This book analyzes [ejido] land as space of urbanization and location of economic activities and capital and land privatization as a redistributive process with local, urban, regional and global consequences.
This book analyzes [ejido] land as space of urbanization and location of economic activities and capital and land privatization as a redistributive pr...
This book examines the political and developmental implications of the new information and communication technologies (NICT) in the Developing World.
This book examines the political and developmental implications of the new information and communication technologies (NICT) in the Developing World.
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The purpose of this study is to focus on the intersection of religion and politics. Do different religions result in different politics? More specifically, are there significant contrasts between the political attitudes and behaviour of Catholics and Protestants in Latin America?
The purpose of this study is to focus on the intersection of religion and politics. Do different religions result in different politics? More specific...
This work analyses the interactions and international connections of the 'civil rights' and 'pro-order' coalitions of state and societal actors in Argentina and Chile.
This work analyses the interactions and international connections of the 'civil rights' and 'pro-order' coalitions of state and societal actors in Arg...
This work explains the causes of social policy reform in Chile and Uruguay in the areas of health care, pensions and education. Until the 1970s, Chile and Uruguay shared striking similarities.
This work explains the causes of social policy reform in Chile and Uruguay in the areas of health care, pensions and education. Until the 1970s, Chile...
This book analyzes the history and structure of the intricate system of informal negotiation and secret dealings between the Mexican government and big businessmen in the process of Mexican industrialization between 1936 and 1984. In order to do this, State and Business Groups in Mexico develops a new theory about the operation of formal and informal political institutions, which is fully applicable to every other region of the world. This book is not only an essential tool for the expert in the study of social, political and economic institutions, but also a required reading for all...
This book analyzes the history and structure of the intricate system of informal negotiation and secret dealings between the Mexican government and bi...
This book analyzes the problems that arise when women's rights conflict with the views of conservative organized religion.
Specifically, it addresses the legalization - or lack thereof - of divorce and abortion in three recently democratized Catholic countries: Spain, Chile, and Argentina. Offering a vital and timely contribution to political debates on democratic consolidation, social policy, gender, politics and religion, it challenges many of the accepted assumptions and conclusions in these fields, arguing that to understand the political dynamics and policy trajectories on...
This book analyzes the problems that arise when women's rights conflict with the views of conservative organized religion.
This book explores environmental policymaking in Mexico as a vehicle to understanding the broader changes in the policy process within a system undergoing a democratic transformation. It constitutes the first major analysis of environmental policymaking in Mexico at the national level, and examines the implementation of forestry policy in Mexico's largest rain forest, the Selva Lacandona of the state of Chiapas.
This book explores environmental policymaking in Mexico as a vehicle to understanding the broader changes in the policy process within a system underg...
This book analyzes the development of female prostitution in the Pacific port of Puntarenas, Costa Rica during the advanced stage of the coffee exporting economy (1880-1930), at the height of the consolidation of the liberal state. Hayes argues that prostitution in the port differed from that of the coffee producing highlands due to differential economic, social, and political development. In the periphery of Puntarenas, the development of prostitution reflected a less stigmatized view of sexual commerce than that of the highlands, where prostitution, although legal, threatened the tenets...
This book analyzes the development of female prostitution in the Pacific port of Puntarenas, Costa Rica during the advanced stage of the coffee exp...
