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This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This edited volume examines how economic processes have worked upon social lives and social realities in Latin America during the past decades. Through tracing the effects of the neoliberal epoch into the era of the so-called pink tide, the book seeks to understand to what extent the turn to the left at the start of the millennium managed to challenge historically constituted configurations of inequality. A central argument in the book is that in spite of economic reforms and social advances on a range of arenas, the fundamental tenants of socio-economic inequalities have not been challenged substantially. As several countries are now experiencing a return to right-wing politics, this collection helps us better understand why inequalities are so entrenched in the Latin American continent, but also the complex and creative ways that it is continuously contested. The book directs itself to students, scholars and anyone interested in Latin America, economic anthropology, political anthropology, left-wing politics, poverty and socio-economic inequalities.

Human development, human rights, and democracy / Guillermo O'Donnell -- Democracy and the quality of democracy : empirical findings and methodological and theoretical issues drawn from the citizen audit of the quality of democracy in Costa Rica / Jorge Vargas Cullell -- In search of a new paradigm : quality of democracy and human development in Latin America / Gabriela Ippolito -- Notes on human development, human rights, and auditing the quality of democracy / Laurence Whitehead -- Latin America : virtuous or perverse cycle / Terry Lynn Karl -- Fundamental rights as a limitation to the democratic principle of majority will / Juan E. Méndez -- On the imaginary of citizenry / Norbert Lechner -- State, democracy, and social rights / María Hermínia Tavares de Almeida -- Deepening civil and social rights / Catherine M. Conaghan -- Unfinished business for Latin America's democracies / Osvaldo M. Iazzetta -- Quality of democracy or quality of politics? / Manuel Alcántara Sáez -- Quality of democracy and its measurement / Michael Coppedge -- Democratic quality : costs and benefits of the concepts / Sebastián L. Mazzuca -- Conceptual and methodological notes on the quality of democracy and its audit / Gerardo L. Munck