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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.     

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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.     

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Book reviewed in this article:
Nancy Bermeo, Ordinary People in Extraordinary Times: The Citizenry and the Breakdown of Democracy.
Mala Htun, Sex and the State: Abortion, Divorce, and the Family Under Latin American Dictatorships and Democracies.
Scott Mainwaring and Timothy R. Scully, eds., Christian Democracy in Latin America: Electoral Competition and Regime Conflicts.
Andrew J. Kirkendall, Class Mates: Male Student Culture and the Making of a Political Class in Nineteenth-Century
Elisabeth Jean Wood, Insurgent Collective Action and Civil War in El Salvador.
Raul L. Madrid, Retiring the State: The Politics of Pension Privatization in Latin America and Beyond.
Alberto JosC Frick Cardelle, Health Care Reform in Central America: NGO-Government Collaboration in Guatemala and El Salvador.     

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Book reviewed in this article:
Avritzer, Leonardo. Democracy and the Public Space in Latin America.
Demmers, J. [Jolle], A.[Alex] E. Fernández Jilberto, and B. [Barbara] Hegenboom, eds. Miraculous Metamorphoses: The Neoliberalisation of Latin American Populism.
Domingo, Pilar, and Rachel Sieder, eds. Rule of Law in Latin America: The International Promotion of Judicial Reform.
Franco, Andrés, ed. Financing For Development in Latin America and the Caribbean.
Mahoney, James. The Legacies of Liberalism: Path Dependence and Political Regimes in Central America.
Herz, Monica, and João Pontes Nogueira. Ecuador vs. Peru: Peacemaking Amid Rivalry.
Bailey, John, and Jorge Chabat, eds. Transnational Crime and Public Security: Challenges to Mexico and the United States.
Hart, John Mason. Empire and Revolution: The Americans in Mexico Since the Civil War.
Williams, Heather L. Social Movements and Economic Transition: Markets and Distributive Conflict in Mexico.
Williams, Mark Eric. Market Reforms in Mexico: Coalitions, Institutions, and the Politics of Policy Change.     

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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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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.     

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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.     

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Mainwaring, Scott and Valenzuela, Arturo (eds) (1998), Politics, Society, and Democracy: Latin America. Essays in Honor of Juán J. Linz . Phillips, Lynne (ed.) (1998), The Third Wave of Modernization in Latin America. Cultural Perspectives on Neoliberalism . Vellinga, Menno (ed.) (1988), The Changing Role of the State in Latin America . Domínguez, Jorge and Lindenberg, Marc (eds) (1997), Democratic Transitions in Central America . Terry Lynn Karl (1997), The Paradox of Plenty: Oil Booms and Petro-States . Escudeé, Carlos (1997), Foreign Policy Theory in Menemós Argentina . Conca, Ken (1997), Manufacturing Insecurity. The Rise and Fall of Brazilós Military Industrial Complex . Ward, John (1997), Latin America: Development and Conflict Since 1945 . Brian W. Blouet and Olwyn M. Blouet (eds) (1997), Latin America and the Caribbean: A Systematic and Regional Survey . Chant, Sylvia (1997), Women-Headed Households: Diversity and Dynamics in the Developing World . Brown, Jonathan (ed.) (1997), Workers Control in Latin America, 1930–1979 . Alvarez, Sonia, Dagnino, Evelina and Escobar, Arturo (eds) (1998), Cultures of Politics, Politics of Cultures. Re-Visioning Latin American Social Movements . Ward, Peter M. (1998), Mexico City . Johns, Michael (1997), The City of Mexico in the Age of Díaz . Rodríguez, O. and Jaime, E. (eds) (1997), The Origins of Mexican National Politics, 1808–1847 . Serrano, Mónica (ed.) (1997), Mexico: Assessing Neo-Liberal Reform . Serrano, Mónica (ed.) (1998), Governing Mexico: Political Parties and Elections . Camp, Roderic (ed.) (1996), Polling for Democracy . Dumond, Don E. (1997), The Machete and the Cross: Campesino Rebellion in Yucatan . Raczynski, Dagmar (ed.) (1995), Strategies to Combat Poverty in Latin America . Lloyd-Sherlock, Peter (1997), Old Age and Urban Poverty in the Developing World: The Shanty Towns of Buenos Aires . Binford, Leigh (1996), The El Mazote Massacre . Parkinson Zamora, L. and Faris, W.B. (eds) (1995), Magical Realism: Theory, History, Community . Stevens, Donald F. (ed.) (1997), Based on a True Story: Latin American History at the Movies . Apfell-Marglin, Frédérique (ed.)(1998), The Spirit of Regeneration. Andean Culture Confronting Western Notions of Development . Carlsen, Robert S. (1997), The War for the Heart and Soul of a Highland Maya Town .     

