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

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 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.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
Lesley Gill, The School of the Americas: Military Training and Political Violence in the Americas.
Coletta Youngers and Eileen Rosin, eds. Drugs and Democracy in Latin America: The Impact of US. Policy.
Russell Crandall, Guadalupe Paz, and Riordan Roett, eds. The Andes in Focus: Securip, Democracy, and Economic Reforms.
Lawrence Michael Ladutke, Freedom of Expression in El Sahador: The Struggle for Human Rights and Democracy.
Mercedes Prieto, Liberalismo y temor: imaginando los sujetos indgenas en el Ecuador postcolonial, 1895–1950.
David A. Shirk, Mexico's New Politics: me PAN and Democratic Change.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Louise Fawcett and Mónica Serrano, eds., Regionalism and Governance in the Americas: Continental Drift. Jon C. Pevehouse, Democracy from Above: Regional Organizations and Democratization. Paul W. Drake and Eric Hershberg, eds., State and Society in Conflict: Comparative Perspectives on Andean Crises. Scott Mainwaring, Ana María Bejarano, and Eduardo Pizarro Leongómez, eds., The Crisis of Democratic Representation in the Andes. Edward Epstein and David Pion-Berlin, eds., Broken Promises? The Argentine Crisis and Argentine Democracy. Gretchen Helmke, Courts Under Constraints: Judges, Generals and Presidents in Argentina. Eva Paus, Foreign Investment, Development, and Globalization: Can Costa Rica Become Ireland?     

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

Book reviewed in this article:
Frances Hagopian and Scott P. Mainwaring, eds., The Third Wave of Democratization in Latin America: Advances and Setbacks.
Claudio A. Fuentes, Contesting the Iron Fist: Advocacy Networks and Police Violence in Democratic Argentina and Chile.
Charles D. Brockett Political Movements and Violence in Central America.
Russell Crandall, Guadalupe Paz, and Riordan Roett, eds., Mexico's Democracy at Work: Political and Economic Dynamics.
Jennifer L. McCoy and David J. Myers, eds., The Unraveling of Representative Democracy in Venezuela.
Robert I. Rotberg, ed., When States Fail: Causes and Consequences.     

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

Book reviewed in this article:
Carothers, Thomas. Aiding Democracy Abroad: 7he Learning Curue.
Ottaway, Marina, and Thomas Carothers, eds. Funding virtue: Civil Society Aid and Democracy Promotion.
Jorge, Antonio, Jorge Salazar-Carrillo, and Bernadette West, eds. Capital Markets, Growth, and Economic Policy in Latin America.
Macario, Carla, Regis Bonelli, Adriaan Ten Kate, and Gunnar Niels, eds. Export Growth in Latin America: Policies and Performance.
Prillaman, William C. The Judiciary and Democratic Decay in Latin America: Declining Confidence in the Rule of Law.
Mesa-Lago, Carmelo, with Albert0 Arenas de Mesa, Ivan Brenes, Veronica Montecinos, and Mark Samara. Market, Socialist, and Mixed Economies: Comparative Policy and Performance—Chile, Cuba, and Costa Rica.
Walker, Thomas W., and Ariel C. Armony, eds. Repression, Resistance, and Democratic Transition in Central America.
Wood, Elisabeth Jean. Forging Democracy from Below: Insurgent Transitions in South Africa and El Salvador.
Popkin, Margaret. Peace Without Justice: Obstacles to Building the Rule of Law in El Salvador.
Warren, Kay B. Indigenous Movements and Their Critics: Pan-Maya Activism in Guatemala.
Metoyer, Cynthia Chsvez. Women and the State in Post-Sandinista Nicaragua.
Andreas, Peter. Border Games: Policing the US.-Mexico Divide.     

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:
Grindle, Merilee S. Audacious Reforms: Institutional Invention and Democracy in Latin America.
Mares, David. Violent Peace: Militarized Interstate Bargaining in Latin America.
Laver, Roberto C. The Falklands/Malvinas Case: Breaking the Deadlock in the Anglo-Argentine Sovereignty Dispute.
Selverston-Scher, Melina. Ethnopolitics in Ecuador Indigenous Rights and the Strengthening of Democracy.
Chase-Dunn, Christopher, Susanne Jonas, and Nelson Amaro, eds. Globalization on the Ground: Postbellum Guatemalan Democracy and Development.
Dussel Peters, Enrique. Polarizing Mexico: The Impact of Liberalization Strategy.
Canache, Damarys. Venezuela: Public Opinion and Protest in a Fragile Democracy.     

Reviews

Books reviewed:
Hassig Time, History and Belief in Aztec and Colonial Mexico
Baskes Indians, Merchants, and Markets: A Reinterpretation of the Repartimiento and Spanish-Indian Economic Relations in Colonial Oaxaca, 1750–1821
Caldeira City of Walls: Crime, Segregation, and Citizenship in São Paulo
Caulfield In Defense of Honor: Sexual Morality, Modernity, and Nation in Early-Twentieth-Century Brazil
Earle Rumours of Wars: Civil Conflict in Nineteenth-Century Latin America
Clarke Class, Ethnicity, and Community in Southern Mexico: Oaxaca's Peasantries
Jones and Munck, (eds) Cultural Politics in Latin America
CEDLA FRONTERAS: Towards A Borderless Latin America
Tulchin and Garland Social Development in Latin America. The Politics of Reform
Paley Marketing Democracy: Power and Social Movements in Post-Dictatorship Chile
Crabtree and Whitehead (eds) Towards Democratic Viability: The Bolivian Experience
Bailey and Godson (eds) Organized Crime and Democratic Governability: Mexico and the U.S.–Mexican Borderlands
Adams Dollar Diplomacy: United States Economic Assistance to Latin America
Smith (ed.) Democracy and International Relations: Critical Theories/Problematic Practices
Angell, Lowden Thorpe Decentralizing Development: The Political Economy of Institutional Change in Colombia and Chile
Itzigsohn Developing Poverty: The State, Labor Market Deregulation, and the Informal Economy in Costa Rica and the Dominican Republic
Nencel Ethnography and Prostitution in Peru
Potter Deeper than Debt: Economic globalisation and the poor     

