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Writing the new world : the politics of natural history in the early Spanish Empire
\"In this volume, Mauro Caraccioli examines the natural history writings of early Spanish missionaries, using these texts to argue that colonial Latin America was fundamental in the development of modern political thought\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Posthegemony
Posthegemony is an investigation into the origins, limits, and possibilities for contemporary politics and political analysis. Challenging dominant strains in social theory, Jon Beasley-Murray contends that cultural studies simply replicates the populism that conditions it, and that civil society theory merely nourishes the neoliberalism that it sets out to oppose.
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The success of the left in Latin America : untainted parties, market reforms, and voting behavior
\"Why, since the beginning of the twenty-first century, have so many Latin American countries elected governments identifying themselves with the ideological Left? In The Success of the Left in Latin America: Untainted Parties, Market Reforms, and Voting Behavior, Rosario Queirolo argues that the \"pink tide\" that swept across Latin America beginning in the late 1990s--with the election of a growing number of leftist political candidates to public office--was caused by the intent of voters to punish political parties unable to improve the economic well-being of their electorates. She argues that Latin Americans vote based on performance, ousting those whom they perceive as responsible for economic downturns, and ushering into power those in the \"untainted opposition,\" which has been the Left in most Latin American countries. Queirolo argues that the effects of neoliberal economic reforms did not produce more votes for political parties on the Left. Rather, the key variable is unemployment. Left-leaning parties in Latin America increase their electoral chances when unemployment is high. In addition to explaining recent electoral successes of leftist parties, The Success of the Left in Latin America also undermines a dominant scholarly view of Latin Americans as random and unpredictable voters by showing how the electorate at the polls holds politicians accountable. \"Rosario Queirolo's The Success of the Left in Latin America: Untainted Parties, Market Reforms, and Voting Behavior makes a valuable contribution to the study of Latin American politics and of comparative politics more generally. Queirolo makes a compelling argument that the general shift to the Left in Latin America was less a straightforward protest against neoliberal policies but more strongly a reaction to negative economic performance. Enriched with extensive survey data, her book is authoritative and persuasive.\" --Elizabeth J. Zechmeister, Vanderbilt University\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Right-wing politics in the new Latin America
The focus for students of Latin America in the past decade has been on the political forces of the left and the so-called 'pink tide' presidencies attempting to bring about social and economic change in the region.However, there has been far less attention paid to the rightwing political forces resisting such change.
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Electoral rules and democracy in Latin America
\"During Latin America's third democratic wave, a majority of countries adopted a runoff rule for the election of the president, effectively dampening plurality voting, opening the political arena to new parties, and assuring the public that the president will never have anything less than majority support. In a region in which undemocratic political parties were common and have often been dominated by caudillos, cautious naysayers have voiced concerns about the runoff process, arguing that a proliferation of new political parties vying for power is a sign of inferior democracy. This book is the first rigorous assessment of the implications of runoff versus plurality rules throughout Latin America, and demonstrates that, in contrast to early scholarly skepticism about runoff, it has been positive for democracy in the region. Primarily through qualitative analysis for each country, the author argues that, indeed, an important advantage of runoff is the greater openness of the political arena to new parties--at the same time that measures can be taken to inhibit party proliferation. In this context, it is also the first volume to address whether or not a runoff rule with a reduced threshold (for example, 40% with a 10-point lead) is a felicitous compromise between majority runoff and plurality. The book considers the potential for the superiority of runoff to travel beyond Latin America--in particular, and rather provocatively, to the United States\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Internet, Humor, and Nation in Latin America
How online humor influences politics and culture in Latin
America
This volume is the first to provide a comprehensive Latin
American perspective on the role of humor in the Spanish- and
Portuguese-language internet, highlighting how the production and
circulation of online humor influence the region's relation to
democracy and civil society and the production of meaning in
everyday life.
