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  • Latin American Politics and Society

    by Gerardo L. Munck, Juan Pablo Luna ...
    Taking a fresh thematic approach to politics and society in Latin America, this introductory textbook analyzes the region's past and present in an accessible and engaging style well-suited to undergraduate students. The book provides historical insights into modern states and critical issues they are facing, with insightful analyses that are supported by empirical data, maps and timelines. Drawing ... Read more

    $46.99 CAD

  • Measuring Democracy

    A Bridge between Scholarship and Politics

    by Gerardo L. Munck ...
    Series series Democratic Transition and Consolidation
    Although democracy is a widely held value, concrete measurement of it is elusive. Gerardo L. Munck’s constructive assessment of the methods used to measure democracies promises to bring order to the debate in academia and in practice.Drawing on his years of academic research on democracy and measurement and his practical experience evaluating democratic practices for the United Nations and the ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD

  • Passion, Craft, and Method in Comparative Politics

    by Gerardo L. Munck, Richard Snyder ...
    In the first collection of interviews with the most prominent scholars in comparative politics since World War II, Gerardo L. Munck and Richard Snyder trace key developments in the field during the twentieth century.Organized around a broad set of themes—intellectual formation and training; major works and ideas; the craft and tools of research; colleagues, collaborators, and students; and the ... Read more

    $54.99 CAD

  • A Middle-Quality Institutional Trap: Democracy and State Capacity in Latin America

    by Sebastián L. Mazzuca, Gerardo L. Munck ...
    Series series Elements in Politics and Society in Latin America
    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 quandary. States can make democracy, but so too can democracy make States. Thus, the starting point ... Read more

    $23.99 CAD

  • Critical Junctures and Historical Legacies

    Insights and Methods for Comparative Social Science

    Edited by David Collier, Gerardo L. Munck ...
    Over the past 50 years, scholars across the social sciences have employed critical juncture analysis to understand how social orders are created, become entrenched, and change. In this book, leading scholars from several disciplines offer the first coordinated effort to define this field of research, assess its theoretical and methodological foundations, and use a critical assessment of current ... Read more

    $45.99 CAD

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  • After the Pink Tide

    Corporate State Formation and New Egalitarianisms in Latin America

    Edited by Alessandro Zagato, Marina Gold ...
    Series Book 1 - Egalitarianism
    The left-wing Pink Tide movement that swept across Latin America seems now to be overturned, as a new wave of free-market thinkers emerge across the continent. This book analyses the emergence of corporate power within Latin America and the response of egalitarian movements across the continent trying to break open the constraints of the state. Through an ethnographically grounded and localized ... Read more

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  • Becoming Black Political Subjects

    Movements and Ethno-Racial Rights in Colombia and Brazil

    by Tianna Paschel ...
    After decades of denying racism and underplaying cultural diversity, Latin American states began adopting transformative ethno-racial legislation in the late 1980s. In addition to symbolic recognition of indigenous peoples and black populations, governments in the region created a more pluralistic model of citizenship and made significant reforms in the areas of land, health, education, and ... Read more

    $40.99 CAD

  • Democracy in Latin America

    Between Hope and Despair

    Translated by Scott Mainwaring ...
    by Ignacio Walker ...
    Series series Kellogg Institute Series on Democracy and Development
    In 2009, Ignacio Walker—scholar, politician, and one of Latin America’s leading public intellectuals—published La Democracia en América Latina. Now available in English, with a new prologue, and significantly revised and updated for an English-speaking audience, Democracy in Latin America: Between Hope and Despair contributes to the necessary and urgent task of exploring both the possibilities and ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Globalization on the Ground

    Postbellum Guatemalan Democracy and Development

    by Christopher Chase-Dunn, John A. Booth, Stephen G. Bunker, A Douglas Kincaid, Susan Manning, Alejandro Portes, Julia Richards, Michael Richards0, Gert Rosenthal1, José Serech2, Edelberto Torres3, Kay B. Warren4, William I. Robinson5 ...
    This book presents research, analysis, and reflections on the major issues of Guatemalan development and democracy: the role of the military, the involvement of Mayan communities in national development, the possible emergence of more inclusive political institutions and the roles of international forces and agencies in Guatemalan social change. The chapters in this book are written by some of the ... Read more

    $64.99 CAD

  • Comparative Public Policy in Latin America

    by Jordi Diez, Susan Franceschet ...
    Series series Studies in Comparative Political Economy and Public Policy
    This pioneering collection offers a comprehensive investigation into how to study public policy in Latin America. While this region exhibits many similarities with the North American and European countries that have traditionally served as sources for generating public policy knowledge, Latin American countries are also different in many fundamental ways. As such, existing policy concepts and ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Falling Behind

    Explaining the Development Gap Between Latin America and the United States

    Edited by Francis Fukuyama ...
    In 1700, Latin America and British North America were roughly equal in economic terms. Yet over the next three centuries, the United States gradually pulled away from Latin America, and today the gap between the two is huge. Why did this happen? Was it culture? Geography? Economic policies? Natural resources? Differences in political development? The question has occupied scholars for decades, and ... Read more

    $34.99 CAD

  • Thinking Like a Political Scientist

    A Practical Guide to Research Methods

    by Christopher Howard ...
    Series series Chicago Guides to Writing, Editing, and Publishing
    "A compelling case for transforming how research methods are taught to undergraduate students of political science." — London School of Economics Review of BooksEach year, tens of thousands of students who are interested in politics go through a rite of passage: they take a course in research methods. Many find the subject to be boring or confusing, and with good reason. Most of the standard books ... Read more

    $27.99 CAD or Free with Kobo Plus