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A Middle-Quality Institutional Trap: Democracy and State Capacity in Latin America
Av Sebastián L. Mazzuca, Gerardo L. Munck
Häftad, 2021
308 kr
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Latin America is currently caught in a middle-quality institutional trap, combining flawed democracies and low-to-medium capacity States. Yet, contrary to conventional wisdom, the sequence of development - Latin America has democratized before building capable States - does not explain the region's …
The Distributive Politics of Environmental Protection in Latin America and the Caribbean
Av Isabella Alcañiz, Ricardo A. Gutiérrez
Häftad, 2022
308 kr
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The study of environmental politics in Latin America and the Caribbean expands as conflicts stemming from the deterioration of the natural world increase. Yet this scholarship has not generated a broad research agenda similar to the ones that emerged around other key political phenomena. This …
The Circuit of Detachment in Chile
Understanding the Fate of a Neoliberal Laboratory
Häftad, 2022
302 kr
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This Element discusses the consequences on the social bond of the conjoint action of the economic and social model inspired by the premises of neoliberalism and of the powerful pressures for the democratization of social relations in Chilean society. It is based upon empirical research developed in …
The Political Economy of Segmented Expansion
Latin American Social Policy in the 2000s
Av Camila Arza, Rossana Castiglioni m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
317 kr
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The early 2000s were a period of social policy expansion in Latin America. New programs were created in healthcare, pensions, and social assistance, and previously excluded groups were incorporated into existing policies. What was the character of this social policy expansion? Why did the region …
The Indigenous Right to Self-Determination in Extractivist Economies
Häftad, 2023
406 kr
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International norms widely recognize the Indigenous right to self-determination by which Indigenous peoples define and purse their collective aspirations. Nevertheless, as progressive as legal frameworks might appear, in reality, few Indigenous communities enjoy this right and most remain …
The Politics of Social Protection During Times of Crisis
Av Merike Blofield, Jennifer Pribble m. fl.
Häftad, 2023
418 kr
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In 2020, as Latin American countries shuttered their economies, it became clear that effective lockdowns would require states to provide income support. In a region that has historically struggled to build systems of social protection, the effort to expand benefits was notable. Policies varied in …
Conservatives against the Tide
The Rise of the Argentine PRO in Comparative Perspective
Häftad, 2023
406 kr
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This volume in the Elements series addresses the success of conservative parties in non-authoritarian contexts in contemporary Latin America. It places the core case of Argentina's Republican Proposal (PRO) party in comparative perspective with Argentina's Recrear and with Colombia's Democratic …
Feminismos en América Latina
Redes anidadas por el derecho al aborto en México y Brasil
Av Gisela Zaremberg, Debora Rezende de Almeida
Häftad, 2024
308 kr
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Este Element analiza las características de los movimientos feministas actuales en América Latina y sus respuestas a las reacciones conservadoras. Para ello, nos enfocamos específicamente en el movimiento proaborto frente al contramovimiento antiaborto en México y Brasil. Para analizar los efectos …
La economía política de una expansión segmentada
Política social latinoamericana en la primera década del siglo XXI
Av Camila Arza, Rossana Castiglioni m. fl.
Häftad, 2024
308 kr
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Los primeros años del siglo XXI fueron un período de expansión de la política social en América Latina. Se crearon nuevos programas en salud, jubilaciones y pensiones, y asistencia social, y se incorporaron grupos previamente excluidos de las políticas existentes. ¿Cuál fue el carácter de esta …
Feminismos en América Latina
Redes anidadas por el derecho al aborto en México y Brasil
Av Gisela Zaremberg, Debora Rezende de Almeida
Inbunden, 2024
911 kr
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Este Element analiza las características de los movimientos feministas actuales en América Latina y sus respuestas a las reacciones conservadoras. Para ello, nos enfocamos específicamente en el movimiento proaborto frente al contramovimiento antiaborto en México y Brasil. Para analizar los efectos …
La economía política de una expansión segmentada
Política social latinoamericana en la primera década del siglo XXI
Av Camila Arza, Rossana Castiglioni m. fl.
Inbunden, 2024
911 kr
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Los primeros años del siglo XXI fueron un período de expansión de la política social en América Latina. Se crearon nuevos programas en salud, jubilaciones y pensiones, y asistencia social, y se incorporaron grupos previamente excluidos de las políticas existentes. ¿Cuál fue el carácter de esta …
Costly Opportunities
Social Mobility in Segregated Societies
Av María José Álvarez-Rivadulla
Inbunden, 2024
911 kr
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This Element investigates entrenched inequality in Latin America through a unique case of class integration in Colombian higher education. Examining a forgivable loan program benefiting 40,000 high-achieving individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds, the Element introduces 'gate opening' and …
Costly Opportunities
Social Mobility in Segregated Societies
Av María José Álvarez-Rivadulla
Häftad, 2024
308 kr
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This Element investigates entrenched inequality in Latin America through a unique case of class integration in Colombian higher education. Examining a forgivable loan program benefiting 40,000 high-achieving individuals from disadvantaged backgrounds, the Element introduces 'gate opening' and …
Parties and New Technologies in Latin America
Av Rafael Piñeiro-Rodríguez, Fernando Rosenblatt m. fl.
Häftad, 2025
308 kr
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This Element analyzes the incorporation of new information and communication technologies (ICTs) by different parties in Latin America to organize volunteers and mobilize supporters during elections. It assesses ICT-related changes in how parties recruit prospective candidates, collect information …
Parties and New Technologies in Latin America
Av Rafael Piñeiro-Rodríguez, Fernando Rosenblatt m. fl.
