[PDF] Capital City Politics In Latin America eBook

Author : David J. Myers
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 34,5 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Capitals (Cities)
ISBN : 9781588260406

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As 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 : Arturo Almandoz Marte
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 304 pages
File Size : 35,34 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9780415272650

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In this first comprehensive work in English to describe the building of Latin America's capital cities in the postcolonial period, Arturo Almandoz and his contributors demonstrate how Europe and France in particular shaped their culture, architecture and planning until the United States began to play a part in the 1930s. The book provides a new perspective on international planning.

Author : Eduardo Canel
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 262 pages
File Size : 40,13 MB
Release : 2010-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0271037334

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The transition to democracy underway in Latin America since the 1980s has recently witnessed a resurgence of interest in experimenting with new forms of local governance emphasizing more participation by ordinary citizens. The hope is both to foster the spread of democracy and to improve equity in the distribution of resources. While participatory budgeting has been a favorite topic of many scholars studying this new phenomenon, there are many other types of ongoing experiments. In Barrio Democracy in Latin America, Eduardo Canel focuses our attention on the innovative participatory programs launched by the leftist government in Montevideo, Uruguay, in the early 1990s. Based on his extensive ethnographic fieldwork, Canel examines how local activists in three low-income neighborhoods in that city dealt with the opportunities and challenges of implementing democratic practices and building better relationships with sympathetic city officials.

Author : Christian Anglade
Publisher :
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 26,87 MB
Release : 1985
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN :

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Case studies of the impact of economic policy and monetary policy on capital formation in Latin America with partic. Reference to Brazil, Chile and Mexico - examines the economic implications of development policies, in partic. The effects of import substitution and export promotion of export oriented industries on capital accumulation and economic conditions; studies social implications and economic role of international capital flow, implantation of foreign capital and external debt. References, statistical tables.

Author : Kent Eaton
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 34,8 MB
Release : 2004-07-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0804767408

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A recent wave of decentralization in Latin America has increased the prominence of politicians at the subnational level. Politics Beyond the Capital is the first book to place this trend in comparative historical perspective, examining past episodes of decentralization alongside contemporary ones to determine whether consistent causal factors are at play. At the center of the book is the rigorous testing of two key hypotheses that attribute decentralization to liberalizing changes in political regime type and economic development strategy. The book focuses on the four Latin American countries where politicians have most extensively engaged in the redesign of subnational institutions: Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Uruguay. By reframing the "politics of decentralization" as the "politics of designing subnational institutions," the book moves beyond the policy orientation of much of the current literature, and broadens the debate by analyzing not just decentralization but re-centralization as well.

Author : Jonathan R. Barton
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 50,34 MB
Release : 2002-11-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 020343157X

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This book approaches the diversity of south and central America from a critical human geography perspective. It seeks to overcome stereotypes by stressing the need for an inclusionary political geography which cuts across traditional boundaries

Author : J. Buxton
Publisher : Manchester University Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 46,53 MB
Release : 1999-08-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780719054594

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The first part of the volume addresses the changing nature and interaction of the state and the market in Latin American countries, as well as the principal challenges of consolidating political and economic reform in a period of profound change. The second part of the book examines a variety of traditional and non-traditional political roles, ranging from the military to women, and from the environmental lobby to human rights. It explores the ways in which the changing composition of the political debate is shaping the political arena. Forward looking in its approach, to volume provides readers with an indication of factors which will be of key significance in the immediate future, the tensions which have yet to be resolved and the prospects ahead.

Author : Ruth Berins Collier
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 32,78 MB
Release : 2015-10-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0271075686

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A historic shift has occurred in the organizational structures through which the lower classes in Latin America express voice and find political representation. With the political and economic reforms of the 1980s and 1990s, networks of community-based associations and nongovernmental organizations replaced party-affiliated labor unions as the predominant organizations to which the lower classes turned. This volume examines the new “interest regime” in Argentina, Chile, Peru, and Venezuela through two extensive surveys—one of individuals and one of associations—undertaken in those nations’ capital cities. Contrary to common perceptions, the new interest regime is neither a vibrant, autonomous civil society nor a set of weak, atomized organizations. Participation in associations is generally high, compared to “direct action” as a strategy for pursuing collective interests, and associations more frequently coordinate and engage the state than has sometimes been assumed. However, various forms of interaction with the state pose a classic trade-off between representation and state control, and the new interest regime is marked by representational distortion, in that the lower classes are less likely to use the new structures than the middle classes. Within these general patterns, distinct national models are emerging. This volume represents the most ambitious and systematic effort to date to examine individual participation and associational life in Latin America and to carry out a cross-national analysis of new forms of political representation.

Author : Martin C. Needler
Publisher :
Page : 568 pages
File Size : 35,67 MB
Release : 1964
Category : Central America
ISBN :

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Politics in Latin America.