Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this issue. Katherine Isbester, ed., The Paradox of Democracy in Latin America: Ten Country Studies of Division and Resilience. Carlos Scartascini, Ernesto H. Stein, and Mariano Tommasi, eds., How Democracy Works: Political Institutions, Actors, and Arenas in Latin American Policymaking. Abraham F. Lowenthal, Theodore J. Piccone, and Laurence Whitehead, eds., Shifting the Balance: Obama and the Americas. Britta H. Crandall, Hemispheric Giants: The Misunderstood History of U.S.–Brazilian Relations. Claudio A. Holzner, Poverty of Democracy: The Institutional Roots of Political Participation in Mexico. Laura Enríquez, Reactions to the Market: Small Farmers in the Economic Reshaping of Nicaragua, Cuba, Russia, and China.     

Book Reviews

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.     

Book Reviews

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.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this issue. Andrew F. Cooper and Jorge Heine, eds., Which Way Latin America? Hemispheric Politics Meets Globalization. Javier Corrales and Mario Pecheny, eds., The Politics of Sexuality in Latin America: A Reader on Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Rights. Carol Graham and Eduardo Lora, eds., Paradox and Perception: Measuring Quality of Life in Latin America. Brendan Howe, Vesselin Popovski, and Mark Notaras, eds., Democracy in the South: Participation, the State, and the People. Scott Mainwaring and Timothy R. Scully, eds., Democratic Governance in Latin America. Marcelo Bergman, Tax Evasion and the Rule of Law in Latin America: The Political Culture of Cheating and Compliance in Argentina and Chile.     

Book Reviews

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.     

Participatory Governance in Latin America: Promises and Limitations

Maxwell A. Cameron, Eric Hershberg, and Kenneth E. Sharpe, eds., New Institutions for Participatory Democracy in Latin America: Voice and Consequence. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2012. Tables, figures, bibliography, index; 263 pp.; hardcover $105, paperback $30, ebook $19.99. Françoise Montambeault, The Politics of Local Participatory Democracy in Latin America: Institutions, Actors, and Interactions. Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2015. Figures, tables, notes, bibliography, index, 288 pp.; hardcover $65, ebook. Patricio Silva and Herwig Cleuren, eds., Widening Democracy: Citizens and Participatory Schemes in Brazil and Chile. Leiden: Brill, 2009. Figures, tables, notes, bibliography, index; 379 pp.; hardcover $87, ebook $90. J. Ricardo Tranjan, Participatory Democracy in Brazil: Socioeconomic and Political Origins. Notre Dame: Notre Dame University Press, 2016. Figures, tables, notes, bibliography; 288 pp.; paperback $35, ebook. Brian Wampler, Activating Democracy in Brazil: Popular Participation, Social Justice, and Interlocking Institutions. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2015. Figures, tables, abbreviations, notes, bibliography, index; 312 pp.; paperback $39, ebook $39.     

Book Reviews

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.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this issue Francisco E. González, Creative Destruction? Economic Crises and Democracy in Latin America. Tina Hilgers, ed., Clientelism in Everyday Latin American Politics. Daniel E. Levine, Politics, Religion, and Society in Latin America. Cas Muddle and Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser, eds., Populism in Europe and the Americas: Threat or Corrective for Democracy? Natasha Borges Sugiyama, Diffusion of Good Government: Social Sector Reforms in Brazil. María de los Angeles Fernández Ramil and Eugenio Rivera Urrutia, eds., La trastienda del gobierno: el eslabón perdido en la modernización del estado chileno. Marc Becker, ¡Pachakutik! Indigenous Movements and Electoral Politics in Ecuador. Rafael de la Dehesa, Queering the Public Sphere in Mexico and Brazil: Sexual Rights Movements in Emerging Democracies. Barry S. Levitt, Power in the Balance: Presidents, Parties, and Legislatures in Peru and Beyond. George Ciccariello‐Maher, We Created Chávez: A People's History of the Venezuelan Revolution.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this issue. David V. Carruthers, ed., Environmental Justice in Latin America: Problems, Promise, and Practice. Michael Grow, U.S. Presidents and Latin American Interventions: Pursuing Regime Change in the Cold War. Luiz Carlos Bresser‐Pereira, Developing Brazil: Overcoming the Failure of the Washington Consensus. Jorge I. Domínguez, Chappell Lawson, and Alejandro Moreno, eds., Consolidating Mexico's Democracy: The 2006 Presidential Campaign in Comparative Perspective. Miguel Tinker Salas, The Enduring Legacy: Oil, Culture, and Society in Venezuela.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Castro, Max. J., ed. Free Markets, Open Societies, Closed Borders? Trends in International Migration and Immigration Policy in the Americas. Craske, Nikki. Women and Politics in Latin America. Jaquette, Jane S., and Sharon L. Wolchik, eds. Women and Democracy: Latin America and Central and Eastern Europe. Hira, Anil. Ideas and Economic Policy in Latin America: Regional, National, and Organizational Case Studies. Mace, Gordon, and Louis Bélanger, eds. The Americas in Transition: The Contours of Regionalism. Rodríguez Mendoza, Miguel, Patrick Low, and Barbara Kotschwar, eds. Trade Rules in the Making: Challenges in Regional and Multilateral Negotiations. Welch, Cliff. The Seed Was Planted: The São Paulo Roots of Brazil's Rural Labor Movement, 1924–1964. Hanchard, Michael, ed. Racial Politics in Contemporary Brazil. Lesser, Jeffrey. Negotiating National Identity: Immigrants, Minorities, and the Struggle for Ethnicity in Brazil. McCaughan, Edward J. Reinventing Revolution: The Renovation of Left Discourse in Cuba and Mexico. Snyder, Richard, ed. Institutional Adaptation and Innovation in Rural Mexico. Dietz, Henry. Urban Poverty, Political Participation, and the State: Lima, 1970–1990.     

