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The article presents examples from Central and South America in order to show the lack of a public service tradition, the obstacles of patronage and corruption, the opportunity costs of bureaucratic development, the difficulty of reform, and the drawbacks of professionalization. It concludes with some suggestions about how to overcome these impediments

This dissertation approaches Latin American integration through the Pan American Highway. While integration, the process by which communities are imagined and social collectivities take shape, has often been understood as a regional economic and political process, this dissertation uses ethnographic insights to understand how people's lived experiences on the Pan American Highway inform integration at national, regional, and hemispheric scales. Based on fieldwork in eastern Panama, the only location where the highway has yet to be completed, as well as archival research in Panama and the United States, this study traces mobility practices along the highway: the migrations, displacements, travels, and everyday commutes it facilitates, and also the planning, construction and maintenance activities that make the highway possible. Engaging postcolonial studies, science and technology studies and the anthropology of mobility, this dissertation charts how the highway creates connections between people and landscapes, enables the movement of tangible and intangible things, and produces encounters across difference that nonetheless create common, if unequal, ground. Understanding integration through the Pan American Highway offers a way to make sense of the multiple and competing dreams and desires that, through movements and encounters, create uneven forms of togetherness.By arguing that large-scale modern projects such as the highway may be traced through their linkages to other projects operating at other scales (such as nation-building projects) in order to understand their power and lively heterogeneity, and by arguing that connections and movements across the Americas must always be situated within a material landscape (that is, by arguing that social processes in Latin America cannot be understood as culture exclusive of nature), this dissertation contributes to understandings of modernity and coloniality in America, and of how these configurations--best illustrated by the idea of a smooth, straight road to progress--may change, just as the movements, surfaces, and landscapes of the Pan American Highway are also in constant and lively transformation.

LATIN AMERICAN SOCIAL SCIENTISTS WITH A PROGRESSIVE OR REVOLUTIONALRY OUTLOOK ARE FAR FROM UNDERSTANDING THE CONCERN OF THOSE WHO ARE FIGHTING DEPENDENCY, FASCISM, AND CAPITALISM, SAYS THIS AUTHOR. USING THE LANGUAGE OF MARXIST STRUCTURALISM AND/OR FUNCTIONALISM, THEY DESCRIBE AND EXPLAIN THE "SYSTEM".THE SHOULD TREAT THE WORKING CLASS AND ITS ALLIES AS HISTORICAL ACTORS ON ROAD TO SOCIALISM.

Review of: Latin American Adventures in Literary Journalism, Pablo Calvi (2019)
Pittsburgh, PA: University of Pittsburgh Press, 276 pp.,
ISBN 978-0-82294-565-9, p/bk, $50

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- 1. The Transformation of the Latin American Automobile Industry -- 2. The Argentine Automotive Industry: Redefining Production Strategies, Markets, and Labor Relations -- 3. The Transformation of Industrial Relations in the Brazilian Automotive Industry -- 4. Restructuring in the Colombian Auto Industry: A Case Study of Conflict at Renault -- 5. Economic Integration and the Transformation of Labor Relations in the Mexican Automotive Industry

Einer kurzen theoretischen Einleitung schließen sich die Energiebilanz Lateinamerikas insgesamt, die regionalen (Mexiko, Zentralamerika, Karibik, Anden, Südostamerika, Brasilien) und die nationalen Energiebilanzen an. Daraus folgende Empfehlungen für die Planung im Energiesektor sind auf 8 Seiten zusammengefaßt. (SWP-Rtr)

Schaubilder und Tabellen geben einen Überblick über Energiereserven und -potential der lateinamerikanischen Staaten, über ihre Energieproduktion, -einfuhr, -ausfuhr und -verbrauch, nach den verschiedenen Sektoren. (SWP-Rtr)

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This article explains the twentieth-century Latin American shift from majoritarian to proportional representation (PR) electoral systems. It argues that PR was introduced when the electoral arena changed significantly and threatened the power of the dominant party. The adoption of PR was therefore an effort by the established party to retain partial power in the face of absolute defeat. Majoritarian systems remained in place when the incumbent party was strong enough to believe that it could gain a plurality of the votes despite electoral changes. An empirical analysis of 20 countries over 104 years (1900–2004) provides support for this argument.

Argues that "liberation theology is profoundly anti-American and pro-Marxist."