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Books reviewed in this issue. Carmen Diana Deere and Frederick S. Royce, eds., Rural Social Movements in Latin America: Organizing for Sustainable Livelihoods. Enrique Mayer, Ugly Stories of the Peruvian Agrarian Reform. Daniel H. Levine and José E. Molina, eds., The Quality of Democracy in Latin America Denise M. Walsh, Women's Rights in Democratizing States: Just Debate and Gender Justice in the Public Sphere. Jane S. Jaquette, ed., Feminist Agendas and Democracy in Latin America. Ana Margheritis, Argentina's Foreign Policy: Domestic Politics and Democracy Promotion in the Americas. Luiz Carlos Bresser‐Pereira, Developing Brazil: Overcoming the Failure of the Washington Consensus. Juan E. De Castro and Nicholas Birns, eds., Vargas Llosa and Latin American Politics. Ronald Bruce St John, Toledo's Peru: Vision and Reality.     

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Books reviewed in this issue. Carlos de la Torre and Cynthia J. Arnson, eds., Latin American Populism in the Twenty‐First Century. Todd A. Eisenstadt, Michael S. Danielson, Moisés Jaime Bailón Corres, and Carlos Sorroza Polo, eds., Latin America's Multicultural Movements: The Struggle Between Communitarianism, Autonomy, and Human Rights. Stephen B. Kaplan, Globalization and Austerity Politics in Latin America. Jorge Lanzaro, ed., Presidencialismo y parlamentarismo América Latina y Europa Meridional: Argentina, Brasil, Chile, España, Italia, México, Portugal y Uruguay. William Michael Schmidli, The Fate of Freedom Elsewhere: Human Rights and U.S. Cold War Policy Toward Argentina. Aaron Schneider, State‐Building and Tax Regimes in Central America. Dag Mossige, Mexico's Left: The Paradox of the PRD. Peter H. Smith and Andrew Selee, eds., Mexico and the United States: The Politics of Partnership.     

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Books reviewed: Grandin, Greg (2004) The Last Colonial Massacre: Latin America in the Cold War. Domínguez, Francisco and Guedes de Oliveira, Marcos (eds) (2004) Mercosur: Between Integration and Democracy Shadlen, Kenneth (2004) Democratization without Representation. The Politics of Small Industry in Mexico. Garreton, Manuel Antonio (2003) Incomplete Democracy. Political Democratization in Chile and Latin America. Bennett, Vivienne, Dávila‐Poblete, Sonia and Nieves Rico, María (eds) (2005) Opposing Currents: The Politics of Water and Gender in Latin America. Schneider, Ben Ross (2004) Business Politics and the State in Twentieth‐Century Latin America. de Ferranti, David, Perry, Guillermo E., Ferreira, Francisco H.G. and Walton, Michael (2004) Inequality in Latin America: Breaking with History? Van Oss, A.C. (2003) Church and Society in Spanish America. Florescano, Enrique and García Acosta, Virginia (eds) (2004) Mestizajes tecnológicos y cambios culturales en México. Weiner, Richard (2004) Race, Nation, and Market: Economic Culture in Porfirian Mexico. Dawson, Alexander S. (2004) Indian and Nation in Revolutionary Mexico. Newcomer, Daniel (2004) Reconciling Modernity: Urban State Formation in 1940s León, Mexico. Olsen, Margaret (2004) Slavery and Salvation in Colonial Cartagena de Indias. Larson, Brooke (2004) Trials of Nation Making: Liberalism, Race, and Ethnicity in the Andes. Christiansen, Tanja (2004) Disobedience, Slander, Seduction, and Assault: Women and Men in Cajamarca, Peru, 1862–1900. Watanabe, John M. and Fischer, Edward F. (eds) (2004) Pluralizing Ethnography: Comparison and Representation in Maya Cultures, Histories, and Identities. Knab, Timothy (2004) The Dialogue of Earth and Sky: Dreams, Souls, Curing, and the Modern Aztec Underworld. Kuss, Malena (ed) (2004) Music in Latin America and the Caribbean: An Encyclopedic History, Volume 1, Performing Beliefs: Indigenous Peoples of South America, Central America and Mexico. Burgos, Raúl (2004) Los gramscianos argentinos: cultura y política en la experiencia de Pasado y Presente. Dorfman, Ariel (2004) Other Septembers, Many Americas: Selected Provocations 1980–2004.     

