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“alejandro poire”

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  • Toward Mexico's Democratization

    Parties, Campaigns, Elections and Public Opinion

    Edited by Jorge I. Dominguez, Alejandro Poire ...
    Recent elections in Mexico have seen dramatic changes in public opinion toward political parties. Focusing on the elections of 1994 and 1997, the book evaluates campaign strategies, voting habits, party loyalty and the decline of the Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). It begins by situating the transformation of Mexico's parties in historical context, then goes on to consider the role of ... Read more

    $73.99 CAD

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  • Brazil in Transition

    Beliefs, Leadership, and Institutional Change

    by Bernardo Mueller, Carlos Pereira, Lee J. Alston, Marcus André Melo ...
    Series series The Princeton Economic History of the Western World
    Brazil is the world's sixth-largest economy, and for the first three-quarters of the twentieth century was one of the fastest-growing countries in the world. While the country underwent two decades of unrelenting decline from 1975 to 1994, the economy has rebounded dramatically. How did this nation become an emerging power? Brazil in Transition looks at the factors behind why this particular ... Read more

    $59.99 CAD

  • Decentralization and Popular Democracy

    Governance from Below in Bolivia

    by Jean-Paul Faguet ...
    Bolivia decentralized in an effort to deepen democracy, improve public services, and make government more accountable. Unlike many countries, Bolivia succeeded. Over the past generation, public investment shifted dramatically toward primary services and resource distribution became far more equitable, partly due to the creation of new local governments. Many municipalities responded to ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • The Deadlock of Democracy in Brazil

    by Barry Ames ...
    Series series Interests, Identities, And Institutions In Comparative Politics
    Many countries have experimented with different electoral rules in order either to increase involvement in the political system or make it easier to form stable governments. Barry Ames explores this important topic in one of the world's most populous and important democracies, Brazil. This book locates one of the sources of Brazil's "crisis of governance" in the nation's unique electoral system, a ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • The State Of State Reform In Latin America

    by Lora Eduardo ...
    Latin America suffered a profound state crisis in the 1980s, which prompted not only the wave of macroeconomic and deregulation reforms known as the Washington Consensus, but also a wide variety of institutional or "second generation" reforms. The State of State Reform in Latin America reviews and assesses the outcomes of these less studied institutional reforms. This book examines four major ... Read more

    $28.99 CAD

  • Brazil

    Reversal of Fortune

    by Alfred P. Montero ...
    Once deemed a “dysfunctional” democracy with a “feckless” set of political institutions and a “drunk” economy, today’s Brazil has undergone a complete reversal of fortune. Now in its third decade of democracy, the economy is blossoming and large-scale development projects are underway, including the exploitation of massive, off-shore oil reserves, a nationwide effort to modernize infrastructure, ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • The Political Economy of Natural Resources and Development

    From neoliberalism to resource nationalism

    Edited by Paul A. Haslam, Pablo Heidrich ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Development Economics
    The Political Economy of Resources and Development offers a unique and multidisciplinary perspective on how the commodity boom of the mid-2000s reshaped the model of development throughout Latin America and elsewhere in the developing world. Governments increased taxes and royalties on the resource sector, the nationalization of foreign firms returned to the mainstream economic policy agenda, and ... Read more

    $97.99 CAD

  • Peru: Country Program Evaluation for the World Bank Group 2003-2009

    by World Bank ...
    This Peru Country Program Evaluation for the World Bank Group 2003-2009 is part of IEG?s country program evaluation series. To date IEG?s in-depth country evaluations have comprised IEG-WB Country Assistance Evaluations (CAEs) and IEG-IFC Country Impact Reviews (CIRs). Both the CAEs and CIRs have involved comprehensive evaluations of the respective institutions? activities in a country. In a pilot ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Forbearance as Redistribution

    The Politics of Informal Welfare in Latin America

    by Alisha C. Holland ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
    Why do governments tolerate the violation of their own laws and regulations? Conventional wisdom is that governments cannot enforce their laws. Forbearance as Redistribution challenges the standard interpretation by showing that politicians choose not to enforce laws to distribute resources and win elections. Alisha Holland demonstrates that this forbearance towards activities such as squatting ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • New Order and Progress

    Development and Democracy in Brazil

    by Ben Ross Schneider ...
    Ben Ross Schneider's volume, New Order and Progress takes a thorough look at the political economy of Brazil. The distinctive perspective of the 11 chapters is historical, comparative, and theoretical. Collectively, the chapters offer sobering insight into why Brazil has not been the rising economic star of the BRIC that many predicted it would be, but also documents the gains that Brazil has made ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD

  • The Oxford Handbook of Latin American Political Economy

    Edited by Javier Santiso, Jeff Dayton-Johnson ...
    Series series Oxford Handbooks
    Latin America's recent development performance calls for a multidisciplinary analytical tool kit. This handbook accordingly adopts a political-economy perspective to understand Latin American economies. This perspective is not new to the region; indeed, this volume consciously follows the approach pioneered by political economist Albert O. Hirschman a half century ago. But the nature of the ... Read more

    $163.99 CAD

  • Contesting Trade in Central America

    Market Reform and Resistance

    by Rose J. Spalding ...
    In 2004, the United States, five Central American countries, and the Dominican Republic signed the Central American Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA), signaling the region’s commitment to a neoliberal economic model. For many, however, neoliberalism had lost its luster as the new century dawned, and resistance movements began to gather force. Contesting Trade in Central America is the first book-length ... Read more

    $35.99 CAD