Politics of Latin America
Subtitle: the power game
By: Harry E. Vanden, Gary Prevost
Contributors: Prevost, Gary
Edition: 4th ed.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 633
ISBN-13: 9780199797141
Subjects: Politics and government
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: 1. An introduction to twenty-first century Latin America; title: 2. Early history; title: 3. Democracy, dictators, and Tío Sam: a historical overview from independence to the present day; title: 4. The other Americans; title: 5. Society, family, and gender; title: 6. Religion in Latin America; title: 7. The political economy of Latin America; title: 8. Democracy and authoritarianism: Latin American political culture; title: 9. Politics, power, institutions, and actors; title: 10. Struggling for change: revolution, social and political movements in Latin America; title: 11. U.S.-Latin American relations; title: 12. Guatemala / Susanne Jonas; title: 13. Mexico / Nora Hamilton; title: 14. Cuba / Gary Prevost; title: 15. Brazil / Wilber Albert Chaffee; title: 16. Argentina / Aldo C. Vacs; title: 17. Chile / Eduardo Silva; title: 18. Venezuela / Daniel Hellinger; title: 19. Colombia / John C. Dugas; title: 20. Nicaragua / Gary Prevost and Harry E. Vanden; title: 21. Bolivia / Waltraud Q. Morales; title: Appendix 1: Presidential elections; title: Appendix 2: Recent Legislative elections.