Ciudades y gobiernos locales en la América Latina de los noventa
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Publisher: FLACSO Mexico
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 134
ISBN-13: 9789688423059
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Publisher: FLACSO Mexico
Published: 1991
Total Pages: 134
ISBN-13: 9789688423059
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Benjamin Goldfrank
Publisher: Penn State Press
Published: 2015-09-10
Total Pages: 314
ISBN-13: 0271056770
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe resurgence of the Left in Latin America over the past decade has been so notable that it has been called “the Pink Tide.” In recent years, regimes with leftist leaders have risen to power in Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Ecuador, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Uruguay, and Venezuela. What does this trend portend for the deepening of democracy in the region? Benjamin Goldfrank has been studying the development of participatory democracy in Latin America for many years, and this book represents the culmination of his empirical investigations in Brazil, Uruguay, and Venezuela. In order to understand why participatory democracy has succeeded better in some countries than in others, he examines the efforts in urban areas that have been undertaken in the cities of Porto Alegre, Montevideo, and Caracas. His findings suggest that success is related, most crucially, to how nationally centralized political authority is and how strongly institutionalized the opposition parties are in the local arenas.
Author: Dolores Moyano Martin
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Published: 1997-12-01
Total Pages: 956
ISBN-13: 9780292752115
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBeginning with volume 41 (1979), the University of Texas Press became the publisher of the Handbook of Latin American Stuides, the most comprehensive annual bibliography in the field. Compiled by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress and annotated by a corps of more than 130 specialists in various disciplines, the Handbook alternates from year to year between social sciences and humanities. The Handbook annotates works on Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean and the Guianas, Spanish South America, and Brazil, as well as materials covering Latin America as a whole. Most of the subsections are preceded by introductory essays that serve as biannual evaluations of the literature and research underway in specialized areas. The Handbook of Latin American Studies is the oldest continuing reference work in the field. Dolores Moyano Martin, of the Library of Congress Hispanic Division, has been the editor since 1977, and P. Sue Mundell has been assistant editor since 1994. The subject categories for Volume 55 are as follows: Anthropology (including Archaeology and Ethnology) Economics Electronic Resources for the Social Sciences Geography Government and Politics International Relations Sociology
Author: Pranab Bardhan
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: 2006-06-16
Total Pages: 375
ISBN-13: 0262524546
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOver the past three decades the developing world has seen increasing devolution of political and economic power to local governments. Decentralization is considered an important element of participatory democracy and, along with privatization and deregulation, represents a substantial reduction in the authority of national governments over economic policy. The contributors to Decentralization and Local Governance in Developing Countries examine this institutional transformation from comparative and interdisciplinary perspectives, offering detailed case studies of decentralization in eight countries: Bolivia, Brazil, China, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, South Africa, and Uganda. Some of these countries witnessed an unprecedented "big bang" shift toward comprehensive political and economic decentralization: Bolivia in 1995 and Indonesia after the fall of Suharto in 1998. Brazil and India decentralized in an uneven and more gradual manner. In some other countries (such as Pakistan), devolution represented an instrument for consolidation of power of a nondemocratic national government. In China, local governments were granted much economic but little political power. South Africa made the transition from the undemocratic decentralization of apartheid to decentralization under a democratic constitution. The studies provide a comparative perspective on the political and economic context within which decentralization took place, and how this shaped its design and possible impact. Contributors Omar Azfar, Gianpaolo Baiocchi, Pranab Bardhan, Shubham Chaudhuri, Ali Cheema, Jean-Paul Faguet, Bert Hofman, Kai Kaiser, Philip E. Keefer, Asim Ijaz Khwaja, Justin Yifu Lin, Mingxing Liu, Jeffrey Livingston, Patrick Meagher, Dilip Mookherjee, Ambar Narayan, Adnan Qadir, Ran Tao, Tara Vishwanath, Martin Wittenberg
Author: David J. Myers
Publisher: Lynne Rienner Publishers
Published: 2002
Total Pages: 424
ISBN-13: 9781588260406
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAs Latin America's new democratic regimes have decentralized, the region's capital cities - and their elected mayors - have gained increasing importance. Capital City Politics in Latin America tells the story of these cities: how they are changing operationally, how the the empowerment of mayors and other municipal institutions is exacerbating political tensions between local executives and regional and national entities, and how the cities' growing significance affects traditional political patterns throughout society. The authors weave a tapestry that illustrates the impact of local, national, and transnational power relations on the strategies available to Latin America's capital city mayors as they seek to transform their greater influence into desired actions.
