Political Culture and Foreign Policy in Latin America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Political Culture and Foreign Policy in Latin America write by Roland H. Ebel. This book was released on 1991-01-01. Political Culture and Foreign Policy in Latin America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book explores the impact of Latin America's political culture on the international politics of the region. It offers a general account of traditional Iberian political culture while examining how relations among states in the hemisphere -- where the United States has been the central actor -- have evolved over time. The authors assess the degree of consistency between domestic and international political behavior. The assessments are supported by case studies.
Democracies and Dictatorships in Latin America
Democracies and Dictatorships in Latin America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Democracies and Dictatorships in Latin America write by Scott Mainwaring. This book was released on 2014-01-31. Democracies and Dictatorships in Latin America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book presents a new theory for why political regimes emerge, and why they subsequently survive or break down. It then analyzes the emergence, survival and fall of democracies and dictatorships in Latin America since 1900. Scott Mainwaring and Aníbal Pérez-Liñán argue for a theoretical approach situated between long-term structural and cultural explanations and short-term explanations that look at the decisions of specific leaders. They focus on the political preferences of powerful actors - the degree to which they embrace democracy as an intrinsically desirable end and their policy radicalism - to explain regime outcomes. They also demonstrate that transnational forces and influences are crucial to understand regional waves of democratization. Based on extensive research into the political histories of all twenty Latin American countries, this book offers the first extended analysis of regime emergence, survival and failure for all of Latin America over a long period of time.
Gradual Economic Reform in Latin America
Gradual Economic Reform in Latin America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Gradual Economic Reform in Latin America write by Mary A. Clark. This book was released on 2001-07-19. Gradual Economic Reform in Latin America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Gradual Economic Reform in Latin America questions why most Latin American countries have not nearly completed neoliberal economic reforms. Examining Costa Rica as an important example of the gradual, as opposed to radical, approach, Mary A. Clark utilizes over one hundred fifty interviews as well as secondary data to present ten mini-case studies of structural adjustment in the 1980s and 1990s. In analyzing the economic, social, and political outcomes of Costa Rica's experience, Clark concludes the gradual approach has yielded positive results, and compares this country's experiences with that of other Latin American welfare states.
Ethnocentrism in Foreign Policy
Ethnocentrism in Foreign Policy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ethnocentrism in Foreign Policy write by Howard J. Wiarda. This book was released on 1985. Ethnocentrism in Foreign Policy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Lessons from Latin America
Lessons from Latin America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Lessons from Latin America write by Kirk Bowman. This book was released on 2014-08-20. Lessons from Latin America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Since the early 1980s, Latin American countries have been innovative in a range of policy and cultural experiences, including health care, voting, pensions, and multiculturalism. And yet, their policy innovations are rarely found in textbooks. This book addresses that gap, providing a fascinating and wide-ranging exploration of both the history of "looking down" at Latin America and the political, economic, and cultural "lessons" (including successes, failures, and unintended consequences) that should inform important policy discussions around the world.
