Politics in the Andes
Subtitle: identity, conflict, reform
By: edited by Jo-Marie Burt and Philip Mauceri.
Contributors: Burt, Jo-Marie.; Mauceri, Philip.
Series: Pitt Latin American series
Publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: Pittsburgh, Pa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 324
Subjects: Democracy -- Andes Region; Indians of South America -- Andes Region -- Ethnic identity.; Social change -- Andes Region -- History.; Violence -- Andes Region -- History.; Drug traffic -- Andes Region.; Andes Region -- Politics and government -- 20th century.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-310) and index.
Table of contents: title: Ethnic identity and politics in the Central Andes : the cases of Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru / Xavier Albó; title: Linking movement and electoral politics : Ecuador's indigenous movement and the rise of Pachakutik / Jennifer Collins; title: Engendering Andean politics : the paradoxes of women's movements in neoliberal Ecuador and Bolivia / Amy Lind; title: Dismembering and remembering the nation : the semantics of political violence in Venezuela / Fernando Coronil and Julie Skurski; title: State, esprit mafioso, and armed conflict in Colombia / Ricardo Vargas; title: Collateral damage : the U.S. "War on Drugs" and its impact on democracy in the Andes / Coletta A. Youngers; title: State, elites, and the response to insurgency : some preliminary comparisons between Colombia and Peru / Philip Mauceri; title: Human rights in the Andes : the defensoría del pueblo / Mark Ungar; title: State building, state dismantling, and financial crises in Ecuador / Liisa L. North; title: The struggle for hegemony in Venezuela : poverty, popular protest, and the future of democracy / Margarita López Maya and Luis E. Lander; title: The tense relationship between democracy and violence in Colombia, 1974-2001 / Francisco Gutiérrez Sanin and Luisa Ramírez Rueda; title: State-making against democracy : the case of Fujimori's Peru / Jo-Marie Burt.