Partial non-response in political elite studies: an approach to parliamentary elites in Latin America

James Bryce’s Political Analysis of Mexico’s Porfirian Regime

Journeys ◽

10.3167/jys.2021.220105 ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 22 (1) ◽

pp. 70-88

Author(s):

Itzel Toledo García

Keyword(s):

Latin America ◽

South America ◽

Mexican Revolution ◽

Political Elite ◽

The Political ◽

Political Analysis

This article aims to explore British traveler James Bryce’s political analysis of the Porfirian regime. In October 1901, Bryce visited Mexico and wrote letters to his family portraying his stay. Afterward, based upon his travel account, he spoke about the country in two conferences, one time in Oxford (1902) and another in Aberdeen (1903). Later on, he wrote about Mexico in his book South America: Observations and Impressions (1912), which was the result of his travels through Latin America in 1901 and 1910. We shall explore Bryce’s position toward the Porfirian regime, from disinterest in Porfirio Díaz’s despotism and the political elite in 1901 to admiration of its achievement of peace and progress in 1911 once the Mexican Revolution had commenced.

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The Gender Gap in Latin America: Contextual and Individual Influences on Gender and Political Participation

British Journal of Political Science ◽

10.1017/s0007123408000458 ◽

2009 ◽

Vol 39 (1) ◽

pp. 141-162 ◽

Cited By ~ 79

Author(s):

Scott Desposato ◽

Barbara Norrander

Keyword(s):

Latin America ◽

Latin American ◽

Gender Gap ◽

Western Europe ◽

Civil Liberties ◽

The United States ◽

Political Elite ◽

Equal Rights ◽

Many Core ◽

Developed World

While a substantial literature explores gender differences in participation in the United States, Commonwealth countries and Western Europe, little attention has been given to gender’s impact on participation in the developing world. These countries have diverse experiences with gender politics: some have been leaders in suffrage reforms and equal rights, while, in others, divorce has only recently been legalized. This article examines the relationship between gender and participation in seventeen Latin American countries. Many core results from research in the developed world hold in Latin America as well. Surprisingly, however, there is no evidence that economic development provides an impetus for more equal levels of participation. Instead, the most important contextual factors are civil liberties and women’s presence among the visible political elite.

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Against the current: The emergence of a media democratization policy agenda in Latin America

Global Media and Communication ◽

10.1177/1742766517734253 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 13 (3) ◽

pp. 229-248

Author(s):

Philip Kitzberger

Keyword(s):

Latin America ◽

Latin American ◽

Political Elite ◽

Policy Agenda ◽

Transnational Activism ◽

American Media ◽

The Media ◽

The Subject ◽

Spontaneous Reaction

In Latin America, the role of the media in democratic societies has recently become the subject of public debates, struggles and political mobilizations that have denaturalized the existing media order and established a distinct policy agenda oriented towards media democratization. This region-wide trend – a counter-tendency to the globally dominant market-driven orientation of media and telecommunication policies – requires explanation. This article stresses that it cannot be attributed to a spontaneous reaction to market concentration or media elitism, just as it cannot be reduced to a top-down process driven by populist leaders seeking to control the media. Drawing on social movement literature, the article traces four interacting processes – domestic network mobilization, reframing processes, transnational activism and changes in political elite alignments – that have brought about the unprecedented politicization of the Latin American media order.

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The Genesis and Internal Dynamics of El Salvador's People's Revolutionary Army, 1970–1976

Behavioral and Brain Sciences ◽

10.1017/s0140525x13009850 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 38 (01) ◽

pp. 102-129

Author(s):

ALBERTO MARTÍN ÁLVAREZ ◽

EUDALD CORTINA ORERO

Keyword(s):

Latin America ◽

El Salvador ◽

Early Years ◽

Left Wing ◽

Internal Dynamics ◽

Internal Coherence ◽

The 1960S

AbstractUsing interviews with former militants and previously unpublished documents, this article traces the genesis and internal dynamics of the Ejército Revolucionario del Pueblo (People's Revolutionary Army, ERP) in El Salvador during the early years of its existence (1970–6). This period was marked by the inability of the ERP to maintain internal coherence or any consensus on revolutionary strategy, which led to a series of splits and internal fights over control of the organisation. The evidence marshalled in this case study sheds new light on the origins of the armed Salvadorean Left and thus contributes to a wider understanding of the processes of formation and internal dynamics of armed left-wing groups that emerged from the 1960s onwards in Latin America.

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