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Reconquering Canada
D & M Publishers 2012; US$ 24.95Fourteen Quebec federalists dare to re-imagine the province and its defining role within a stronger Canada Quebecers have been debating their future relative to Canada since before Confederation, though the discussions have been most heated during the past four decades. In this time the debate has gone around in circles. Now, instead of presenting... more...
Democracy Undone
Bitingduck Press 2012; US$ 4.99How the 2000 and 2004 elections were stolen, and how Americans must be vigilant in 2012. more...
Citizenship, Participation and Democracy
Palgrave Macmillan 1998; US$ 159.00A comparison of the process of democratization in Chile and Argentina. Utilising models of citizenship, the book examines the impact of constitutional change, institutional development and participation in both political parties and social movements from the perspective of the citizen. It finds that citizen participation, once dominated by the welfare... more...
Party-System Collapse
Stanford University Press 2012; US$ 60.00Most party systems are relatively stable over time. Yet in the 1980s and 1990s, established party systems in Peru and Venezuela broke down, leading to the elections of outsider Alberto Fujimori and anti-party populist Hugo Chavez. Focusing on these two cases, this book explores the causes of systemic collapse. To date, scholars have pointed to economic... more...
Hugo Chávez and the Bolivarian Revolution
Manchester University Press 2009; US$ 95.00The emergence of Hugo Chávez in Venezuela has revived analysis of one of Latin Americas most enduring political traditions populism. Yet Latin America has changed since the heyday of Perón and Evita. Globalisation, implemented through harsh IMF inspired Structural Adjustment Programmes, has taken hold throughout the region and... more...
Populism in Venezuela
Taylor and Francis 2012; US$ 130.00Populism in Venezuela analyses the emergence, formation, reproduction and resistance to a left-wing populist project in a major world oil producer. For readers who seek to understand the historical, economical and sociological contexts that gave rise to a 38 year-old mestizo-mulato Lieutenant Colonel who stormed the presidential palace in a bloody... more...
Decentralization and Reform in Latin America
Edward Elgar Publishing 2013; US$ 40.00Decentralisation and Reform in Latin America analyses the process of intergovernmental reform in Latin America in the last two decades and presents a number of emerging issues. These include the impacts of decentralization and the response of countries in the region to challenge such as social cohesion, interregional and interpersonal disparities,... more...
The Soldier and the State in South America
Palgrave Macmillan 2001; US$ 145.00After 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... more...
Political Crises, Social Conflict and Economic Development
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...
Free Market Democracy and the Chilean and Mexican Countryside
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...









