Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Acronyms -- Map -- Chapter 1: Why Study Latin America? -- Chapter 2: Why History Matters -- Chapter 3: Latin America's Political Elites -- Chapter 4: Political Traditions, Political Legacies, and Political Institutions: How Personal Rule and Political Violence Figure in Modern Latin American Politics -- Chapter 5: Political Institutions and the Machinery of Government -- Chapter 6: Parties, Elections, and Movements -- Chapter 7: Unconstitutional Political Change: Coups, Insurgencies, and Revolutions as Contentious Politics -- Chapter 8: Democracy and Democratization -- Chapter 9: Political Economy and Economic Policy in Latin America -- Chapter 10: Latin American International Relations -- Chapter 11: Latin America in Comparative Perspective -- Bibliography -- Index
"Latin American Politics is aimed at Latin American politics courses offered out of political science departments at the second- and third-year levels. Unlike many texts in this area, which tend to take a country-by-country approach, this book takes a thematic approach and covers such topics as Latin America's history, violence, democracy, and political economy. This approach is self-consciously comparative and encourages students to develop stronger comparative analysis skills. Fully updated and revised, this second edition also includes a new chapter on party systems and the media as well as new chapter-opening and closing vignettes to engage readers and provide more country-specific content."
"Highlighting eleven different topics in separate chapters, the thematic approach of Latin American Politics offers students the conceptual tools they need to analyze the political systems of all twenty Latin American nations. Such a structure makes the book self-consciously comparative, allowing students to become stronger analysts of comparative politics and better political scientists in general."--BOOK JACKET
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