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AbstractThis article proposes a research agenda for the organization of the executive branch in Latin America by reviewing the literature on the U.S. and Latin American presidencies and outlining the research gap between them. The study finds that while strong, regionwide patterns have been established about cabinets in Latin America, research is lagging behind on the presidential center, presidential advisory networks, and their effects in policymaking. The article sets forth a series of research questions and suggests a combination of quantitative, social network, and case study strategies to address them.

This book analyzes some theoretical issues of empowerment and political participation of women, with a special interest in Latin American women. Under this premise, an evaluation is carried out with the help of Neutrosophy, of the political participation of women in the 2018 electoral process in the Municipality of Huamanga, Peru.

In the past, Iberian bibliography attracted only limited interest in Poland. In his extensive (33 vols.) Bibliografia Polska (1872–1939), Karol Estreicher included a good number of the Iberian titles that existed in Poland through the end of the nineteenth century; some useful cross-references may also be found in Gabriel Korbut's Literatura Polska (1929–31). Representative collections of old Spanish prints (already indexed), along with contemporary Polish translations of Iberian and Latin American works, are located at the National Library in Warsaw, and at the university libraries in Cracow and Warsaw.

The Inter-American Development Bank and the OECD Development Centre created the International Forum on Latin American Perspectives as an annual meeting place of ideas and strategies from Latin America and from the OECD region. The tenth meeting of the Forum was held in Paris in November 1999 and this book contains contributions from that meeting. Its broad conclusion is that reform of the international financial system must take place in the context of partnership between the private and the public international sectors in order to provide the conditions for stability and growth.

Introduction: Institutions, Actors, and Processes in the Transformation of Latin American Democracy / William C. Smith -- Part I: Debates on Democracy and Performance -- Liberal and Illiberal Democracy in Latin America / Peter H. Smith and Melissa R. Ziegler -- Neoliberalism and Democracy in Latin America: A Mixed Record / Kurt Weyland -- The Uneven Performance of Third Wave Democracies: Electoral Politics and the Imperfect Rule of Law in Latin America / Joe Foweraker and Roman Krznaric -- Part II: Institutions and the Travails of Competitive Politics -- The Reelection Debate in Latin America / John M. Carey -- Decentralization's Nondemocratic Roots: Authoritarianism and Subnational Reform tn Latin America / Kent Eaton -- Institutional Change and Ethnic Parties in South America / Donna Lee Van Cott -- Expanding Accountability Through Participatory Institutions: Mayors, Citizens, and Budgeting in Three Brazilian Municipalities / Brian Wampler -- "For a Few Senators More"? Negotiating Constitutional Cbanges During Chile's Transition to Democracy / Fredrik Uggla -- Judicial Reform as Insurance Policy: Mexico in the 1990s / Jodi S. Finkel -- Part III: Actors, Participation, and Mass Politics -- Indigenous Parties and Democracy in Latin America / Raul L. Madrid -- Defining Rights in Democratization: The Argentine Government and Human Rights Organizations, 1983-2003 / Michelle D. Bonner -- Sources of Mass Partisanship in Brazil / David Samuels -- Brazil's Agrarian Reform: Democratic Innovation or Oligarchic Exclusion Redux? / Anthony W. Pereira -- The Indian Movement and Political Democracy in Ecuador / Leon Zamosc -- Local Democracy and the Transformation of Popular Participation in Chile / Paul W. Posner -- Part IV Challenges of Unstructured Political Mobilization -- Indictments, Myths, and Citizen Mobilization in Argentina: A Discourse Analysis / Ariel C. Armony and Victor Armony -- Democracy Without Parties? Political Parties and Regime Change in Fujimori's Peru / Steven Levitsky and Maxwell A. Cameron -- Social Correlates of Party System Demise and Populist Resurgence in Venezuela / Kenneth M. Roberts