Most Recent Articles from Latin American Politics and Society

• Correction 

  In a review of the book So Far from Allah, So Close to Mexico in the summer 2008 issue, the author's first name was misspelled and her national...

  10/01/09 · More from publication

• Patronage Politics and Contentious Collective Action: A Recursive Relationship 

  ABSTRACT Based on ethnographic reanalysis and on current qualitative research on poor people's politics, this article argues that routine...

  10/01/09 by Auyero, Javier; Lapegna, Pablo; Poma, Fernanda Page · More from publication

• Electoral Systems in Latin America: Explaining the Adoption of Proportional Representation Systems During the Twentieth Century 

  ABSTRACT This article explains the twentieth-century Latin American shift from majoritarian to proportional representation (PR) electoral systems....

  10/01/09 by Wills-Otero, Laura · More from publication

• Self-Restraint in Search of Legitimacy: The Reform of the Argentine Supreme Court 

  ABSTRACT In 2003, the Argentine executive promoted a process of Supreme Court reform that entailed limiting presidential attributions in the...

  10/01/09 by Ruibal, Alba M · More from publication

• Minimum Winning Electoral Coalitions Under Presidentialism: Reality or Fiction? The Case of Brazil 

  ABSTRACT This article studies the motivations of party leaders to form "minimum winning" electoral coalitions-alliances that cease to be winning...

  10/01/09 by Machado, Aline · More from publication

• Campaign Strategies of Afro-Brazilian Politicians: A Preliminary Analysis 

  ABSTRACT Racial politics in Brazil have changed dramatically: the nation-state that once denied racism now enacts racial policies for...

  10/01/09 by Mitchell, Gladys · More from publication

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