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This book uses case studies of Costa Rica and Guatemala to explore the origins of democracy and authoritarianism, developing a novel theoretical approach based around the concept of coalition. Costa Rica is the longest-standing and arguably the most stable democracy in Latin America, while Guatemala has among the longest and most brutal records of authoritarian rule in Latin America. The author demonstrates that prior to the 1950s, these two countries followed broadly similar patterns of political change and development. She argues that the democratizing coalition's success in Costa Rica and its failure in Guatemala rested upon the coalition's capacity to redistribute elite property early on and to exercise effective political control of the countryside. The distinct theoretical approach integrates an analysis of the conditions fostering democracy with those conducive to its endurance.

Authoritarianism --- Democracy --- Autoritarisme --- Démocratie --- Costa Rica --- Guatemala --- Politics and government --- Politique et gouvernement --- Politics and government. --- Démocratie

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Why has violence spiked in Latin America's contemporary democracies? What explains its temporal and spatial variation? Analyzing the region's uneven homicide levels, this book maps out a theoretical agenda focusing on three intersecting factors: the changing geography of transnational illicit political economies; the varied capacity and complicity of state institutions tasked with providing law and order; and organizational competition to control illicit territorial enclaves. These three factors inform the emergence of 'homicidal ecologies' (subnational regions most susceptible to violence) in Latin America. After focusing on the contemporary causes of homicidal violence, the book analyzes the comparative historical origins of weak and complicit public security forces and the rare moments in which successful institutional reform takes place. Regional trends in Latin America are evaluated, followed by original case studies of Central America, which claims among the highest homicide rates in the world.

Violence --- Civil war --- Crime --- Democratization --- Democracy --- City crime --- Crime and criminals --- Crimes --- Delinquency --- Felonies --- Misdemeanors --- Urban crime --- Social problems --- Criminal justice, Administration of --- Criminal law --- Criminals --- Criminology --- Transgression (Ethics) --- Civil wars --- Intra-state war --- Rebellions --- Government, Resistance to --- International law --- Revolutions --- War --- Violent behavior --- Social psychology --- Political aspects --- Social aspects --- Economic aspects --- Central America --- Social conditions.

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Latin America has been one of the critical areas in the study of comparative politics. The region?s experiments with installing and deepening democracy and promoting alternative modes of economic development have generated intriguing and enduring empirical puzzles. In turn, Latin America?s challenges continue to spawn original and vital work on central questions in comparative politics: about the origins of democracy; about the relationship between state and society; about the nature of citizenship; about the balance between state and market. The richness and diversity of the study of Latin American politics makes it hard to stay abreast of the developments in the many sub-literatures of the field. The Routledge Handbook of Latin American Politics offers an intellectually rigorous overview of the state of the field and a thoughtful guide to the direction of future scholarship. Kingstone and Yashar bring together the leading figures in the study of Latin America to present extensive empirical coverage, new original research, and a cutting-edge examination of the central areas of inquiry in the region.

Comparative government --- Régimes politiques --- Latin America --- Amérique latine --- Politics and government --- Politique et gouvernement --- Libéralisme économique --- Politics --- Amérique latine --- Politique économique --- Conditions sociales --- Relations extérieures --- Libéralisme économique --- Relations extérieures --- Politique économique

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Latin American states took dramatic steps toward greater inclusion during the late twentieth and early twenty-first Centuries. Bringing together an accomplished group of scholars, this volume examines this shift by introducing three dimensions of inclusion: official recognition of historically excluded groups, access to policymaking, and resource redistribution. Tracing the movement along these dimensions since the 1990s, the editors argue that the endurance of democratic politics, combined with longstanding social inequalities, create the impetus for inclusionary reforms. Diverse chapters explore how factors such as the role of partisanship and electoral clientelism, constitutional design, state capacity, social protest, populism, commodity rents, international diffusion, and historical legacies encouraged or inhibited inclusionary reform during the late 1990s and early 2000s. Featuring original empirical evidence and a strong theoretical framework, the book considers cross-national variation, delves into the surprising paradoxes of inclusion, and identifies the obstacles hindering further fundamental change.

Political participation --- Democracy --- Political culture --- Self-government --- Political science --- Equality --- Representative government and representation --- Republics --- Citizen participation --- Community action --- Community involvement --- Community participation --- Involvement, Community --- Mass political behavior --- Participation, Citizen --- Participation, Community --- Participation, Political --- Political activity --- Political behavior --- Political rights --- Social participation --- Political activists --- Politics, Practical --- Social aspects. --- Social aspects --- Latin America --- Asociación Latinoamericana de Libre Comercio countries --- Neotropical region --- Neotropics --- New World tropics --- Spanish America --- Politics and government --- Social policy

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