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. 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.     

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

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. 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 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

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.     

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. 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 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     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article: Campbell, Bruce B., and Arthur D. Brenner, eds. Death Squads in Global Perspective: Murder with Deniability. Pollack, Marcelo. The New Right in Chile, 1973–97. Siavelis, Peter M. The President and Congress in Postauthoritarian Chile: Institutional Constraints to Democratic Consolidation. Díaz‐Briquets, Sergio, and Jorge Pérez‐López, Conquering Nature: The Environmental Legacy of Socialism in Cuba. Schwab, Peter. Cuba: Confronting the U.S. Embargo. Jiménez Polanco, Jacqueline. Los partidos políticos en la República Dominicana: actividad electoral y desarrollo organizativo. Cornelius, Wayne A., Todd A. Eisenstadt, and Jane Hindley, eds. Subnational Politics and Democratization in Mexico. Harvey, Neil. The Chiapas Rebellion: The Struggle for Land and Democracy. Ward, Peter M., and Victoria E. Rodríguez, with Enrique Cabrero Mendoza. New Federalism and State Government in Mexico: Bringing the States Back In.     

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.     

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Books reviewed in this issue. Robert H. Wilson, Peter M. Ward, Peter K. Spink, and Victoria E. Rodríguez, eds., Governance in the Americas: Decentralization, Democracy, and Subnational Government in Brazil, Mexico, and the USA. Eduardo Rojas, Juan R. Cuadrado‐Roura, and José Miguel Fernández Güell, eds., Governing the Metropolis: Principles and Cases. Translated by Sarah Schineller. Nita Rudra, Globalization and the Race to the Bottom in Developing Countries: Who Really Gets Hurt? Merike Blofield, The Politics of Moral Sin: Abortion and Divorce in Spain, Chile, and Argentina. Yanna P. Yannakakis, The Art of Being In‐between: Native Intermediaries, Indian Identity, and Local Rule in Colonial Oaxaca.     

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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.     

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

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

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.     

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.     

Book Reviews

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.     

Book Reviews

Book reviewed in this article:
Javier Santiso, Latin America's Political Economy of the Possible: Beyond Good Revolutionaries and Free-Marketeers.
Donna Lee Van Cott, From Movements to Parties in Latin America: The Evolution of Ethnic Politics.
Steven Levitsky and Maria Victoria Murillo, eds., Argentine Democracy: The Politics of Institutional Weakness.
Harold A. Trinkunas, Crafting Civilian Control of the Military in Venezuela: A Comparative Perspective.