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  • The Rectal Gland of the Shark: A Model for the Epithelial Transport of Chloride and Its Control

    by Patricio Silva, David H. Evans, Katherine C. Spokes ...
    Series series Biomedical and Life Sciences (R0)
    This book provides a detailed account of the intricate mechanisms and regulation of epithelial chloride transport, offering valuable insights into the regulation of salt balance in various vertebrate epithelial tissues. Over sixty years ago, J. Wendell Burger discovered that the rectal gland of elasmobranchs was the extrarenal organ responsible for excreting the salt gained by the animals. Since ... Read more

    $192.99 CAD

  • In the Name of Reason

    Technocrats and Politics in Chile

    by Patricio Silva ...
    The major role played by a technocratic elite in Chilean politics was perhaps most controversial when the “Chicago Boys” ran the economic program of Augusto Pinochet’s military regime from 1973 to 1990. But technocrats did not suddenly come upon the scene when Pinochet engineered the coup against Salvador Allende’s government. They had long been important contributors to Chile’s approach to the ... Read more

    $32.99 CAD

  • Public Probity and Corruption in Chile

    by Patricio Silva ...
    Series series Routledge Corruption and Anti-Corruption Studies
    In most Latin American countries, key officials and political figures have been involved in big corruption scandals in the last decade, leading to a rigorous academic debate on the possible socio-economic, political and cultural factors responsible for corrupt practices across the region. This book takes a different approach by focusing on Chile, which shows the lowest levels of corruption in the ... Read more

    $88.99 CAD

  • Social Revolt in Chile

    Triggering Factors and Possible Outcomes

    Edited by Carlos Peña, Patricio Silva ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Latin American Development
    This book investigates why Chile suddenly confronted a violent social revolt in October 2019, after almost thirty years of political stability, during which time the country was broadly regarded as Latin America’s most successful nation.Since democratic restoration in 1990, Chile’s relatively high levels of political stability, increasing prosperity and social modernisation have stood out in a ... Read more

    $42.99 CAD

  • The Boric Government in Chile

    Between Refoundation and Reform

    Edited by Carlos Peña, Patricio Silva ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Latin American Development
    This book analyses the victory of Gabriel Boric in Chile during the presidential elections of December 2021. He brought the radical left into power, after three decades of centre- left and right- wing governments. In order to explain this abrupt political mutation in the country, the book explores a series of fast and deep social and cultural transformations experienced in the country in the last ... Read more

    $85.99 CAD

  • Reclaiming Latin America

    Experiments in Radical Social Democracy

    by Ernesto Vivares, Francisco Dominguez, John Crabtree, Valeria Guarneros-Meza, Guy Burton, Julia Buxton, Sara Motta-Mera, Leonardo Diaz-Echenique, Sue Branford, Patricio Silva, Javier Ozorio ...
    Reclaiming Latin America is a one-stop guide to the revival of social democratic and socialist politics across the region.At the end of the Cold War, and through decades of neoliberal domination and the 'Washington Consensus' it seemed that the left could do nothing but beat a ragged retreat in Latin America. Yet this book looks at the new opportunities that sprang up through electoral politics ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Right-Wing Politics in the New Latin America

    Reaction and Revolt

    by Marcos Costa Lima, Guy Burton, Ms Grace Livingstone, Leonardo Diaz-Echenique, Peter Lambert, Alexander Dawson, Patricio Silva, Andreas Tsolakis, Diane Raby, Andrew Higgingbottom, Francisco Durand ...
    The focus for students of Latin America in the past decade has been on the political forces of the left and the so-called 'pink tide' presidencies attempting to bring about social and economic change in the region. However, there has been far less attention paid to the rightwing political forces resisting such change. Such opposition is being orchestrated by political parties, business, the ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

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  • The Social Life of Economic Inequalities in Contemporary Latin America

    Decades of Change

    Edited by Margit Ystanes, Iselin Åsedotter Strønen ...
    Series series Social Sciences (R0)
    This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.This edited volume examines how economic processes have worked upon social lives and social realities in Latin America during the past decades. Through tracing the effects of the neoliberal epoch into the era of the so-called pink tide, the book seeks to understand to what extent the turn to the left at the start of the millennium managed to ... Read more

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  • Democracy and the Public Space in Latin America

    by Leonardo Avritzer ...
    This is a bold new study of the recent emergence of democracy in Latin America. Leonardo Avritzer shows that traditional theories of democratization fall short in explaining this phenomenon. Scholars have long held that the postwar stability of Western Europe reveals that restricted democracy, or "democratic elitism," is the only realistic way to guard against forces such as the mass mobilizations ... Read more

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