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Challenging the State
Cambridge University Press 1996; US$ 44.00This book examines the development of Latin America and Africa in the face of challenging political and economic crises. more...
Stuffing the Ballot Box
Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 47.00Stuffing 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...
Sustaining Abundance
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 26.00This book represents the first comprehensive study evaluating the comparative performance of national environmental policies since the beginning of the modern environmental era. It lays out four major explanations of environmental performance and evaluates them using an advanced statistical analysis of data from seventeen wealthy countries. more...
Legislative Politics in Latin America
Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 30.00This study explores legislative politics in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico. Instead of beginning with an assumption that these legislatures are either rubber-stamps or obstructionist bodies, the chapters provide a fresh analytical approach to describe and explain the role of these representative bodies in these consolidating democracies. more...
Regressive Taxation and the Welfare State
Cambridge University Press 2003; US$ 34.00Government size has become the most important policy difference between the left and right in postwar politics but the formation of the government's funding base has not been explored. Junko Kato finds that the differentiation of tax revenue structure is path dependent upon the shift to regressive taxation. more...
Imagined Economies
Cambridge University Press 2004; US$ 39.00This book analyzes the economic bases of regional sovereignty movements in the Russian Federation from 1990-1993. The book addresses the literature on both nationalism and political economy and provides a novel analytic framework for explaining the origin of economic interests and the development of sovereignty movements. more...
State in Society
Cambridge University Press 2001; US$ 28.00The essays in this book trace the development of Joel Migdal's 'state-in-society' approach. This approach illuminates how power is exercised around the world, and how and when patterns of power change. The essays situate the approach within the classic literature in political science, sociology, and related disciplines. more...
Labor Unions, Partisan Coalitions, and Market Reforms in Latin America
Cambridge University Press 2001; US$ 27.00Due to economic crises, labor parties followed economic policies that hurt labor unions during the 1990s, such as trade liberalization and privatization. This book explains why labor unions resisted on some occasions, and submitted on others, and the consequences of their actions by studying three countries: Argentina, Mexico, and Venezuela. more...
Mandates and Democracy
Cambridge University Press 2001; US$ 24.00If politicians want to be reelected or see their party reelected at the end of their term, why would they impose unpopular policies? Susan Stokes develops a model of policy switches and tests it with statistical and qualitative data from Latin American elections over the last two decades. more...
Why Women Protest
Cambridge University Press 2002; US$ 25.00This book compares two ideologically opposed examples of women's movements in Chile: the movement against the democratically-elected government of President Salvador Allende and that against the dictatorship of General Augusto Pinochet. This book explains the similarities between these movements. more...









