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The articles in this book, by key specialists in the field, discuss a wide range of historical, economic, political and social issues and explore alternative approaches to understanding the Latin American pattern of development and change.

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• Preface(p. ix)
• Chapter 1 Introduction: Interpreting Latin America's Politics on its Own Terms(p. 1)
• Part I The Political Culture Framework(p. 15)
• Chapter 2 Patterns of Continuity in Latin American Society: Political and Historical Perspectives(p. 17)
• Chapter 3 Two Cultures and Political Behavior in Latin America(p. 37)
• Part II Historical Factors(p. 53)
• Chapter 4 The Latin American Tradition(p. 55)
• Chapter 5 The Spanish American Past: Enemy of Change(p. 69)
• Chapter 6 Science, Technology, and Hispanic America(p. 79)
• Chapter 7 Claims of Political Tradition(p. 91)
• Chapter 8 Historical Determinants of the Latin American State: The Tradition of Bureaucratic-Patrimonialism, Corporatism, Centralism, and Authoritarianism(p. 129)
• Part III Politics and Social Change(p. 151)
• Chapter 9 The Tradition of Higher Laws in Latin America(p. 153)
• Chapter 10 Latin America and Democracy(p. 167)
• Chapter 11 From El Cid to El Che: The Hero and the Mystique of Liberation in Latin America(p. 185)
• Chapter 12 Latin America's Magical Liberalism(p. 209)
• Chapter 13 The News about Religion in Latin America(p. 227)
• Part IV Foreign Policy Implications(p. 245)
• Chapter 14 On Democracy and Democratization(p. 247)
• Chapter 15 Consensus Found, Consensus Lost: Disjunctures in U.S. Policy Toward Latin America in the New Millennium(p. 267)
• Chapter 16 Conclusion(p. 283)
• Suggested Readings(p. 293)
• Index(p. 301)
• About the Contributors(p. 307)

Notas de autor provistas por Syndetics

Glen Caudill Dealy is professor of political science at Oregon State University
Roland H. Ebel is professor of political science emeritus at Tulane University in New Orleans
The late Irving A. Leonard held a joint appointment in history and Spanish at the University of Michigan
Daniel H. Levine is professor of political science at the University of Michigan
Dolores Moyano Martin, who grew up in Argentina with Che Guevara, is a Washington-based writer specializing in Latin American affairs
Richard M. Morse was for a long time professor of history at Yale University
Margaret MacLeish Mott is professor of political theory at Marlboro College in Vermont
Octavio Paz, the great Mexican novelist, historian, poet, essayist, and Renaissance man, was the recipient of the Nobel Prize for literature in 1990
Tina Rosenberg is an independent journalist and foreign affairs writer
Peter H. Smith is professor of political science and director of the center of Latin American studies at the University of California, San Diego
Raymond Taras is a professor of political science and literature at Tulane University
Howard J. Wiarda, is professor of political science and holder of the Leonard J. Horwitz chair in Iberian and Latin American studies at the University of Massachusetts
Donald E. Worcester taught for many years at the University of Florida and then Texas Christian University