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17164 results in Latin American government, politics and policy

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  • Comprensión del homicidio en las ciudades capitales colombianas. Un estudio de vulnerabilidad

  • Williams Gilberto Jiménez-García, Wilson Arenas-Valencia, Natalia Bohorquez-Bedoya
  • Journal:
    Latin American Research Review / Volume 59 / Issue 1 / March 2024
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    07 November 2023, pp. 19-38
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  • El presente artículo examina el fenómeno del homicidio en Colombia y busca comprender las condiciones de vulnerabilidad que afectan al homicidio en las ciudades colombianas. A través de un enfoque teórico y metodológico basado en la vulnerabilidad se analizó dicha relación entre la violencia homicida con los mercados ilegales, los mercados laborales pauperizados y la repartición de la riqueza. La muestra se compuso de las treinta y dos ciudades capitales departamentales de Colombia. Se usaron herramientas estadísticas multivariadas (PLS-SEM) para analizar la relación entre estos factores y el homicidio. Los hallazgos sugieren que los bajos ingresos, la falta de empleo, la desigualdad y la violencia están asociados con un mayor riesgo de homicidio.

Courts that Matter
  • Activists, Judges, and the Politics of Rights Enforcement
  • Sandra Botero
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    02 November 2023
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    16 November 2023
  • In Courts that Matter, Sandra Botero tackles a crucial question: Can courts advance socioeconomic rights? Using a rigorous comparative study of the impact of socioeconomic rights rulings in Colombia and Argentina, Botero argues that such decisions can be significantly impactful when courts deploy certain monitoring mechanisms and when legally empowered organizations in civil society are engaged in the outcome. The book includes case studies of landmark rulings on environmental, health, housing, and other socioeconomic rights and charts pathways for broader applicability through comparison with rulings by the Indian Supreme Court. The book demonstrates how Colombian and Argentine highest tribunals have, at times, successfully configured important new political spaces for the effective pursuit of public policy goals, in conjunction and dialogue with other social and political actors. This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access. Check our website Cambridge Core for details.

  • Surges vs. Waves: Presidents, Popularity, and the Diffusion of Conditional Cash Transfers in Latin America

  • Diego Vega
  • Journal:
    Latin American Politics and Society / Volume 66 / Issue 1 / February 2024
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    01 November 2023, pp. 77-105
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  • Conditional cash transfers (CCTs) are a striking case of policy diffusion in Latin America. Almost all countries in the region adopted the model within one decade. While most theories of diffusion focus on the international transference of ideas, this article explains that surge of adoptions by analyzing presidents’ expectations. Out of all ideas transmitted into a country, only a few find their way into enactment and implementation, and the executive has a key role in selecting which ones. Policies expected to boost presidents’ popularity grab their attention. They rapidly enact and implement these models. A process-tracing analysis comparing CCTs and public-private partnerships (PPPs) shows that presidents fast-tracked CCTs hoping for an increase in popular support. Adoptions of PPPs, however, followed normal procedures and careful deliberations because the policy was not expected to quickly affect popularity—which, in the aggregate, leads to a slower diffusion wave.

  • LAS volume 55 issue 4 Cover and Front matter

  • Journal:
    Journal of Latin American Studies / Volume 55 / Issue 4 / November 2023
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    24 January 2024, pp. f1-f5
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    November 2023
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  • Patricia Vilches (ed.), Negotiating Space in Latin America Brill, 2020, 331 pp.

  • Lorna Dillon
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    Journal of Latin American Studies / Volume 55 / Issue 4 / November 2023
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    24 January 2024, pp. 764-765
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    November 2023
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  • The National Legislatures in the Enlargement of Mercosur: Paraguay’s Acceptance of Venezuela and Bolivia

  • André Leite Araujo
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    Latin American Politics and Society / Volume 66 / Issue 1 / February 2024
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    01 November 2023, pp. 51-76
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  • Regional integration blocs are subject to the admission of new members, which must be approved by domestic institutions. This article analyzes how the incorporation of Venezuela and Bolivia into Mercosur passed in the Paraguayan Congress. While the first case lasted from 2007 to 2013, demonstrating parliamentary opposition, the second episode took place between 2015 and 2016, suggesting convergence between the executive and legislative branches on the issue. Using process tracing, the unveiled mechanism shows how government and opposition forces act to alter the duration of the bill in Congress and that political parties have a pendular behavior according to political cleavages. Moreover, the findings of this study suggest the existence of a parliamentary veto power in foreign affairs and the importance of having homogeneous coalitions to achieve faster approvals.

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