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Scholars of democratic consolidation have come to focus on the links between political institutions and enduring regime outcomes. This article takes issue with the conceptual and analytical underpinnings of this literature by highlighting how new political institutions, rather than securing democratic politics, have in fact had a more checkered effect. It delineates why the theoretical expectations of the democratic consolidation literature have not been realized and draws, by example, on the contemporary ethnic movements that are now challenging third-wave democracies. In particular, it highlights how contemporary indigenous movements, emerging in response to unevenly institutionalized reforms, pose a postliberal challenge to Latin America's I newly founded democracies. These movements have sparked political debates and constitutional reforms over community rights, territorial autonomy, and a multiethnic citizenry. As a whole, I they have laid bare the weakness of state institutions, the contested terms of democracy, and the I indeterminacy of ethnic accommodation in the region. As such, these movements highlight the need to qualify somewhat premature and narrow discussions of democratic consolidation in favor I of a broader research agenda on democratic politics.

'Indigenous Movements and Their Critics: Pan-Maya Activism in Guatemala' by Kay B. Warren is reviewed. Indigenous Movements and Their Critics: Pan-Maya Activism in Guatemala by Kay B. Warren is reviewed.

Intro -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction: Studying Indigenous Activism in Latin America (Kay B.Warren and Jean E. Jackson) -- 2. The Indigenous Public Voice: The Multiple Idioms of Modernity in Native Cauca (David D. Gow and Joanne Rappaport) -- 3. Contested Discourses of Authority in Colombian National Indigenous Politics: The 1996 Summer Takeovers (Jean E. Jackson) -- 4. The Multiplicity of Mayan Voices: Mayan Leadership and the Politics of Self-Representation (Victor Montejo) -- 5. Voting against Indigenous Rights in Guatemala: Lessons from the 1999 Referendum (Kay B. Warren) -- 6. How Should an Indian Speak?: Amazonian Indians and the Symbolic Politics of Language in the Global Public Sphere (Laura R. Graham) -- 7. Representation, Polyphony, and the Construction of Power in a Kayapó Video, T(erence Turner) -- 8. Cutting through State and Class: Sources and Strategies of Self-Representation in Latin America (Alcida Rita Ramos) -- Contributors -- Index.

A crucial development in current Latin American politics is the growing involvement of indigenous movements in democracies grappling with the challenges of regime consolidation. This article examines how Ecuador's indigenous movement consecrated new rights and national constitutive principles in the 1997–8 constitutional assembly. It argues that the indigenous movement defined the legitimacy and purpose of the assembly through an ideological struggle with other political actors, in turn shaping the context and content of constitutional reforms in Ecuador. The article concludes that softening the boundary between 'cultural politics' and 'institutional politics' is necessary in order to understand the impact of social movements in Latin America.