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AbstractThroughout Latin America, particular business conglomerates have begun to sponsor their own political parties, building those parties on their own corporate assets. These "corporation-based parties" represent a new wave of highly particularized conservative representation in the region. Indeed, corporation-based parties have become a regular—though largely unrecognized—feature of contemporary Latin American party systems. This article develops a theory of how and why particular business conglomerates sponsor their own parties, provides substantial evidence for the existence of corporation-based parties across much of Latin America, and uses a case study of a party built on a Panamanian supermarket chain to demonstrate how such parties are organized. In closing, it discusses the possible future for these parties in the region.

"The Electoral Representation of Evangelicals in Latin America" published on by Oxford University Press.

Enthält Rezensionen u.a. von: Brinks, Daniel M.: The judical response to police killings in Latin America : inequality and the rule of law. - New York/N.Y. : Cambridge University Press, 2008

AbstractWhy are some Latin American states plagued by persistent policy volatility while the policies of others remain relatively stable? This article explores the political economy of natural resource rents and policy volatility across Latin America. It argues that, all else equal, resource rents will create incentives for political leaders, which will result in repeated episodes of policy volatility. This effect, however, will depend on the structure of political institutions. Where political institutions fail to provide a forum for intertemporal exchange among political actors, natural resource rents will result in increased levels of policy volatility. Alternatively, where political institutions facilitate agreement among actors, resource rents will be conducive to policy stability. This argument is tested on a measure of policy volatility for 18 Latin American economies between 1993 and 2008. The statistical tests provide support for the argument.

"Gender, Race, and Political Representation in Latin America" published on by Oxford University Press.

A reviewer confronted with fourteen new books on the Latin-American economy inevitably seeks a common theme on which to hang his remarks, in the hope that this will make sense of his labours. Let it be confessed immediately that diligent search has failed to reveal any such unity in these volumes. Indeed, on the safe assumption that they represent a random selection from the rapidly growing literature on the subject, they might almost be taken as evidence of a diversity of approach. An alternative strategy, therefore, is to argue the existence of central doctrines in the literature on Latin- American development in the last twenty-five years, and to relate to them the literature under review.

Introduction / Sebastián A. Cutrona and Jonathan D. Rosen -- General trends / Mary Malone -- The cycle of mano dura policies : the militarization of the drug war in Mexico / Jonathan D. Rosen, Roberto Zepeda, Sebastián Cutrona, and Richard Huizar -- Performing punitivism : mano dura in El Salvador / Christine J. Wade -- Mano dura policies in Honduras : capitalizing off (in)security / Pamela Ruiz -- Fighting the last war : Colombia's experience with "tough on crime" policies / Adam Isacson -- The evolution of crime policy and attitudes toward mano dura in Ecuador / John Polga-Hecimovich -- Throwing away the key : mano dura with Bolivian characteristics / Marten Brienen -- Faces of a perverse state : mano dura policies in Brazil from a historical perspective / Marcos Alan Ferreira and Anna Beatriz Ramalho Gonçalves -- The popularity and limits of tough on crime policies in Argentina / Hernán Flom -- Conclusión / Jonathan D. Rosen and Sebastián A. Cutrona.