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  • LAS volume 50 issue 1 Cover and Back matter

  • Journal:
    Journal of Latin American Studies / Volume 50 / Issue 1 / February 2018
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    15 January 2018, pp. b1-b4
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    February 2018
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  • Setting the Regional Agenda: A Critique of Posthegemonic Regionalism

  • Mark Petersen, Carsten-Andreas Schulz
  • Journal:
    Latin American Politics and Society / Volume 60 / Issue 1 / February 2018
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    15 January 2018, pp. 102-127

  • There is a growing scholarly consensus that Latin American regionalism has entered a new phase. For some observers, the increasing complexity of regional cooperation initiatives renders collective action ineffective. For others, the creation of new schemes signals a “posthegemonic” moment that has opened a space for collaboration on social issues. Both camps attribute this shift to the absence of the United States and the presence of left-leaning governments. By contrast, this study demonstrates that this agenda is not new, nor has the United States impeded similar initiatives in the past. In fact, the United States was instrumental in expanding regional cooperation on social issues in the early twentieth century. Instead, this article argues that agenda shifts are best explained by an evolving consensus about the role of the state. The “new agenda” is in line with historical attempts by governments to use regionalism to bolster their own domestic reforms.

  • Electoral Reform Under Limited Party Competition: The Adoption of Proportional Representation in Latin America

  • Gabriel L. Negretto, Giancarlo Visconti
  • Journal:
    Latin American Politics and Society / Volume 60 / Issue 1 / February 2018
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    15 January 2018, pp. 27-51

  • The adoption of proportional representation in Western Europe has been portrayed as either a defensive or an offensive competition strategy used by established parties to deal with the rise of new parties under majoritarian electoral rules. Neither explanation accounts for PR reform in other regions of the world, where the change took place in the absence of increased party competition. Analyzing the history of electoral reform in Latin America, this article argues that in a context of limited party competition, the initial adoption of PR was part of a strategy of controlled political liberalization promoted by authoritarian rulers. Subdividing this general reasoning, the article shows that PR reform followed different paths depending on the nature of the authoritarian regime and the events that called into question the existing majoritarian electoral system. This argument is supported with a comparative historical analysis of cases within and across each route to reform.

  • LAS volume 50 issue 1 Cover and Front matter

  • Journal:
    Journal of Latin American Studies / Volume 50 / Issue 1 / February 2018
    Published online by Cambridge University Press:
    15 January 2018, pp. f1-f6
    Print publication:
    February 2018
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