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"Characterization, Strategies, and Objectives of the Latin American Right" published on by Oxford University Press.

1. Introduction -- 2. Mercosur and the Pacific Alliance Convergence in Building a Labor Level Playing Field Across Latin America -- 3. The Movement of People in the Pacific Alliance in Chile -- 4. Preserving Domestic Autonomy: Weak Migration Laws and the Mercosur Strategy of Limited Integration -- 5. Building Territories in Urban Settings: Family Networks of Indigenous Peoples in Argentina's Hinterland -- 6. Theoretical and Methodological Contributions to Social Mobilization in the Context of Globalization. A Case Study of Mexico 2010-2015 -- 7. The Use of Technologies to Control Irregular Immigrants in Tapachula, Chiapas -- 8. Migrant Agricultural Laborers in Mexico: Transforming the Marginal Consciousness through Education -- 9. Correlation Between Violence and Forced Migration in Mexico -- 10. A Critical Approach in Forestry Cities in the Chilean Case -- 11. Conclusion

"The Changing Shapes of Latin American Welfare States" published on by Oxford University Press.

"Indigenous Politics and Resistance in Latin America: Continuity and Change" published on by Oxford University Press.

ABSTRACT
This essay documents growing partisan social uprootedness across Latin America over time, manifested in diminishing social trust toward parties, debilitation of links between parties and social collectivities, lowering levels of partisanship, and rising incidence of personalism in the electorate. It focuses on some unrecognized and undertheorized causal factors behind partisan involution in the region, putting emphasis on mutually reinforcing processes. First, it identifies forces endogenous to the traits of origin of diminished parties that foster their uprootedness and decay; second, it lays out some of the manifold ways that the weakening of political parties fuels regime malperformance, in a mutually reinforcing vicious circle; third, it outlines the existence of mutual feedback loops between political agency and structure; fourth, it identifies various agential sources of party decay. There are strong theoretical and empirical reasons to expect continued party deinstitutionalization across Latin America going forward.

AbstractRobert Putnam extolled the virtue of social capital by arguing that social networks, civil society, and trust contribute to democracy. Subsequent research, however, identified a weakness in the social capital "model" in its underspecification of the mechanisms by which social capital affects political systems. This article proposes the concept of political capital as a likely product of social capital that links civil society participants to the political system. The article tests this two-stage model of social capital and political capital and their effects on democratization using survey data from eight Latin American nations. Results find that civil society engagement in 2004 affected political capital variables, which, in turn, had positive effects on system-level democracy measures in 2010. The article thus shows that political capital serves as an intervening variable between social capital and democracy and democratization.

"This is the third of four volumes compiled in honor of Juan J. Linz and edited by H. E. Chehabi, Richard Gunther, Alfred Stepan, and Arturo Valenzuela. Each volume presents original research and theoretical essays by Linz's distinguished collaborators, students, teachers, and friends, as well as overviews of his enormous contributions to Spanish and Latin American studies, comparative politics, and sociology.In Volume III, leading Latin American scholars evaluate Juan Linz's contribution to the study of Latin American politics, in particular his influence on studies dealing with authoritarianism, democratic breakdown, public opinion, regime transition, and the institutional conditions needed for stable democracy."--Provided by publisher.