Inbunden, 2025
911 kr
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This Element analyzes the incorporation of new information and communication technologies (ICTs) by different parties in Latin America to organize volunteers and mobilize supporters during elections. It assesses ICT-related changes in how parties recruit prospective candidates, collect information …
Low-Cost Fashion
The Political Economy of Garment Production and Distribution in Latin America
Av Matías Dewey, André Vereta Nahoum
Inbunden, 2025
938 kr
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This Element analyses a fundamentally new regional configuration of the garment sector, covering much of South America. Based on ethnographic fieldwork and in-depth interviews with a wide range of actors, it examines two major circuits of informal production and distribution of affordable garments, …
Low-Cost Fashion
The Political Economy of Garment Production and Distribution in Latin America
Av Matías Dewey, André Vereta Nahoum
Häftad, 2025
291 kr
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This Element analyses a fundamentally new regional configuration of the garment sector, covering much of South America. Based on ethnographic fieldwork and in-depth interviews with a wide range of actors, it examines two major circuits of informal production and distribution of affordable garments, …
New Forms of Democratic Erosion in Latin America
Av Laura Gamboa, Rachel A. Schwartz
Häftad, 2026
282 kr
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This Element seeks to unpack the varied modalities of democratic erosion in Latin America by proposing a novel analytical framework that breaks down backsliding episodes into their constituent parts: (1) the actors that promote autocratization and those that resist it, (2) the strategies that …
New Forms of Democratic Erosion in Latin America
Av Laura Gamboa, Rachel A. Schwartz
Inbunden, 2026
911 kr
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This Element seeks to unpack the varied modalities of democratic erosion in Latin America by proposing a novel analytical framework that breaks down backsliding episodes into their constituent parts: (1) the actors that promote autocratization and those that resist it, (2) the strategies that …
Neo-extractivism in Latin America
Socio-environmental Conflicts, the Territorial Turn, and New Political Narratives
Häftad, 2019
308 kr
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This Element analyses the political dynamics of neo-extractivism in Latin America. It discusses the critical concepts of neo-extractivism and the commodity consensus and the various phases of socio-environmental conflict, proposing an eco-territorial approach that uncovers the escalation of …
Innovating Democracy?
The Means and Ends of Citizen Participation in Latin America
Häftad, 2023
308 kr
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Since democratization, Latin America has experienced a surge in new forms of citizen participation. Yet there is still little comparative knowledge on these so-called democratic innovations. This Element seeks to fill this gap. Drawing on a new dataset with 3,744 cases from 18 countries between …
The Post-Partisans
Anti-Partisans, Anti-Establishment Identifiers, and Apartisans in Latin America
Häftad, 2022
308 kr
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Where party identification is in decay or in flux, alternative political identifications have gained centrality. In this Element, the author develops a typology of post-partisan political identities: alternative ways in which rejection of or the absence of partisan politics are defining political …
Understanding Institutional Weakness
Power and Design in Latin American Institutions
Av Daniel M. Brinks, Steven Levitsky m. fl.
Häftad, 2019
308 kr
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This Element introduces the concept of institutional weakness, arguing that weakness or strength is a function of the extent to which an institution actually matters to social, economic or political outcomes. It then presents a typology of three forms of institutional weakness: insignificance, in …
Uneven Trajectories
Latin American Societies in the Twenty-First Century
Av Gabriela Benza, Gabriel Kessler
Häftad, 2020
308 kr
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This Element presents the main characteristics of the current social structure in Latin America. It focuses on demographic trends, migration, families, incomes, education, health and housing, and examine the general policy trends for all of these issues. The main questions are: what is the social …
Dependency in the Twenty-First Century?
The Political Economy of China-Latin America Relations
Häftad, 2020
308 kr
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The way external forces influence political and economic outcomes in developing countries is an ongoing concern of scholars and policymakers. In the 1970s and 1980s, dependency analysis was a popular way of approaching this topic, but it later fell into disrepute. This Element argues that it may be …
The Politics of Transitional Justice in Latin America
Power, Norms, and Capacity Building
Av Ezequiel A. Gonzalez-Ocantos
Häftad, 2020
308 kr
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How has Latin America pioneered the field of transitional justice (TJ)? Do approaches vary across the region? This Element describes Latin American innovations in trials and truth commissions, and evaluates two influential models that explain variation in TJ outcomes: the Huntingtonian and Justice …
Beyond 'plata o plomo'
Drugs and State Reconfiguration in Colombia
Häftad, 2022
308 kr
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This Element introduces the concept of oligopoly of coercion to interpretate the interaction between drug trafficking and reconfiguration of the state in Colombia. Three elements are central to this interpretation: corruption in oligopolies of coercion must be understood as a payment by drug …
Feminisms in Latin America
Pro-choice Nested Networks in Mexico and Brazil
Av Gisela Zaremberg, Débora Rezende de Almeida
Häftad, 2022
308 kr
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This Element analyzes the features of current feminist movements in Latin America and their responses to conservative reactions. For this, it focuses on the pro-choice movement vis-...-vis the anti-abortion countermovement in Mexico and Brazil. It offers a relational approach embracing the dynamics …
The Politics of LGBTQ Rights Expansion in Latin America and the Caribbean
Häftad, 2022
308 kr
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The first section of this Element reviews the history of LGBTQ rights in the region since the 1960s. The second section reviews explanations for the expansion of rights and setbacks, especially since the mid 2000s. Explanations are organized according to three themes: (1) the (re-)emergence of a …