Book Reviews

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.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed: Ritter, Archibald R. M. (ed.) The Cuban Economy. Nun, José. Democracy: Government of the People or Government of the Politicians? Forment, Carlos. Democracy in Latin America 1760–1900: Volume I, Civic Selfhood and Public Life in Mexico and Peru. Sandoval‐García, Carlos. Threatening Others: Nicaraguans and the Formation of National Identities in Costa Rica. Appelbaum, Nancy P., Macpherson, Anne S. and Rosemblatt, Karin Alejandra. Race and Nation in Modern Latin America. Thurner, Mark and Guerrero, Andrés (eds) After Spanish Rule: Postcolonial Predicaments of the Americas. Galinier, Jacques. The World Below: Body and Cosmos in Otomí Indian Ritual. Sacks DaSilva, Zenia (ed.) The Hispanic Connection. Spanish and Spanish‐American Literature in the Arts of the World. Morgenstern, Scott. Patterns of Legislative Politics: Roll‐call Voting in Latin America and the United States.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Leóns, Madeline Barbara, and Harry Sanabria, eds. Coca, Cocaine, and the Bolivian Reality. Griffith, Ivelaw Lloyd. Drugs and Security in the Caribbean: Sovereignty Under Siege. McClintock, Cynthia. Revolutionary Movements in Latin America: El Salvador's FMLN and Peru's Shining Path. Chesnut, R. Andrew. Born Again in Brazil: The Pentecostal Boom and the Pathogens of Poverty. Kirk, John M., and Peter McKenna. Canada-Cuba Relations: The Other Good Neighbor Policy. Gainesville: Randall, Stephen J., and Graeme S. Mount, with David Bright. The Caribbean Basin: An International History. Pebley, Anne R., and Luis Rosero-Bixby, eds. Demographic Diversity and Change in the Central American Isthmus. Santa Monica Taylor, Lucy. Citizenship, Participation, and Democracy: Changing Dynamics in Chile and Argentina. Leitinger, Ilse Abshagen, ed. and trans. The Costa Rican Women's Movement: A Reader. Kaplowitz, Donna Rich. Anatomy of a Failed Embargo: U.S. Sanctions Against Cuba. Pelupessy, Wim. The Limits of Economic Reform in El Salvador. Stotzky, Irwin P. Silencing The Guns in Haiti: The Promise of Deliberative Democracy. Rodríguez O., Jaime E., and Kathryn Vincent, eds. Myths, Misdeeds, and Misunderstandings: The Roots of Conflict in U.S.-Mexican Relations. Serrano, Mónica, ed. Governing Mexico: Political Parties and Elections.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this issue.
Jorge G. Castañeda and Marco A. Morales, eds., Leftovers: Tales of the Latin American Left.
Larry Diamond, Marc F. Plattner, and Diego Abente Brun, eds., Latin America's Struggle for Democracy.
Thad Dunning, Crude Democracy: Natural Resource Wealth and Political Regimes.
Silvina Gvirtz and Jason Beech, eds., Going to School in Latin America.
John A. Booth and Mitchell A. Seligson, The Legitimacy Puzzle in Latin America: Political Support and Democracy in Eight Nations.
Vicente Palermo, Sal en las heridas. Las Malvinas en la cultura argentina contemporánea.
Ivani Vassoler, Urban Brazil: Visions, Afflictions, and Governance Lessons.
Michelle A. Saint-Germain and Cynthia Chávez Metoyer, Women Legislators in Central America: Politics, Democracy, and Policy.     

