The Right 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 The Right in Latin America write by Barry Cannon. This book was released on 2016-04-14. The Right in Latin America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Most current analysis on Latin American politics has been directed at examining the shift to the left in the region. Very little attention, however, has been paid to the reactions of the right to this phenomenon. What kind of discursive, policy, and strategic responses have emerged among the right in Latin America as a result of this historic turn to the left? Have there been any shifts in attitudes to inequality and poverty as a result of the successes of the left in those areas? How has the right responded strategically to regain the political initiative from the left? And what implications might such responses have for democracy in the region? The Right in Latin America seeks to provide answers to these questions while helping to fill a gap in the literature on contemporary Latin American politics. Unlike previous studies, Barry Cannon’s book does not simply concentrate on party political responses to the contemporary challenges for the right in the region. Rather he uses a wider, more comprehensive theoretical framework, grounded in political sociology, in recognition of the deep social roots of the right among Latin America’s elites, in a region known for its startling inequalities. Using Michael Mann’s pioneering work on power, he shows how elite dominance in the key areas of the economy, ideology, the military, and in transnational relations, has had a profound influence on the political strategies of the Latin American right. He shows how left governments, especially the more radical ones, have threatened elite power in these areas, influencing right-wing strategic responses as a result. These responses, he persuasively argues, can vary from elections, through street protests and media campaigns, to military coups, depending on the level of perceived threat felt by elites from the left. In this way, Cannon uncovers the dialectical nature of the left/right relationship in contemporary Latin American politics, while simultaneously providing pointers as to how the left can respond to the challenge of the right’s resurgence in the current context of left retrenchment. Cannon’s multi-faceted inter-disciplinary approach, including original research among right-leaning actors in the region makes the book an essential reference not only for those interested in the contemporary Latin American right but for anyone interested in the region’s politics at a critical juncture in its history.
The Resilience of the Latin American Right
The Resilience of the Latin American Right - 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 The Resilience of the Latin American Right write by Juan Pablo Luna. This book was released on 2014-09. The Resilience of the Latin American Right available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Students and scholars of both Latin American politics and comparative politics will find The Resilience of the Latin American Right of vital interest.
Gender and the Politics of Rights and Democracy in Latin America
Gender and the Politics of Rights and Democracy 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 Gender and the Politics of Rights and Democracy in Latin America write by Maxine Molyneux. This book was released on 2016-01-28. Gender and the Politics of Rights and Democracy in Latin America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This volume assesses one of the most important developments in contemporary Latin American women's movements: the engagement with rights-based discourses. Organised women have played a central role in the continued struggle for democracy in the region and with it gender justice. The foregrounding of human rights, and within them the recognition of women's rights, has offered women a strategic advantage in pursuing their goals of an inclusive citizenship. The country-based chapters analyse specific bodies of rights: rights and representation, domestic violence, labour rights, reproductive rights, legal advocacy, socio-economic rights, rights and ethnicity, and rights, the state and autonomy.
Conservative Parties, the Right, and Democracy in Latin America
Conservative Parties, the Right, and Democracy 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 Conservative Parties, the Right, and Democracy in Latin America write by Kevin J. Middlebrook. This book was released on 2000-09-29. Conservative Parties, the Right, and Democracy in Latin America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Under what conditions do political institutions develop that are capable of promoting economic and social elites' accommodation to democracy? The importance of this question for research on regime change and democracy in Latin America lies in two established political facts: alliances between upper-class groups and the armed forces have historically been a major cause of military intervention in the region, and countries with electorally viable national conservative parties have experienced significantly longer periods of democratic governance since the 1920s and 1930s than have countries with weak conservative parties. The contributors to this book examine the relationship between the Right and democracy in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, El Salvador, Peru, and Venezuela during the 1980s and 1990s. The authors focus particularly on the challenges that democratization may pose to upper-class groups; the political role of conservative parties and their electoral performance during these two crucial decades; and the relationships among conservative party strength or weakness, different modes of elite interest representation, and economic and social elites' support for political democracy. The volume includes a statistical appendix with data on conservative parties' electoral performance in national elections during the 1980s and 1990s in these seven countries. Contributors: Atilio A. Borón, Universidad de Buenos Aires • Catherine M. Conaghan, Queen's University • Michael Coppedge, University of Notre Dame • John C. Dugas, Kalamazoo College • Manuel Antonio Garretón, Universidad de Chile • Scott Mainwaring, University of Notre Dame • Rachel Meneguello, Universidade de Campinas • Kevin J. Middlebrook, University of California, San Diego • Timothy J. Power, Florida International University • Elisabeth J. Wood, New York University.
Constitutional Protection of Human Rights in Latin America
Constitutional Protection of Human Rights 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 Constitutional Protection of Human Rights in Latin America write by Allan R. Brewer-Carías. This book was released on 2009. Constitutional Protection of Human Rights in Latin America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book examines the most recent trends in the constitutional and legal regulations in all Latin American countries regarding the amparo proceeding. It analyzes the regulations of the seventeen amparo statutes in force in Latin America, as well as the regulation on the amparo guarantee established in Article 25 of the American Convention of Human Rights.