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Books reviewed in this issue. Gian Luca Gardini and Peter Lambert, eds., Latin American Foreign Policies: Between Ideology and Pragmatism. Benjamin Goldfrank, Deepening Local Democracy in Latin America: Participation, Decentralization, and the Left. Steven Levitsky and Kenneth M. Roberts, eds., The Resurgence of the Latin American Left. Mark Ungar, Policing Democracy: Overcoming Obstacles to Citizen Security in Latin America. Serena Cosgrove, Leadership from the Margins: Women and Civil Society Organizations in Argentina, Chile, and El Salvador. Matthew R. Cleary, The Sources of Democratic Responsiveness in Mexico. David Smilde and Daniel Hellinger, eds., Venezuela's Bolivarian Democracy: Participation, Politics, and Culture Under Chávez.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Feinberg, Richard E. Summitry in the Americas: A Progress Report. Lipsey, Richard G., and Patricio Meller, eds. Western Hemisphere Trade Integration: A Canadian-Latin American Dialogue. Gill, Anthony. Rendering unto Caesar: The Catholic Church and the State in Latin America. Joyce, Elizabeth, and Carlos Malamud, eds. Latin America and the Multinational Drug Trade. Korzeniewicz, Roberto Patricio, and William C. Smith, eds. Latin America in the World Economy. Smith, William C., and Roberto Patricio Korzeniewicz, eds. Politics, Social Change, and Economic Restructuring in Latin America. Tardanico, Richard, and Rafael Menjívar Larín, eds. Global Restructuring, Employment, and Social Inequality in Urban Latin America. Peeler, John A. Building Democracy in Latin America. Atkins, G. Pope, and Larman C. Wilson. The Dominican Republic and the United States: From Imperialism to Transnationalism. The United States and the Americas series, vol. 11. Hartlyn, Jonathan. The Struggle for Democratic Politics in the Dominican Republic. Falcoff, Mark. Panama's Canal: What Happens When the United States Gives a Small Country What It Wants.     

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Books reviewed in this issue. Magda Hinojosa, Selecting Women, Electing Women: Political Representation and Candidate Selection in Latin America. Katherine Hite and Mark Ungar, eds., Sustaining Human Rights in the Twenty‐First Century: Strategies from Latin America. Diana Kapiszewski, High Courts and Economic Governance in Argentina and Brazil. Patricia Richards, Race and the Chilean Miracle: Neoliberalism, Democracy, and Indigenous Rights. Emma Cervone, Long Live Atahualpa: Indigenous Politics, Justice, and Democracy in the Northern Andes. Guadalupe Correa‐Cabrera, Democracy in “Two Mexicos”: Political Institutions in Oaxaca and Nuevo León.     

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Books reviewed in this issue. Mark Goodale and Nancy Postero, eds., Neoliberalism, Interrupted: Social Change and Contested Governance in Contemporary Latin America. Brodwyn Fischer, Bryan McCann, and Javier Auyero, eds., Cities From Scratch: Poverty and Informality in Urban Latin America. Bryan McCann, Hard Times in the Marvelous City: From Dictatorship to Democracy in the Favelas of Rio de Janeiro. Ernesto Calvo, Legislator Success in Fragmented Congresses in Argentina: Plurality Cartels, Minority Presidents, and Lawmaking. Michelle D. Bonner, Policing Protest in Argentina and Chile. Keisha‐Khan Y. Perry, Black Women Against the Land Grab: The Fight for Racial Justice in Brazil. Keri Vacanti Brondo, Land Grab: Green Neoliberalism, Gender, and Garifuna Resistance in Honduras. Cath Collins, Katherine Hite, and Alfredo Joignant, eds., The Politics of Memory in Chile: From Pinochet to Bachelet. Catherine Krull, ed., Cuba in a Global Context: International Relations, Internationalism, and Transnationalism. Willibald Sonnleitner, Elecciones chiapanecas: del régimen posrevolucionario al desorden democrático. George Ciccariello‐Maher, We Created Chávez: A People's History of the Venezuelan Revolution. Arturo C. Sotomayor, The Myth of the Democratic Peacekeeper: Civil‐Military Relations and the United Nations.     

