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A review essay covering books by: 1) Merike Blofield, The Great Gap: Inequality and the Politics of Redistribution in Latin America (2011); 2) America Evelyn Huber and John D. Stephens, Democracy and the Left: Social Policy and Inequality in Latin (2012); 3) Stephen B. Kaplan, Globalization and Austerity Politics in Latin America (2013).

"Students who enroll in an introductory course on comparative politics should be prepared to encounter some tough but fascinating questions: Why are some states democracies while others are not? Why does ethnicity seem to be at the heart of so much conflict in the world today?"--

This book tackles the issues involved and explores strategies to deal with many of the problems of establishing equivalence. Each contribution focuses on a theoretically relevant theme, such as: tolerance; political values; religious orientations; gender roles; voluntary associations; party organizations and party positions; democratic regimes, and the mass media. Each chapter covers different topics, methods, data and countries, making use of research to show the problems of finding similar or identical indicators in realistic research settings