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Book reviewed in this article:
Robert N. Gwynne and Cristóbal Kay, eds. Latin America Transformed: Globalization and Modernity
Javier Auyero, Contentious Lives: Two Argentine Women, Two Protests, and the Quest for Recognition.
William R. Nylen, Participatory Democracy versus Elitist Democracy: Lessons from Brazil.
Laurent Dubois, Avengers of the New World: The Story of the Haitian Revolution.
Marcus J. Kurtz, Free Market Democracy and the Chilean and Mexican Countryside.
Jorge I. Domínguez and Chappell H. Lawson, eds. Mexico's Pivotal Democratic Election: Candidates, Voters, and the Presidential Campaign of 2000.     

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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.     

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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     

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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     

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Book reviewed in this article: Peter Andreas and Thomas J. Biersteker, eds. The Rebordering of North America: Integration and Exclusion in a New Security Context. Glen Biglaiser, Guardians of the Nation? Economists, Generals, and Economic Reform in Latin America Sinclair Thomson, We Alone Will Rule: Native Andean Politics in the Age of Znsurgency. Alfred P. Montero, Shifting States in Global Markets: Subnational Industrial Policy in Contemporary Brazil and Spain. Steve Ellner and Daniel Hellinger, eds. Venezuelan Politics in the Chavez Era: Class, Polarization, and Conflict     

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Book reviewed in this article:
Berrios, Ruben. Contracting for Development: The Role of For-Profit Contractors in US. Foreign Development Assistance.
Brysk, Alison. From Tribal Village to Global village: Indian Rights and International Relations in Latin America.
Peceny, Mark. Democracy at the Point of Bayonets.
Tulchin, Joseph S., and Allison M. Garland, eds. Social Development in Latin America: The Politics of Reform.
Tulchin, Joseph S., and Ralph H. Espach, eds. Combating Corruption in Latin America.
Kingstone, Peter R., and Timothy J. Power, eds. Democratic Brazil: Actors, Institutions, and Processes.
Edelman, Marc. Peasants Against Globalization: Rural Social Movements in Costa Rica.
Weintraub, Sidney. Financial Decision Making in Mexico: To Bet a Nation.     

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Book reviewed in this article:
Manzetti, Luigi, ed. Regulatory Policy in Latin America: Post-Privatization Realities .
Miller, Nicola. In the Shadow of the State: Intellectuals and the Quest for National Identity in Twentieth-Century Spanish America .
Roniger, Luis, and Mario Sznajder. The Legacy of Human Rights Violations in the Southern Cone: Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay .
García-Johnson, Ronie. Exporting Environmentalism: U.S. Multinational Chemical Corporations in Brazil and Mexico .
Jonas, Susanne. Of Centaurs and Doves: Guatemala's Peace Process .
Benjamin, Thomas. La Revolución: Mexico's Great Revolution as Memory, Myth, and History .
Crisp, Brian. Democratic Institutional Design: The Powers and Incentives of Venezuelan Politicians and Interest Groups .
Moreno, Alejandro. Political Cleavages: Issues, Parties, and the Consolidation of Democracy .     

