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17184 results in Latin American government, politics and policy

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  • ‘Sovereign Parenting’ in Affluent Latin American Neighbourhoods: Race and the Politics of Childcare in Ipanema (Brazil) and El Condado (Puerto Rico)

  • Ana Y. Ramos-Zayas
  • Journal:
    Journal of Latin American Studies / Volume 51 / Issue 3 / August 2019
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    04 February 2019, pp. 639-663
    Print publication:
    August 2019

  • Drawing on ethnographic research conducted among parents living in the affluent neighbourhoods of Ipanema, Brazil, and El Condado, Puerto Rico, I examine how urban Latin American elites deployed their parenting practices as moral justification for their racial and class privilege (what I call ‘sovereign parenting’). One way in which they do this is by producing particular forms of affective relationships with their nannies. The women these upper-class parents hired were largely dark-skinned immigrants: from the Dominican Republic, to work in El Condado, and from the Brazilian Northeast, to work in Ipanema. I demonstrate how elites cultivated a form of ‘informality’ and expressions of care in relation to childcare workers in ways that not only produced whiteness as a pillar of Latin American liberalism, but also associated whiteness with the world of interiority and personal growth.

  • Culture, Politics and the Cold War: The Sociedad de Escritores de Chile in the 1950s

  • Jorge A. Nállim
  • Journal:
    Journal of Latin American Studies / Volume 51 / Issue 3 / August 2019
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    04 February 2019, pp. 549-571
    Print publication:
    August 2019

  • In the 1950s, the Sociedad de Escritores de Chile experienced bitter disputes caused by the efforts of the Chilean Committee for Cultural Freedom, the local branch of a major institution in the US cultural Cold War, to gain control of the association. These disputes reveal the role played by the cultural Cold War in the breakdown of older political and intellectual alliances in Chile. They also highlight the transnational networks that connected Chilean writers during the Cold War, and the complex articulation of local and international contexts and agendas that influenced Chilean cultural and political groups.

Buying Audiences
  • Clientelism and Electoral Campaigns When Parties Are Weak
  • Paula Muñoz
  • Published online:
    01 February 2019
    Print publication:
    13 December 2018
  • Scholars typically emphasize the importance of organized networks and long-term relationships for sustaining electoral clientelism. Yet electoral clientelism remains widespread in many countries despite the weakening of organized parties. This book offers a new account of how clientelism and campaigning work in weak party systems and in the absence of stable party-broker relationships. Drawing on an in-depth study of Peru using a mixed methods approach and cross-national comparisons, Muñoz reveals the informational and indirect effects of investments made at the campaign stage. By distributing gifts, politicians buy the participation of poor voters at campaign events. This helps politicians improvise political organizations, persuade poor voters of candidates' desirability, and signal electoral viability to strategic donors and voters, with campaign dynamics ultimately shaping electoral outcomes. Among other contributions, the book sheds new light on role of donations and business actors and on ongoing challenges to party building.

Building Participatory Institutions in Latin America
  • Reform Coalitions and Institutional Change
  • Lindsay Mayka
  • Published online:
    01 February 2019
    Print publication:
    07 February 2019
  • While prior studies have shown the importance of participatory institutions in strengthening civil society and in improving policy outcomes, we know much less about why some participatory institutions take root while others do not. This book explains the divergent trajectories of nationally mandated participatory institutions' 'stickiness' by highlighting the powerful and lasting impacts of their origins in different policy-reform projects. Mayka argues that participatory institutions take root when they are bundled into sweeping policy reforms, which upend the status quo and mobilize unexpected coalitions behind participatory institution building. In contrast, participatory institutions created through reforms focused on deepening democracy are easy for entrenched interests to dismantle and sideline. Building Participatory Institutions in Latin America draws on rich case studies of participatory institutions in Brazil and Colombia across three policy areas, offering the first cross-national comparative study of participatory institutions mandated at the national level.

  • LAS volume 51 issue 1 Cover and Front matter

  • Journal:
    Journal of Latin American Studies / Volume 51 / Issue 1 / February 2019
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    05 March 2019, pp. f1-f5
    Print publication:
    February 2019
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  • LAP volume 61 issue 1 Cover and Front matter

  • Journal:
    Latin American Politics and Society / Volume 61 / Issue 1 / February 2019
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    01 February 2019, pp. f1-f4
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