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: Carranza, Mario Esteban. South American Free Trade Area or Free Trade Area of the Americas? Open Regionalism and the Future of Regional Economic Integration in South America. Guimarães, Nadya Araujo, and Scott Martin, eds. Competitividade e desenvolvimento: atores e instituçōes locais. Vera, Leonardo V. Stabilization and Growth in Latin America: A Critique and Reconstruction from Post‐Keynesian and Structuralist Perspectives. Powers, Nancy R. Grassroots Expectations of Democracy and Economy: Argentina in Comparative Perspective. Paley, Julia. Marketing Democracy: Power and Social Movements in Post‐Dictatorship Chile. Domínguez, Jorge I., and Alejandro Poiré, eds. Toward Mexico's Democratization: Parties, Campaigns, Elections, and Public Opinion. Schatz, Sara. Elites, Masses, and the Struggle for Democracy in Mexico: A Culturalist Approach. Hoshino, Taeko. Industrialization and Private Enterprises in Mexico. Snyder, Richard. Politics After Neoliberalism: Reregulation in Mexico.     

Book Reviews

Books reviewed in this article:
Rodriguez, Victoria E. and Ward, Peter M. (eds) (1995), Opposition Government in Mexico
Brysk, Alison (1994), The Politics of Human, Rights in Argentina: Protest, Change and Democratization
Serrano, Sol (1994), Universidad y Nación: Chile en el Siglo XIX
Puryear, Jeffrey M. (1994), Thinking Politics: Intellectuals and Democracy in Chile, 1973–1988
Rein, Raanan (trans. Martha Grenzcback) (1993), The Franco-Perón Alliance: Relations Between Spain and Argentina, 1946–1955
Amaral, Samuel and Plotkin, Mariano Ben (eds) (1993), Perih: del exilio al poder
Weaver, Frederick Stirton (1994), Inside the Volcano: the History and Political Economy of Central America
Schulz, Donald E. and Schulz, Deborah Sundloff (1994), The United States, Honduras, and the Crisis in Central America
Domínguez, Jorge, Pastor, Robert and Worrell, Delisle (eds) (1993), Democracy in the Caribbean: Political, Economic and Social Perspectives
Ridgeway, James (ed.) (1994), The Haiti Files: Decoding the Crisis
Aedo, Cristian and Larranaga, Oswaldo (eds) (1994), Social Service Delivery Systems: an Agenda for Reform
Ocampo, Jose Antonio and Steiner, Roberto (eds) (1994), Foreign Capital in Latin America
Salazar-Carrillo, Jorge (1994), Oil and Development in Venezuela during the Twentieth Century
Painter, James (1994), Bolivia and Coca: A Study in Dependency
Meyers, William K. (1994), Forge of Progress, Crucible of Revolt. The Origins of the Mexican Revolution in La Comarca Lagunera, 1880–1911
McCreery, David (1994), Rural Guatemala 1760–1940
Brotherson, Gordon (1992), The Book of the Fourth World: Reading the Native Americas through their Literature     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
Eduardo Posada-Carbó and Carlos Malamud, eds., The Financing of Politics: Latin American and European Perspectives.
Kurt Weyland, ed., Learning from Foreign Models: Latin American Policy Reform.
Kathleen O'Neill, Decentralizing the State: Elections, Parties, and Local Power in the Andes.
Charles D. Kenney, Fujimori's Coup and the Breakdown of Democracy in Latin America.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Stories of Democracy: Politics and Society in Contemporary Kuwait , by Mary Ann Tétreault All in the Family: Absolutism, Revolution, and Democracy in the Middle Eastern Monarchies , by Michael Herb. Saddam's Secrets: The Hunt for Iraq's Hidden Weapons , by Tim Trevan. Endgame: Solving the Iraq Problem‐Once and for All , by Scott Ritter. The Arab Shia: The Forgotten Muslims , by Graham E. A Very Political Economy: Peacebuilding and Foreign Aid in the West Bank and Gaza , by Rex Brynen. Water Politics in the Middle East: A Context for Conflict or Cooperation? , by Mostafa Dolatrar and Tim S. Gray. Water in the Middle East: A Geography of Peace , eds. Hussein A. Amery and Aaron T. Wolfe. Water Conflict: Economics, Politics, Law and the Palestinian‐Israeli Water Resources , by Sharif S. Elmusa. New Encyclopedia of Zionism and Israel , ed. Geoffrey Wigoder. The Oxford History of Islam , ed. John Esposito Islam and Central Asia: An Enduring Legacy or an Evolving Threat ? eds. Roald Sagdeev and Susan Eisenhower.     

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 article:
David Close and Kalowatie Deonandan, eds. Undoing Democracy: The Politics of Electoral Caudillismo.
Robert R. Kaufman and Joan M. Nelson, eds. Crucial Needs, Weak Incentives: Social Sector Reform, Democratization, and Globalization in Latin America.
Kathryn Sikkink, Mixed Signals: U.S. Human Rights Policy and Latin America.
Gretchen Helmke, Courts Under Constraints: Judges, Generals and Presidents in Argentina.
Steve J. Stern, Remembering Pinochet's Chile: On the Eve of London 1998. The Memory Box of Pinochet's 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.