Books Archive - University of Pittsburgh Press

The Persistence of Local Caudillos in Latin America

Informal Political Practices and Democracy in Unitary Countries

By Tomáš Došek

Illustrates the Unevenness of Democracy in Latin America

Dependency and Crisis in Brazil and Argentina

A Critique of Market and State Utopias

By Felipe Antunes de Oliveira

Provides a Detailed Analysis of Argentine and Brazilian Political Economy Over the Last Three Decades

Business Power and the State in the Central Andes

Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru in Comparison

By John Crabtree, Jonas Wolff, Francisco Durand

Offers Fresh Insight into Crucial Debates over the Causes of Diverging and Converging Political Trajectories in the Region

Capitalist Outsiders

Oil's Legacies in Mexico and Venezuela

By Leslie C. Gates

How Capitalist Outsiders Willing to Accommodate the Dominant Economic Elite Often Defeat Anticapitalist Outsiders

Now We Are in Power

The Politics of Passive Revolution in Twenty-First-Century Bolivia

By Angus McNelly

Follows the Rise and Fall of Evo Morales and the Political and Economic Transformations of Bolivia

The Politics of Patronage Appointments in Latin American Central Administrations

Edited By Francisco Panizza, B. Guy Peters, Conrado Ramos Larraburu

A Systematic Analysis of Patronage Appointments in Public Bureaucracies of Seven Latin American Countries

Resource Extraction and Protest in Peru

By Moisés Arce

In this groundbreaking study, Moises Arce exposes a long-standing climate of popular contention in Peru. Looking beneath the surface to the subnational, regional, and local level as inception points, he rigorously dissects the political conditions that set the stage for protest. Focusing on natural resource extraction and its key role in the political economy of Peru and other developing countries, Arce reveals a wide disparity in the incidence, forms, and consequences of collective action.

Democratic Brazil Divided

Edited By Peter R. Kingstone, Timothy J. Power

March 2015 should have been a time of celebration for Brazil, as it marked thirty years of democracy, a newfound global prominence, over a decade of rising economic prosperity, and stable party politics under the rule of the widely admired PT (Workers’ Party). Instead, the country descended into protest, economic crisis, impeachment, and deep political division. This volume offers a comprehensive and nuanced portrayal of long-standing problems that contributed to the emergence of crisis and offers insights into the ways Brazilian democracy has performed well despite crisis.

Reshaping the Political Arena in Latin America

From Resisting Neoliberalism to the Second Incorporation

Edited By Eduardo Silva, Federico Rossi

This volume examines the role played in Latin America’s second wave of incorporation by political parties, trade unions, and social movements in five cases: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Ecuador, and Venezuela. The cases shed new light on a subject critical to understanding the change in the distribution of political power related to popular sectors and their interests—a key issue in the study of postneoliberalism.