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Books reviewed in this issue. Ruth Berins Collier and Samuel Handlin, eds., Reorganizing Popular Politics: Participation and the New Interest Regime in Latin America. Jean Grugel and Pía Riggirozzi, eds., Governance After Neoliberalism in Latin America. Leonardo Avritzer, Participatory Institutions in Democratic Brazil. Silvia Borzutzky and Gregory B. Weeks, eds., The Bachelet Government: Conflict and Consensus in Post‐Pinochet Chile. Michelle L. Dion, Workers and Welfare: Comparative Institutional Change in Twentieth‐Century Mexico. Jaymie Patricia Heilman, Before the Shining Path: Politics in Rural Ayacucho, 1895–1980. James W. McGuire, Wealth, Health, and Democracy in East Asia and Latin America.     

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Books reviewed in this issue. John Burdick, Philip Oxhorn, and Kenneth M. Roberts, eds., Beyond Neoliberalism in Latin America? Societies and Politics at the Crossroads. John M. Carey, Legislative Voting and Accountability. Lídice M. Gómez Mango and Guzmán Carriquiry Lecour, Perspectivas de un reencuentro de las lenguas española y portuguesa. Donna Lee Van Cott, Radical Democracy in the Andes. Brian Wampler, Participatory Budgeting in Brazil: Contestation, Cooperation, and Accountability. Lisa Hilbink, Judges Beyond Politics in Democracy and Dictatorship: Lessons from Chile. Patricio Silva, In the Name of Reason: Technocrats and Politics in Chile. Santiago Levy, Good Intentions, Bad Outcomes: Social Policy, Informality, and Economic Growth in Mexico. Steve Ellner, Rethinking Venezuelan Politics: Class, Conflict, and the Chávez Phenomenon.     

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Books reviewed in this issue. Gretchen Helmke and Julio Ríos‐Figueroa, eds., Courts in Latin America. Ksenija Bilbija and Leigh A. Payne, eds., Accounting for Violence: Marketing Memory in Latin America. J. Tyler Dickovick, Decentralization and Recentralization in the Developing World: Comparative Studies from Africa and Latin America. Andreas Tsolakis, The Reform of the Bolivian State: Domestic Politics in the Context of Globalization. Luis Roniger, Transnational Politics in Central America. María Clemencia Ramírez, Between the Guerrillas and the State: The Cocalero Movement, Citizenship, and Identity in the Colombian Amazon. Kenneth J. Mijeski and Scott H. Beck, Pachakutik and the Rise and Decline of the Ecuadorian Indigenous Movement. Todd A. Eisenstadt, Politics, Identity, and Mexico's Indigenous Rights Movements. David Close, Salvador Martí i Puig, and Shelley A. McConnell, eds., The Sandinistas and Nicaragua Since 1979. Olga M. González, Unveiling Secrets of War in the Peruvian Andes. George Philip and Francisco Panizza, The Triumph of Politics: The Return of the Left in Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador.     

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Books reviewed in this issue. José Antonio Cheibub, Presidentialism, Parliamentarism, and Democracy. Aníbal Pérez‐Liñán, Presidential Impeachment and the New Political Instability in latin America. Thomas Legler, Sharon F. Lean, and Dexter S. Boniface, eds., Promoting Democracy in the Americas. Alex Segura‐Ubiergo, The Political Economy of the Welfare State in Latin America: Globalization, Democracy, and Development. Hernán A. Silva, ed, Los caminos del MERCOSUR: historia económica regional etapa colonial. Kathryn Hochstetler and Margaret E. Keck, Greening Brazil: Environmental Activism in State and Society. Jeffrey Lesser, A Discontented Diaspora: Japanese Brazilians and the Meanings of Ethnic Militancy, 1960‐1980. Alex Dupuy, The Prophet and the Power: Jean‐Bertrand Aristide, the International Community, and Haiti. Baron L. Pineda, Shipwrecked Identities: Navigating Race on Nicaragua's Mosquito Coast. René D. Harder Horst, The Stroessner Regime and Indigenous Resistance in Paraguay. Frank O. Mora and Jerry W. Cooney, Paraguay and the United States: Distant Allies.     

