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View article: Kaleidoscopic Patterns of Politics in Latin America
Kaleidoscopic Patterns of Politics in Latin America Open
Latin America continues to provide a fertile hunting ground for students of comparative politics. There is plentiful variation between, within, and across countries and subsectors. Yet, there are also shared scope conditions, cultural and …
View article: A jumble of partial democratizing initiatives in mid-century Latin America
A jumble of partial democratizing initiatives in mid-century Latin America Open
The "second wave" metaphor is a convenient but somewhat misleading approximation to how the republics of Latin America adjusted to the post-1945 balance of world forces. In a short period the region experienced a reverberating jumble of de…
View article: Referendums about Presidential Mandates
Referendums about Presidential Mandates Open
A particularly sensitive issue in Latin America concerns changes to presidential mandates, be it because presidents want to remain in power even if the rules do not allow them, or because they face early termination of their mandates. Mech…
View article: Dynasties, Double-Dealings, and Delinquencies
Dynasties, Double-Dealings, and Delinquencies Open
This chapter discusses Mexico's subnational democratization process as an entangled process where formal institutions become entangled with informal rules, structures, and practices to produce diverse outcomes. It analyses three major doma…
View article: The Authoritarian Temptation, and Its Radical Left Expressions
The Authoritarian Temptation, and Its Radical Left Expressions Open
No political regime can be entirely immune from authoritarian temptations. This article focuses on the distinctive sources and dynamics that apply to post-revolutionary regimes. To prevail in bringing about radical and irreversible change …
View article: The Politics of Protest Processes: A Portrayal
The Politics of Protest Processes: A Portrayal Open
This integrated overview of a dynamic field of study covers two main areas. The first half concerns the main internal dimensions of protest movements- their scope and variability, their ideational foundations, and their dynamics, including…
View article: Regional organizations and democratic conditionality: Family resemblances and shaming
Regional organizations and democratic conditionality: Family resemblances and shaming Open
The six major regional organizations (ROs) covered in this special issue all originated prior to the rise of liberal internationalism, and were repurposed by it. After 1989 they converged towards a common discourse on democratic conditiona…
View article: Preface
Preface Open
As capital moves ever more easily across territorial boundaries, it draws national financial systems into an international web.In the 1980s capital flows also seemed to spread monetarist economic ideology-from Volcker's Federal Reserve to …
View article: Cuba: heading for a new development and political model – an introduction
Cuba: heading for a new development and political model – an introduction Open
Cuba, this iconic revolutionary island which has brought so much hope to the Third World and, at one point, worry for a nuclear World War III, is going through a process of change never seen since Fidel Castro led his revolutionary forces …
View article: KURT WEYLAND: Making Waves: Democratic Contention in Europe and Latin America since the Revolutions of 1848, Cambridge;New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014.
KURT WEYLAND: Making Waves: Democratic Contention in Europe and Latin America since the Revolutions of 1848, Cambridge;New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014. Open
KURT WEYLAND: Making Waves: Democratic Contention in Europeand Latin America since the Revolutions of 1848, Cambridge;New York:Cambridge University Press, 2014.