Author: Heather D. Gautney
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2009-04-24
Total Pages: 361
ISBN-13: 1135856826
DOWNLOAD EBOOKUsing understandable and interesting case studies, Democracy, States, and the Struggle for Social Justice analyzes the impact of neoliberal globalization on governance and explores the new forms of participatory democracy that have emerged from the global justice movement.
Author: Gianpaolo Baiocchi
Publisher: Zed Books
Published: 2003-10-17
Total Pages: 278
ISBN-13: 9781842771730
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book throws real light on the single most strategic tendency in Brazilian politics in recent years.
Author: Willem Assies
Publisher: Ocho Libros Editores
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 388
ISBN-13: 9789568018337
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Published: 1997
Total Pages: 960
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKContains scholarly evaluations of books and book chapters as well as conference papers and articles published worldwide in the field of Latin American studies. Covers social sciences and the humanities in alternate years.
Author: Benjamin Goldfrank
Publisher: Icaria Editorial
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9788474267570
DOWNLOAD EBOOKEl final de predominio de las dictaduras en América Latina generó muchas esperanzas en sus izquierdas emergentes. La realidad tardó poco en desmontar estos escenarios. Los sucesivos momentos electorales no les fueron favorables y las relegó en la eterna oposición o en ser unas fuerzas marginales. Este libro nos muestra una realidad más estimulante porque sus izquierdas han cambiado. El fracaso social y económico de las recetas neoliberales impuestas en todos los países ha creado un contexto mucho más favorable a la experimentación con otras alternativas socioeconómicas y políticas. Se ha pasado de las consignas que surgían de cuatro dirigentes, al debate entre hombres y mujeres formados en esas escuelas de ciudadanía que son los mercados, las minas, las plantaciones, las asociaciones de barrio, las fábricas, los lavaderos o las cooperativas: la participación ciudadana como estrategia fundamental de construcción, tanto de su estilo de gobierno, como de sus alianzas con nuevos sectores sociales. Las ciudades elegidas son un buen reflejo de la heterogeneidad latinoamericana, Montevideo y Porto Alegre con organizaciones de izquierda más estructuradas, Lima como ejemplo de la izquierda más dividida, el populismo está representado por el PRD de México DF y la experiencia de Causa R de Caracas muestra una realidad heterodoxa y difícil de clasificar. A partir de estas prácticas municipales las izquierdas latinoamericanas ya han comenzado a transformar el mundo. Ya han puesto en práctica sus valores y sus políticas específicas para intentar al menos contener a nivel local los efectos de la marea neoliberal. Nos ayudan a entender, en definitiva, cómo lo local influye en lo nacional y, a su vez, cómo lo global en lo local. Cómo a pesar de los límites y dificultades las alternativas se están construyendo cada día y se están empezando a forjar desde las ciudades. Daniel Chavez es antropólogo uruguayo especializado en política y gestión urbana. Doctor en Teoría del Desarrollo por el Institute of Social Studies de La Haya. Investigador principal del New Politics Project del Transnational Institute (TNI) de Amsterdam, Holanda. Benjamin Goldfrank es politólogo norteamericano con vasta experiencia de investigación en varios países de América Latina. Doctor en Ciencias Políticas por la University of California-Berkeley. Profesor Asistente de Ciencia Política en la University of New Mexico, en Albuquerque (Estados Unidos).