Several case studies consider memes, including discussions of
political cartoons in Mexico and imagery that portrays the
mismanagement of natural disasters in Puerto Rico. Essays on Brazil
examine how memes are shared on WhatsApp by Jair Bolsonaro
supporters and how the Instagram account Barbie Fascionista offers
memes as political commentary. Other case studies consider video
content, including the sketches of Argentinian comedian Guillermo
Aquino, the short-form material of Chilean vlogger Germán
Garmendia, and a satirical YouTube column created by journalists in
Colombia. Contributors also offer new methodologies for studying
the laughable on social media, including a model for analyzing fake
Twitter accounts.
Internet, Humor, and Nation in Latin America
demonstrates that internet humor can generate novel means of public
interaction with the political and cultural spheres and create
greater expectations of governmental accountability and democratic
participation. This volume shows the importance of paying serious
attention to humorous digital content as part of contemporary
culture.
Contributors: Eva Paulina Bueno | Juan Poblete | Alberto
Centeno-Pulido | Damián Fraticelli | Juan Carlos Rodríguez | Viktor
Chagas | Paul Alonso | Ulisses Sawczuk da Silva | Héctor Fernández
L'Hoeste | Alejandra Nallely Collado Campos | R. Sánchez-Rivera |
Mélodine Sommier | Fábio Marques de Souza
A volume in the series Reframing Media, Technology, and Culture
in Latin/o America, edited by Héctor Fernández L'Hoeste and Juan
Carlos Rodríguez
Publication of this work made possible by a Sustaining the
Humanities through the American Rescue Plan grant from the National
Endowment for the Humanities.
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Party systems in Latin America's neoliberal era : changing course
\"This book explores the impact of economic crises and free-market reforms on party systems and political representation in contemporary Latin America. It explains why some patterns of market reform align and stabilize party systems, whereas other patterns of reform leave party systems vulnerable to widespread social protest and electoral instability. In contrast to other works on the topic, this book accounts for both the institutionalization and the breakdown of party systems, and it explains why Latin America turned to the Left politically in the aftermath of the market-reform process. Ultimately, it explains why this \"left turn\" was more radical in some countries than others and why it had such varied effects on national party systems\"-- Provided by publisher.
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Success of the Left in Latin America
Why, since the beginning of the twenty-first century, have so
many Latin American countries elected governments identifying
themselves with the ideological Left? In The Success of the
Left in Latin America: Untainted Parties, Market Reforms, and
Voting Behavior , Rosario Queirolo argues that the \"pink tide\"
that swept across Latin America beginning in the late 1990s-with
the election of a growing number of leftist political candidates to
public office-was caused by the intent of voters to punish
political parties unable to improve the economic well-being of
their electorates. She argues that Latin Americans vote based on
performance, ousting those whom they perceive as responsible for
economic downturns, and ushering into power those in the \"untainted
opposition,\" which has been the Left in most Latin American
countries.
Queirolo argues that the effects of neoliberal economic reforms
did not produce more votes for political parties on the Left.
Rather, the key variable is unemployment. Left-leaning parties in
Latin America increase their electoral chances when unemployment is
high. In addition to explaining recent electoral successes of
leftist parties, The Success of the Left in Latin America
also undermines a dominant scholarly view of Latin Americans as
random and unpredictable voters by showing how the electorate at
the polls holds politicians accountable.
eBook
Welfare and Party Politics in Latin America
Systems of social protection can provide crucial assistance to the poorest and most vulnerable groups in society, but not all systems are created equally. In Latin America, social policies have historically exhibited large gaps in coverage and high levels of inequality in benefit size. Since the late 1990s, countries in this region have begun to grapple with these challenges, enacting a series of reforms to healthcare, social assistance and education policy. While some of these initiatives have moved in a universal direction, others have maintained existing segmentation or moved in a regressive direction. Welfare and Party Politics in Latin America explores this variation in Argentina, Chile, Uruguay and Venezuela, finding that the design of previous policies, the intensity of electoral competition, and the character of political parties all influence the nature of contemporary social policy reform in Latin America.
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