Book reviews

Thorp, Rosemary (1998), Progress, Proverty and Exclusion: An Economic History of Latin America in the 20th Century, Inter‐American Development Bank (Washington). Katz, Friedrich (1998), The Life and Times of Pancho Villa. Jones, Grant D. (1998), The Conquest of the Last Maya Kingdom. Bell, Stephen (1998), Campanha Gaúcha. A Brazilian Ranching System, 1850‐1920. Adelman, Jeremy (ed) (1999), Colonial Legacies: The Problem of Persistence in Latin American History. Bulmer‐Thomas, Victor and Dunkerley, James (eds.) (1999), The United States and Latin America: The New Agenda. Leogrande, W.M. (1998), Our Own Backyard: The United States in Central America 1977‐1992. Arnson, Cynthia (ed.) (1999), Comparative Peace Processes in Latin America. Biekart, Kees (1999), The Politics of Civil Society Building. European Private Aid Agencies and Democratic Transitions in Central America. Belnap, Jeffrey and Fernandez, Raúl (eds.) (1998) José Martí's “Our America”: From National to Hemispheric Cultural Studies. Chomsky, Aviva and Lauria‐Santiago, Aldo (eds.) (1998), Identity and Struggle at the Margins of the Nation‐State: The Laboring Peoples of Central America and the Hispanic Caribbean. Míguez, Daniel (1998), Spiritual Bonfire in Argentina: Confronting Current Theories with an Ethnographic Account of Pentecostal Growth in a Buenos Aires Suburb. Kamsteeg, Frans H (1998), Prophetic Pentecostalism in Chile: A Case Study on Religion and Development Policy. Rodríguez, Victoria (ed.) (1998), Women’Participation in Mexican Political Life. Arias, Patricia and Fiona Wilson (1997), La Aguja y el Surco: Cambio Regional, Consumey Relaciones de Génera en la Industria de la Ropa en México. Laguerre, E.S. (1998), Diasporic Citizenship: Haitian Americans in Transnational America. Johnson, H. and Watson, K. (ed) (1998), The White Minority in the Caribbean. Bueno, Eva P. and Terry Caesar (eds.) (1998), Imagination Beyond Nation: Latin American Popular Culture. Parker, Richard (1999), Beneath the Equator: Cultures of Desire, Male Homosexuality and Emerging Gay Communities in Brazil. Kulick, Don (1998), Travesti: Sex, Gender and Culture among Brazilian Transgendered Prostitutes. Davies, Matt (1999), International Political Economy and Mass Communication in Chile: National Intellectuals and Transnational Hegemony. Roberts, Kenneth (1999), Deepening Democracy? The Modern Left and Social Movements in Chile and Peru. Petras, James (1999), The Left Strikes Back, Class Conflict in Latin America in the Age of Neoliberalism.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this issue. Manuel Alcántara Sáez, ed., Politicians and Politics in Latin America. Stephan Haggard and Robert R. Kaufman, Development, Democracy, and Welfare States: Latin America, East Asia, and Eastern Europe. Gerardo L. Munck, ed., Regimes and Democracy in Latin America: Theories and Methods. Shawn Smallman, The AIDS Pandemic in Latin America. Alexander I. Gray and Antoni Kapcia, eds., The Changing Dynamic of Cuban Civil Society. Shannon Speed, Rights in Rebellion: Indigenous Struggle and Human Rights in Chiapas.     

Book reviews

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.     

Book Reviews

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.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this issue.
Peter M. Siavelis and Scott Morgenstern, eds., Pathways to Power: Political Recruitment and Candidate Selection in Latin America.
Betilde Muñoz-Pogossian, Electoral Rules and the Transformation of Bolivian Politics: The Rise of Evo Morales.
Paul W. Posner, State, Market, and Democracy in Chile: The Constraint of Popular Participation.
Julian Go, American Empire and the Politics of Meaning: Elite Political Cultures in the Philippines and Puerto Rico During U.S. Colonialism.     

Book Reviews

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.