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Book reviewed in this article: Centeno, Miguel A., and Patricio Silva, eds. The Politics of Expertise in Latin America. Fitch, J. Samuel. The Armed Forces and Democracy in Latin America. Oxhorn, Philip, and Pamela K. Starr, eds. Markets and Democracy in Latin America: Conflict or Convergence? Tuman, John P., and John T. Morris, eds. Transforming the Latin American Automobile Industry: Unions, Workers, and the Politics of Restructuring. Riordan Roett, ed. MERCOSUR: Regional Integration, World Markets. Inglehart, Ronald F., Neil Nevitte, and Miguel Basañez. The North American Trajectory: Cultural, Economic, and Political Ties Among the United States, Canada, and Mexico. Van Dijck, Pitou, ed. The Bolivian Experiment: Structural Adjustment and Poverty Alleviation. Triay, Victor Andrés. Fleeing Castro: Operation Pedro Pan and the Cuban Children's Program. Williams, Philip J., and Knut Walter. Militarization and Demilitarization in El Salvador's Transition to Democracy. Cullather, Nick. Secret History: The CIA's Classified Account of Its Operations in Guatemala, 1952–1954. Malone, David M. Decision‐making in the U.N. Security Council: The Case of Haiti.     

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Books reviewed in this issue. Craig Arceneaux and David Pion‐Berlin, Transforming Latin America: The International and Domestic Origins of Change. Steven Levitsky and María Victoria Murillo, eds., Argentine Democracy: The Politics of Institutional Weakness. Benjamin Kohl and Linda Farthing, Impasse in Bolivia: Neoliberal Hegemony and Popular Resistance. Consuelo Cruz, Political Culture and Institutional Development in Costa Rica and Nicaragua: World Making in the Tropics. Carmelo Mesa‐Lago and Jorge Pérez‐López, Cuba's Aborted Reform: Socioeconomic Effects, International Comparisons, and Transition Policies. Damián J. Fernández, ed., Cuba Transnational. Paul Lawrence Haber, Power from Experience: Urban Popular Movements in Late‐Twentieth‐Century Mexico. Leslie Anderson and Lawrence Dodd, Learning Democracy: Citizen Engagement and Electoral Choice in Nicaragua, 1990‐2001. Jeremy M. Weinstein, Inside Rebellion: The Politics of Insurgent Violence.     

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Mauricio Font, The State and the Private Sector in Latin America: The Shift to Partnership. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015. Figure, bibliography, appendixes, index, 318 pp.; hardcover $100, ebook $79.99. Tracy Beck Fenwick, Avoiding Governors: Federalism, Democracy, and Poverty Alleviation in Brazil and Argentina. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2016. Tables, figures, acronyms, bibliography, index, 277 pp.; hardcover $75, paperback $29. Michael Reid, Brazil: The Troubled Rise of a Global Power. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2016 [2014]. Illustrations, 352 pp.; paperback $22. Ben Ross Schneider, ed., New Order and Progress: Development and Democracy in Brazil. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. Tables, figures, bibliography, index, 328 pp.; hardcover $99, paperback $31.95, ebook. Anthony P. Maingot, Race, Ideology, and the Decline of Caribbean Marxism. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2015. Index, 368 pp.; hardcover $79.95. Sebastián Ureta, Assembling Policy: Transantiago, Human Devices, and the Dream of a World‐Class Society. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2015. Photographs, figures, abbreviations, bibliography, index, 224 pp.; hardcover $39, ebook $27. Carlos de la Torre, De Velasco a Correa: insurreciones, populismos y elecciones en Ecuador, 1944–2013. Quito: Corporación Editora Nacional, 2015. Tables, bibliography, 243 pp.; paperback. Sebastian E. Bitar, US Military Bases, Quasi‐Bases, and Domestic Politics in Latin America. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2016. Map, figures, tables, notes, bibliography, index, 220 pp.; hardcover $110, ebook $79.99.     

