095 kr
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This book explores how and why Mexico’s approach to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) implementation with the López Obrador administration is unsustainable and non-transformative, overshadowed by his vision of Mexico’s “Fourth Transformation”. …
Living and Working in Poverty in Latin America
Trajectories of Children, Youth, and Adults
Av María Eugenia Rausky, Mariana Chaves
Inbunden, 2018
551 kr
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This edited volume studies the complex interrelation of poverty, work, and different stages in the life course, and how it contributes to the permanent existence of poverty and inequality in vulnerable groups in society. Mechanisms of productions and reproduction of these relationships are …
Regional Governance and Policy-Making in South America
Häftad, 2019
714 kr
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This book analyzes Latin American regional integration with a novel conceptual approach grounded in extensive field research. Using the UNASUR (Unión de Naciones Suramericanas) as a case study, the author investigates the process of policy-making in regional public policy fields in South America. …
Participatory Citizenship and Crisis in Contemporary Brazil
Av Valesca Lima
Inbunden, 2019
605 kr
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This book discusses the issues of citizen rights, governance and political crisis in Brazil. The project has a focus on “citizenship in times of crisis,” i.e., seeking to understand how citizenship rights have changed since the Brazilian political and economic crisis that started in 2014. Building …
Political Economy of Agrarian Change in Latin America
Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay
Inbunden, 2019
932 kr
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This book makes an original contribution to the discussion about agro-food exporting countries’ governmental policy. It presents a historicized and internationally contextualized exploration of the political economy of agrarian change in three Latin American countries: Argentina, Praguay, and …
Political Economy of Agrarian Change in Latin America
Argentina, Paraguay and Uruguay
Häftad, 2020
660 kr
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This book makes an original contribution to the discussion about agro-food exporting countries’ governmental policy. It presents a historicized and internationally contextualized exploration of the political economy of agrarian change in three Latin American countries: Argentina, Praguay, and …
International Intervention Instruments against Corruption in Central America
Inbunden, 2020
551 kr
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This book analyzes the innovative international intervention instruments against corruption in Central America called Hybrid Anticorruption Agencies or HACAS. The author aims to disclose and explain the decision of the United Nations and the Organization of American States to promote, separately …
International Intervention Instruments against Corruption in Central America
Häftad, 2021
551 kr
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This book analyzes the innovative international intervention instruments against corruption in Central America called Hybrid Anticorruption Agencies or HACAS. The author aims to disclose and explain the decision of the United Nations and the Organization of American States to promote, separately …
Consolidating Economic Governance in Latin America
Inbunden, 2021
1313 kr
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This book explains how Latin American countries consolidate economic governance after serious disruptions to their formal and informal policy making routines. It asserts that the process of institutional change that started as a result of such disruptions resulted in complementary institutions, …
Consolidating Economic Governance in Latin America
Häftad, 2022
1313 kr
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This book explains how Latin American countries consolidate economic governance after serious disruptions to their formal and informal policy making routines. It asserts that the process of institutional change that started as a result of such disruptions resulted in complementary institutions, …
Rural Latin America in Transition
Development and Change in Mexico and Venezuela
Av Ray Watters
Inbunden, 2021
1313 kr
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This book provides an in-depth and broad study on rural Latin America over a 60-year period. Using a case study approach of Mexico and Venezuela, peasants and lower rural classes are examined at the local, meso and national levels. Additionally, the study analyzes government policies, development, …
Rural Latin America in Transition
Development and Change in Mexico and Venezuela
Av Ray Watters
Häftad, 2022
1313 kr
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This book provides an in-depth and broad study on rural Latin America over a 60-year period. Using a case study approach of Mexico and Venezuela, peasants and lower rural classes are examined at the local, meso and national levels. Additionally, the study analyzes government policies, development, …
Decline of Labor Unions in Mexico during the Neoliberal Period
Inbunden, 2021
1204 kr
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This book examines the most significant factors accounting for the decline of union density during the neoliberal period, focusing on the case of Mexico. Union density, which reflects the representation of labor unions in the employed labor force, is one of the main indicators of union strength. …
Decline of Labor Unions in Mexico during the Neoliberal Period
Häftad, 2022
878 kr
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This book examines the most significant factors accounting for the decline of union density during the neoliberal period, focusing on the case of Mexico. Union density, which reflects the representation of labor unions in the employed labor force, is one of the main indicators of union strength. …
