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Author: Marco Palacios
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2006-06-06
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780822337676
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDIVComprehensive overview of modern Colombian history considers why Colombia's long-established, stable political institutions have not been able to prevent frequent and extreme violence./div
Author: Lina Britto
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2020-03-24
Total Pages: 349
ISBN-13: 0520325451
DOWNLOAD EBOOKBefore Colombia became one of the world’s largest producers of cocaine in the 1980s, traffickers from the Caribbean coast partnered with American buyers in the 1970s to make the South American country the main supplier of marijuana for a booming US drug market, fueled by the US hippie counterculture. How did Colombia become central to the creation of an international drug trafficking circuit? Marijuana Boom is the story of this forgotten history. Combining deep archival research with unprecedented oral history, Lina Britto deciphers a puzzle: Why did the Colombian coffee republic, a model of Latin American representative democracy and economic modernization, transform into a drug paradise, and at what cost?
Author: Taimur Samad
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Published: 2012-11-15
Total Pages: 245
ISBN-13: 0821395246
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book provides diagnostic tools to inform policy dialogue and investment priorities on urbanization in Colombia, addresssing the need to deepen economic connectivity, enhance coordination at a regional and metropolitan scale, and foster efficiency and innovativeness in how cities finance themselves.
Author: Julián D. López-Murcia
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: 2021-12-04
Total Pages: 256
ISBN-13: 3030816745
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book tackles the question of how to characterise and account for recentralisation in Colombia between central and lower levels of government across a 26-year period. Around the world, the COVID-19 pandemic has once again put the distribution of responsibilities, resources, and authority between different levels of government at the heart of political debate. This book brings this issue to light as a topic central to the study of public administration.Drawing on extensive fi eldwork with more than a hundred interviews with former presidents, ministers, members of congress, governors, local mayors and subnational public offi cials, as well as documentary sources, it begins with a historical account of recentralisation processes in the world. It then proposes a theoretical framework to explain these processes, before tracing and carefully comparing recentralisation episodes in Colombia using theory-guided process tracing.
Author: John Andrew Atkinson
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Published: 1996-01-01
Total Pages: 213
ISBN-13: 9781873448113
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Erik S. Herron
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2018-03-15
Total Pages: 1017
ISBN-13: 0190258675
DOWNLOAD EBOOKNo subject is more central to the study of politics than elections. All across the globe, elections are a focal point for citizens, the media, and politicians long before--and sometimes long after--they occur. Electoral systems, the rules about how voters' preferences are translated into election results, profoundly shape the results not only of individual elections but also of many other important political outcomes, including party systems, candidate selection, and policy choices. Electoral systems have been a hot topic in established democracies from the UK and Italy to New Zealand and Japan. Even in the United States, events like the 2016 presidential election and court decisions such as Citizens United have sparked advocates to promote change in the Electoral College, redistricting, and campaign-finance rules. Elections and electoral systems have also intensified as a field of academic study, with groundbreaking work over the past decade sharpening our understanding of how electoral systems fundamentally shape the connections among citizens, government, and policy. This volume provides an in-depth exploration of the origins and effects of electoral systems.
Author: David Gregory Gutiérrez
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 522
ISBN-13: 0231118082
DOWNLOAD EBOOKOffers a comprehensive historical overview of the "Latinization" of the United States that has occurred over the past four decades. Brings together the views of some of the foremost scholarly interpreters of the recent history of Latinos in the United States.
Author: United States. Bureau of International Commerce
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Published: 1971
Total Pages: 284
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Scott Mainwaring
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2018-02-08
Total Pages: 525
ISBN-13: 1107175526
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis book generates a wealth of new empirical information about Latin American party systems and contributes richly to major theoretical debates about party systems and democracy.
Author: Radinger Thomas
Publisher: OECD Publishing
Published: 2018-07-18
Total Pages: 306
ISBN-13: 9264303758
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis country review report offers an independent analysis of major issues facing the use of school resources in Colombia from an international perspective. It provides a description of national policies, an analysis of strengths and challenges, and a proposal of possible future approaches.