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Books reviewed in this issue. Cynthia J. Arnson, ed., In the Wake of War: Democratization and Internal Armed Conflict in Latin America. Sebastián Etchemendy, Models of Economic Liberalization: Business, Workers, and Compensation in Latin America, Spain, and Portugal. Carlos de la Torre and Cynthia J. Arnson, eds., Latin American Populism in the Twenty‐First Century. Edward L. Gibson, Boundary Control: Subnational Authoritarianism in Federal Democracies. Arie M. Kacowicz, Globalization and the Distribution of Wealth: The Latin American Experience, 1982–2008. Jason Pierceson, Adriana Piatti‐Crocker, and Shawn Schulenberg, eds., Same‐Sex Marriage in Latin America: Promise and Resistance. Rebecca Neaera Abers and Margaret E. Keck, Practical Authority: Agency and Institutional Change in Brazilian Water Politics. Diana Villiers Negroponte, Seeking Peace in El Salvador: The Struggle to Reconstruct a Nation at the End of the Cold War. Clark Taylor, Seeds of Freedom: Liberating Education in Guatemala.     

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Books reviewed in this article: Jorge I. Domínguez and Michael Shifter (eds.), Constructing Democratic Governance in Latin America Samuel L. Baily and Eduardo José Míguez (eds.), Mass Migration to Modern Latin America Mala Htun, Sex and the State: Abortion, Divorce and the Family Under Latin American Dictatorships and Democracies Nikki Craske and Maxine Molyneux (eds.), Gender and the Politics of Rights and Democracy in Latin America William I. Robinson, Transnational Conflicts: Central America, Social Change and Globalization Martín Hopenhayn, No Apocalypse, No Integration. Modernism and Post Modernism in Latin America Rei Kimura, President Fujimori of Peru: The President Who Dared to Dream David Cahill, From Rebellion to Independence in the Andes: Soundings from Southern Peru, 1750‐1830 Gregory Weeks, The Military and Politics in Postauthoritarian Chile Alberto Spektorowski, The Origins of Argentina's Revolution of the Right Raanan Rein, Argentina, Israel and the Jews. Perón, the Eichmann capture and after Anne Fountain, José Martí and U.S. Writers Salvador A. Oropesa, The Contemporáneos Group: Rewriting Mexico in the Thirties and Forties Floyd Merrell, The Mexicans: A Sense of Culture Matthew C. Gutmann, The Romance of Democracy: Compliant Defiance in Contemporary Mexico Martha Menchaca, Recovering History, Constructing Race: the Indian, Black and White Roots of Mexican Americans Jeremy A. Sabloff (ed.), Tikal: Dynasties, Foreigners, & Affairs of State: Advancing Maya Archaeology Jan M. G. Kleinpenning, Paraguay 1515‐1870; a Thematic Geography of its Development Alicia Gaspar de Alba (ed.), Velvet Barrios: Popular Culture & Chicana/o Subjectivities Sue Branford and Bernardo Kucinski, Politics Transformed: Lula and the Workers' Party Javier Auyero, Contentious Lives. Two Argentine Women, Two Protests and the Quest for Recognition Steven Levitsky, Transforming Labor‐Based Parties in Latin America. Argentine Peronism in Comparative Perspective     

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Books reviewed in this issue. Enrique Desmond Arias and Daniel M. Goldstein, eds., Violent Democracies in Latin America. Maxwell A. Cameron and Eric Hershberg, eds., Latin America's Left Turns: Politics, Policies, and Trajectories of Change. Sebastian Edwards, Left Behind: Latin America and the False Promise of Populism. Niels Uildriks, ed., Policing Insecurity: Police Reform, Security, and Human Rights in Latin America. Mercedes S. Hinton and Tim Newburn, eds., Policing Developing Democracies. James Mahoney, Colonialism and Postcolonial Development: Spanish America in Comparative Perspective. James N. Green, We Cannot Remain Silent: Opposition to the Brazilian Military Dictatorship in the United States. Cath Collins, Post‐transitional Justice: Human Rights Trials in Chile and El Salvador. Ralph S. Clem and Anthony P. Maingot, eds., Venezuela's Petro‐Diplomacy: Hugo Chávez's Foreign Policy.     