Labor Contestation at Walmart Brazil
Limits of Global Diffusion in Latin America
Av Scott B. Martin, João Paulo Cândia Veiga m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
769 kr
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This book explores how and why the labor practices of the world’s largest employer, supermarket giant Walmart, were contested by unions and government regulators as it expanded to Latin America starting in the 1990s. With an in-depth case study of Brazil, and a comparative chapter examining …
Global Governance of the Environment, Indigenous Peoples and the Rights of Nature
Extractive Industries in the Ecuadorian Amazon
Inbunden, 2022
1313 kr
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This book explores the obstacles facing indigenous communities, non-governmental organizations, governments, and international institutions in their attempts to protect the cultures of indigenous peoples and the world’s remaining rainforests.Indigenous peoples are essential as guardians of the …
Global Governance of the Environment, Indigenous Peoples and the Rights of Nature
Extractive Industries in the Ecuadorian Amazon
Häftad, 2023
1313 kr
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This book explores the obstacles facing indigenous communities, non-governmental organizations, governments, and international institutions in their attempts to protect the cultures of indigenous peoples and the world’s remaining rainforests.Indigenous peoples are essential as guardians of the …
Mexico and the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda
Unsustainable and Non-Transformative
Inbunden, 2023
497 kr
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This book explores how and why Mexico’s approach to the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) implementation with the López Obrador administration is unsustainable and non-transformative, overshadowed by his vision of Mexico’s “Fourth Transformation”. …
Brazil’s International Status and Recognition as an Emerging Power
Inconsistencies and Complexities
Inbunden, 2024
1422 kr
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This book focusses on the intersubjective character of status in order to understand the degree to which Brazil has been able to achieve an increase in its global status. Buarque compares the long-standing ambitions of Brazilian foreign policy elites with external perspectives of observers in …
Brazil’s International Status and Recognition as an Emerging Power
Inconsistencies and Complexities
Häftad, 2025
1422 kr
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This book focusses on the intersubjective character of status in order to understand the degree to which Brazil has been able to achieve an increase in its global status. Buarque compares the long-standing ambitions of Brazilian foreign policy elites with external perspectives of observers in …
Varieties of Subnational Debt Management and Governance in Mexico
Inbunden, 2025
878 kr
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This book analyses debt management in subnational governments in Mexico via quantitative and qualitative methods of research. Particularly, the project initiates the much-needed discussions on the role that subnational governments in Mexico can play in the financing of infrastructure, as well as …
Widening the Scope of Environmental Policies in North America
Towards Blue Approaches
Inbunden, 2017
1508 kr
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This edited volume provides a variety of insights into the context in which ocean and wetlands policy is placed at the sub-continental level. The governments of Mexico, Canada, and United States of America have recognized the importance of conserving, protecting, and enhancing the environment in …
Protecting Human Rights Defenders in Latin America
A Legal and Socio-Political Analysis of Brazil
Inbunden, 2017
1128 kr
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This book offers a legal and socio-political analysis of the Brazilian Program for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders. Discussing Colombian, Guatemalan and Mexican experiences, it fills a gap in the literature regarding Latin American public policy by investigating the creation, work, …
Widening the Scope of Environmental Policies in North America
Towards Blue Approaches
Häftad, 2018
1508 kr
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This edited volume provides a variety of insights into the context in which ocean and wetlands policy is placed at the sub-continental level. The governments of Mexico, Canada, and United States of America have recognized the importance of conserving, protecting, and enhancing the environment in …
Protecting Human Rights Defenders in Latin America
A Legal and Socio-Political Analysis of Brazil
Häftad, 2018
1128 kr
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This book offers a legal and socio-political analysis of the Brazilian Program for the Protection of Human Rights Defenders. Discussing Colombian, Guatemalan and Mexican experiences, it fills a gap in the literature regarding Latin American public policy by investigating the creation, work, …
Organized Crime, Fear and Peacebuilding in Mexico
Inbunden, 2018
605 kr
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The book focuses on the psychosocial effects that organized crime related violence has produced in Mexico. It connects one of the major worries of our times – terrorism – with the conditions of peacelessness that prevail in Mexico. Specifically, the project explores the role played by fear as a …
Regional Governance and Policy-Making in South America
Inbunden, 2018
714 kr
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This book analyzes Latin American regional integration with a novel conceptual approach grounded in extensive field research. Using the UNASUR (Unión de Naciones Suramericanas) as a case study, the author investigates the process of policy-making in regional public policy fields in South America. …
