Democracy in Latin America (re)constructing political society /

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Fragile Governance and Local Economic Development : Theory and Evidence from Peripheral Regions in Latin America /

Table of Contents: “…Intergenerational Leadership and Local Economic Development: Towards a New Kind of Artisan Association in Mompox, Colombia --Sergio Montero and Nathalia Caldern --Chapter 9. …”
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Crime, violence and the state in Latin America / by Rosen, Jonathan D., Kassab, Hanna Samir, 1984-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction and theoretical approach -- Colombia -- Mexico -- El Salvador and Nicaragua : Comparing regime type -- External actors and power vacuums -- Conclusions.…”
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Cocaine trafficking in Latin America EU and US policy responses / by Fukumi, Sayaka, 1973-

Table of Contents: “…Introduction -- Securitisation and drug control policy : theoretical frameworks -- The "securitisation" of cocaine trafficking in the European Union -- The "securitisation" of cocaine trafficking in the United States -- EU drug control policy towards the Andes -- US drug control policy towards the Andes -- Plan Colombia : an attempt at multinational co-operation -- Conclusion.…”
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Impact evaluation of small and medium enterprise programs in Latin America and the Caribbean by Lopez Acevedo, Gladys

Table of Contents: “…Motivation,methodology and main findings -- A review of recent SME program impact evaluation studies -- Evaluating SME support programs in Chile using panel firm data -- Evaluating small and medium enterprise support programs in Colombia -- Mexico : impact evaluation of sme programs using panel firm data -- Evaluating small and medium enterprise support programs in Peru.…”
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Distortions to agricultural incentives in Latin America

Table of Contents: “….] -- Chile / Alberto Valdés and Esteban Jara -- Colombia / Lia Guterman -- Dominican Republic / Jesús de los Santos and Pedro Pablo Peña -- Ecuador / Ernesto Valenzuela, Sara Wong, and Damiano Sandri -- Mexico / Isidro Soloaga and Gabriel Lara -- Nicaragua / Matias Berthelon, Diana Kruger, and Diana Saavedra.…”
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The Obama administration and the Americas agenda for change /

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Same-sex marriage in Latin America promise and resistance /

Table of Contents: “…LGBT rights and the Latin American Left today / Shawn Schulenberg -- Support for same-sex marriage in Latin America / Germ�an Lodola and Margarita Corral -- Variations in the judicialization of same-sex marriage politics in Latin America / Jason Pierceson -- Same-sex partnership rights in Central America: the case of Panama / Shawn Schulenberg -- The creation of civil partnerships in Uruguay / Diego Sempol -- Same-sex couples in Colombia: three models for their legal and political recognition / Daniel Bonilla -- Legal mobilization and the road to same-sex marriage in Argentina / Maria Gracia And�ia -- The battle for marriage equality in Mexico, 2001-2011 / Genaro Lozano.…”
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The new Latin American left Utopia reborn /

Table of Contents: “…: introduction to the study of the new Latin American left / César Rodríguez-Garavito, Patrick Barrett and Daniel Chavez -- Brazil : Lula's government, a critical appraisal / Félix Sánchez, João Machado Borges Neto and Rosa Maria Marques -- Venezuela : populism and the left : alternatives to neo-liberalism / Edgardo Lander -- Uruguay : the left in government : between continuity and change / Daniel Chavez -- Colombia : the new left : origins, trajectory and prospects / César Rodríguez-Garavita -- Argentina : the left, parties and movements : strategies and prospects / Federico L. …”
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Cultures of legality judicialization and political activism in Latin America /

Table of Contents: “…Cultures of legality : judicialization and political activism in contemporary Latin America / Alexandra Huneeus, Javier Couso, and Rachel Sieder -- Legal language and social change during Colombia's economic crisis / Pablo Rueda -- How courts work : culture, institutions, and the Brazilian Supremo tribunal federal / Diana Kapiszewski -- More power, more rights? …”
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Public security and police reform in the Americas /

Table of Contents: “…Public security and police reform in the Americas / John Bailey and Lucía Dammert -- Brazil's public-security plans / Emilio Enrique Dellasoppa and Zoraia Saint'Clair Branco -- Public-private partnerships for police reform in Brazil / Paulo de Mesquita Neto -- From public security to citizen security in Chile / Lucía Dammert -- The institutional identity of the carabineros de Chile / Azun Candina -- Armed conflict and public security in Colombia / Gonzalo de Francisco Z. -- Demilitarization in a war zone / María Victoria Llorente -- Security policies in El Salvador, 1992-2002 / Edgardo Alberto Amaya -- Violence, citizen insecurity, and elite maneuvering in El Salvador / José Miguel Cruz -- Public security and police reform in Mexico / Marcos Pablo Moloeznik -- Local responses to public insecurity in Mexico / Allison M. …”
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Convivial constellations in Latin America : from colonial to contemporary times /

Table of Contents: “…Conviviality between norm and praxis: Imperial conviviality: producing difference in the TransAtlantic Iberian world / Karen Graubart -- Mestizaje and conviviality in Brazil, Colombia And Mexico / Peter Wade -- Syncretism and pluralism in the configuration of religious diversity in Brazil / Paula Montero -- Part 3. …”
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Race and nation in modern Latin America

Table of Contents: “…Chambers -- Belonging to the great Granadan family : partisan struggle and the construction of indigenous identity and politics in Southwestern Colombia, 1849-1890 / James Sanders -- Searching for "Latin America" : race and sovereignty in the Americas in the 1850s / Aims McGuinness -- Imagining the colonial nation : race, gender, and middle-class politics in Belize, 1888-1898 / Anne S. …”
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Community capacity and resilience in Latin America /

Table of Contents: “…Boren Alpízar and Carla Andrea Millares Forno -- Reflection on building sustainable resilience solutions to achieve SDG 2 in Colombia / Deborah Hines and Rondro Ranaivo.…”
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New constitutionalism in Latin America promises and practices /

Table of Contents: “…/ Rickard Lalander -- New constitutions and the transformation of democracy in Bolivia and Ecuador / Jonas Wolff -- Constitutionalizing policy : the Brazilian constitution of 1988 and its impact on governance / Rogerio Arantes and Claudio Couto -- Change and continuity in Dominican constitutions : the 2010 reform compared / Leiv Marsteintredet -- Chile : democratization through constitutional reforms / Claudio Fuentes -- Institutional design and judicial behaviour : constitutional interpretation of criminal due process rights in Latin America / Julio Rios-Figueroa -- Constitutional courts and constitutional change : analyzing the cases of presidential re-election in Latin America / Elena Martínez-Barahona -- Colombia's 1991 constitution : a rights revolution / Juan Fernando Jaramillo -- How does new constitutionalism respond to the human rights challenges posed by transnational corporations? …”
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Cocaine : From Coca Fields to the Streets /

Table of Contents: “…Introduction: The moral economy of the cocaine trade / Enrique Desmond Arias and Thomas Grisaffi -- The white factory : coca, cocaine, and informal governance in the Chapare, Bolivia / Thomas Grisaffi -- Tracing cocaine supply chains from within : illicit flows, armed conflict, and the moral economy of Andean borderlands / Annette Idler -- Drug crops, twisted motorcycles, and cultural loss in indigenous Colombia / Autumn Zellers-León -- From Corumbá to Rio : an ethnography of trafficking / Robert Gay -- Border, ghetto, prison : cocaine and social orders in Guatemala / Anthony W. …”
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Courts in Latin America

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