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Canache, Damarys and Kulisheck, Michael (eds.) (1998), Reinventing Legitimacy: Democracy and Political Change in Venezuela. Mauceri, Philip (1998), State under Siege: Development and Policy Making in Peru. Ruth Berins Collier (1999), Paths Toward Democracy: The Working Class and Elites in Western Europe and Soth America. Sommer, Doris (ed.) (1999), The Places of History: Regionalism Revisited in Latin America. Rodr1Hguez‐Luis, Julio (ed.) (1999), Re‐Reading JoseHMartiH: One Hundred Years Later. Taylor, William B. (1996), Magistrates of the Sacred: Priests and Parishioners in Eighteenth‐Century Mexico. Purnell, Jennie. (1999), Popular Movements and State Formation in Revolutionary Mexico: The Agraristas and Cristeros of Michoacan. Evans, Sterling (1999), The Green Republic: A Conservation History of Costa Rica. Arthur, Charles and Dash, Michael (eds.) (1999), A Haiti Anthology: Libete. Sheahan, John (1999), Searching for a Better Society: The Peruvian Economy from 1950. Lesser, Je4rey (1999), Negotiating National Identity: Immigrants, Minorities, and the Struggle for Ethnicity in Brazil. Hanchard, Michael (ed.) (1999), Racial Politics in Contemporary Brazil. Brooke, Larson (1998), Cochabamba, 1550–1900: Colonialism and Agrarian Transformation in Bolivia. Gilderhus, Mark T. (2000), The Second Century: U.S.+Latin American Relations Since 1889. Palermo, Vicente and Novaro, Marcos (1996), Pol1Htica y poder en el gobierno de Menem. Tedesco, Laura (1999), Democracy in Argentina: Hope and Disillusion. Owensby, Brian P. (1999), Intimate Ironies: Modernity and The Making of Middle‐Class Lives in Brazil. Field, Les W. (1999), The Grimace of Macho Raton Artisans, Identity and Nation in Late 20th Century Western Nicaragua. Pichon, Francisco, Uquillas, Jorje and Frechione, John (eds.) (1999), Traditional and Modern Natural Resource Management in Latin America. Wilson, Fiona (ed.) (1999), Violencia y Espacio Social: Estudios Sobre Conflicto y Recuperacion. Koonings, Kees and Kruijt, Dirk (eds.) (1999), Societies of Fear. The Legacy of Civil War, Violence and Terror in Latin America.     

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Books reviewed in this issue. Cristian C. Baeza and Truman G. Packard, Beyond Survival: Protecting Households from Health Shocks in Latin America. Eduardo Duhalde, Comunidad sudamericana: logros y desafíos de la integración. Enrique Peruzzotti and Catalina Smulovitz, eds., Enforcing the Rule of Law: Social Accountability in the New Latin American Democracies. Laurence Wolff, Juan Carlos Navarro, and Pablo González, eds., Private Education and Public Policy in Latin America. Lessie Jo Frazier, Salt in the Sand: Memory, Violence, and the Nation‐State in Chile, 1890 to the Present. Carlos Huneeus, The Pinochet Regime. Translated by Lake Sagaris. J. Christopher Kovats‐Bernat, Sleeping Rough in Port‐au‐Prince: An Ethnography of Street Children and Violence in Haiti. Teresa Alfaro‐Velcamp, So Far from Allah, So Close to Mexico: Middle Eastern Immigrants in Modern Mexico. John Tofik Karam, Another Arabesque: Syrian‐Lebanese Ethnicity in Neoliberal Brazil. Alberto Ulloa Bornemann, Surviving Mexico's Dirty War: A Political Prisoner's Memoir. Lewis Taylor, Shining Path: Guerrilla War in Peru's Northern Highlands, 1980–1997.     

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Books reviewed in this issue. Stephen D. Morris and Charles H. Blake, eds., Corruption and Politics in Latin America: National and Regional Dynamics. Javier A. Couso, Alexandra Huneeus, and Rachel Sieder, eds., Cultures of Legality: Judicialization and Political Activism in Latin America. Eduardo Silva, Challenging Neoliberalism in Latin America. James P. Brennan and Marcelo Rougier, The Politics of National Capitalism: Peronism and the Argentine Bourgeoisie, 1946–1976. Andrés Mejía Acosta, Informal Coalitions and Policymaking in Latin America: Ecuador in Comparative Perspective. Karem Roitman, Race, Ethnicity, and Power in Ecuador: The Manipulation of Mestizaje. Jeffrey K. Staton, Judicial Power and Strategic Communication in Mexico. Leslie E. Anderson, Social Capital in Developing Democracies: Nicaragua and Argentina Compared.