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Stuffing the Ballot Boxby Fabrice E. Lehoucq; Ivan Molina; Peter Lange; Robert H. Bates; Ellen Comisso; Peter Hall; Joel Migdal; Helen Milner
Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 46.00Stuffing the Ballot Box is a pioneering study of electoral fraud and reform. It focuses on Costa Rica, a country where parties gradually transformed a fraud-ridden political system into one renowned for its stability and fair elections by the mid-twentieth century. more...
Soldier and the State in South Americaby Patricio Silva; Peter Flynn; Philip O'Brien
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2001; US$ 130.00After a long era of military rule, the South American nations have been working on the construction of a new democratic order. This book provides a long-term historical assessment of the main features of civil-military relations in this region, from independence in the early nineteenth century to the current process of democratic consolidation, with special attention to the cases of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Peru. more...
Decentralizing the Stateby Kathleen O'Neill
Cambridge University Press 2005; US$ 28.00Decentralization is one of the most dramatic political and economic trends in the last few decades. This book seeks to address its causes, exploring decentralizing reforms in Bolivia, Columbia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela - five unexpected decentralizers. more...
The Romance of Democracyby Matthew C. Gutmann
University of California Press 2002; US$ 15.95The Romance of Democracy gives a unique insider perspective on contemporary Mexico by examining the meaning of democracy in the lives of working-class residents in Mexico City today. A highly absorbing and vividly detailed ethnographic study of popular politics and official subjugation, the book provides a detailed, bottom-up exploration of what men and women think about national and neighborhood democracy, what their dreams are for a better society, and how these dreams play out in their daily lives. Based on extensive fieldwork in the same neighborhood he discussed in his acclaimed book The Meanings of Macho, Matthew C. Gutmann now explores the possibilities for political and social change in the world's most populous city. In the process... more...
Political Crises, Social Conflict and Economic Developmentby A. Solimano
Edward Elgar Publishing 2005; US$ 40.00The contributors to this authoritative volume analyze the impact of political crises and social conflict on economic performance in the Andean region of Latin America. The blend of theory and case studies is also relevant for understanding other complex societies in the developing world and transition economies. more...
Remaking The Labour Partyby Tudor Jones
Taylor & Francis 1996; US$ 52.95Remaking the Labour Party examines the development of revisionist thought in the Labour Party from the 1950s to Tony Blair's successful attempt to rewrite Clause Four in April 1995. more...
Courting Democracy in Mexicoby Todd A. Eisenstadt
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 39.00Courting Democracy in Mexico is perhaps the most comprehensive explanation to date of Mexico's gradual transition to democracy, written from a novel perspective which pits opposition activists' post-electoral conflicts against their usage of regime-constructed electoral courts at the center of the democratization process. more...
Patterns of Legislative Politicsby Scott Morgenstern
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 79.00Using the United States as a basis of comparison, this book makes extensive use of roll call data to explore legislative politics in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Uruguay while focusing on the patterns of the role of candidate nominations, other aspects of the electoral system, and the legislators' ideological alignments. more...
Free Market Democracy and the Chilean and Mexican Countrysideby Marcus J. Kurtz
Cambridge University Press 2004; US$ 44.00This book examines the relationship between free markets and democracy. It demonstrates how the implementation of even very painful free market economic reforms in Chile and Mexico have helped to consolidate democratic politics without at the same time engendering a backlash against either reform or democratization. more...
Language, Citizenship and Identity in Quebecby Leigh Oakes
Palgrave Macmillan Ltd. 2007; US$ 100.00Globalization is calling for different conceptualizations of belonging within culturally diverse communities. This book takes Quebec as a case study and examines how it fosters a sense of belonging through a common citizenship with French as the key element. more...