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"Left Governments and Social Movements in Latin America" published on by Oxford University Press.

This article presents both a theoretical framework and a methodology that attempt to capture the complex interactions among labor markets, families, and public policy that currently constitute Latin American welfare regimes. Drawing on cluster analysis based on available data for 18 countries, the study identifies three welfare regimes. Two are state welfare regimes: protectionist (e.g. Costa Rica) and productivist (e.g. Chile), one is nonstate familiarist (e.g. Ecuador and Nicaragua). In a region where people's well-being is deeply embedded in family relationships, closer scholarly attention to how social structures interact with public policy bears not only academic interest but also policy implications, particularly for adapting particular welfare regimes to the local welfare mix. Adapted from the source document.

AbstractIn recent years, important indigenous parties have emerged for the first time in Latin American history. Although some analysts view this development with trepidation, this essay argues that the indigenous parties in Latin America are unlikely to exacerbate ethnic conflict or create the kinds of problems that have been associated with some ethnic parties in other regions. To the contrary, the emergence of major indigenous parties in Latin America may actually help deepen democracy in the region. These parties will certainly improve the representativeness of the party system in the countries where they arise. They should also increase political participation and reduce party system fragmentation and electoral volatility in indigenous areas. They may even increase the acceptance of democracy and reduce political violence in countries with large indigenous populations.

A review essay on books by: (1)Mercedes Botto (Ed.), Research and International Trade Policy Negotiations: Knowledge and Power in Latin America (New York: Routledge, 2010); (2)Mark S. Manger (Ed.), Investing in Protection: The Politics of Preferential Trade Agreements Between North and South (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009); (3)Diego Sanchez-Ancochea and Kenneth C. Shadlen (Eds.), The Political Economy of Hemispheric Integration: Responding to Globalization in the Americas (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2008); and (4)Mireya Solis, Barbara Stallings, and Saori N. Katada (Eds.), Competitive Regionalism: FTA Diffusion in the Pacific Rim (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009).