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Books reviewed in this article: Sieder, Rachel (ed.) (1995), Impunity in Latin America Berger, Mark T. (1995), Under Northern Eyes: Latin American Studies and U.S. Hegemony in the Americas, 1898–1990 Tulchin, Joseph S. with Bernice (eds) (1995) The Consolidation of Democracy in Latin America Norden, Deborah L. (1996) Military Rebellion in Argentina: Between Coups and Consolidation McAdam, Andrew (1996) Antonio F. Cafiero: El Renovador Gibson, Edward (1996) Class and Conservative Parties, Argentina in Comparative Perspective Lewis, Colin and Szusterman, Celia (eds) (1996), Argentina: Foreign Relations and the New Foreign Policy Agenda Randall, Laura (ed.) (1996), Reforming Mexico's Agrarian Reform Tortolero Villasenor, Alejandro (1995), De la coa a la máquina de vapor: actividad agrícola e innovación tecnolbgica en las haciendas mexicanas, 1880–1914 Costa, Hélio da (1995), Em busca da memoria: comissão de fábrica, partido e sindicato no pósguerra Arom, Silvia M. and Ortoll, Servando (eds) (1996) Riots in the Cities: Popular Politics and the Urban Poor in Latin America, 1765–1910 Smith, Courtney A. (1995), Socialist Transformation in Peripheral Economies: Lessons from Grenada Purcell, Susan Kaufman and Simon, Francoise (eds) (1995) Europe and Latin America in the World Economy Nazmi, Nader (1996), Economic Policy and Stabilization in Latin America Lavrin, Asuncion (1995) Women, Feminism, and Social Change in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay, 1890–1940 Besse, Susan K. (1996), Restructuring Patriarchy: the Modernization of Gender Inequality in Brazil, 1914–1940 Molyneux, Maxine (1996), State, Gender and Institutional Change in Cuba's ‘Special Period’: the Federack de Mujeres Cubanas Townsend, Janet G. in collaboration with Arrevillaga, Ursula, Bain, Jennie, Cancino, Socorro, Frenk, Susan F., Pacheco, Silvana and Perez, Elia (1995), Women's Voices from the Rainforest Painter, M. and Durham, W.H. (eds) (1995), The Social Causes of Environmental Destruction in Latin America Meyer, Doris (ed.) (1995), Reinterpreting the Spanish American Essay: Women Writers of the 19th and 20th Centuries Levinson, Brett (1996) Secondary Moderns: Mimesis, History, and Revolution in Lezama Lima's “American Expression” Pérez de Mendiola, Marina (ed.) (1996), Bridging the Atlantic: Toward a Reassessment of Iberian and Latin American Cultural Ties Katra, William H. (1996) The Argentine Generation of 1837: Echeverria, Alherdi, Sarmiento, Mitre James, C.L.R. (ed. Anna Grimshaw) (1996) Special Delivery. The Letters of C.L.R. James to Constance Webb, 1939–48 Cowley, John (1996), Carnival, Canboulay and Calypso: Caribbean Traditions in the Making Cole, Richard R. (ed.) (1996) Communication in Latin America: Journalism, Mass Media, and Society Langer, Erick and Jackson, Robert H. (eds) (1995) The New Latin American Mission History Hoberman, Louisa Schell and Socolow, Susan Migden (eds) (1996) The Countryside in Colonial Latin America Andrien, Kenneth J. (1995), The Kingdom of Quito, 1690–1830: the State and Regional Development Cornblit, Oscar (1995) Power and Violence in the Colonial City: Oruro from the Mining Renaissance to the Rebellion of Tupac Amaru (1740–1782) O'Brien, Thomas, F. (1996), The Revolutionary Mission: American Business in Latin America, 1900–1945 Frye, David (1996) Indians into Mexicans: History and identity in a Mexican Town Paternosto, César (1996), The Stone and the Thread: Andean Roots of Abstract Art     

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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. 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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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.     

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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.