Book Review: Regional Organizations and Social Policy in Europe and Latin America: A Space for Social Citizenship?68.1421 BianculliAndrea C.; Ribeiro HoffmannAndrea, eds. — Regional Organizations and Social Policy in Europe and Latin America: A Space for Social Citizenship? (Macmillan, 2016). Latin American Politics and Society59(3), Fall 2017: 132–135.

2018 ◽  
Vol 68 (1) ◽  
pp. 142-142
Author(s):  
Pablo Toral
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Social Policy ◽  
Latin American ◽  
American Politics ◽  
Social Citizenship ◽  
Latin American Politics ◽  
Regional Organizations

Elites, Elite Settlements, and Revolutionary Movements in Latin America, 1950–1980: Introduction

1994 ◽  
Vol 18 (4) ◽  
pp. 543-574
Author(s):  
Timothy P. Wickham-Crowley
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
American Politics ◽  
Social Revolution ◽  
Latin American Politics ◽  
Revolutionary Movements

Social revolutions as well as revolutionary movements have recently held great interest for both sociopolitical theorists and scholars of Latin American politics. Before we can proceed with any useful analysis, however, we must distinguish between these two related but not identical phenomena. Adapting Theda Skocpol’s approach, we can define social revolutions as “rapid, basic transformations of a society’s state and class structures; and they are accompanied and in part carried through by” mass-based revolts from below, sometimes in cross-class coalitions (Skocpol 1979: 4; Wickham-Crowley 1991:152). In the absence of such basic sociopolitical transformations, I will not speak of (social) revolution or of a revolutionary outcome, only about revolutionary movements, exertions, projects, and so forth. Studies of the failures and successes of twentieth-century Latin American revolutions have now joined the ongoing theoretical debate as to whether such outcomes occur due to society- or movement-centered processes or instead due to state- or regime-centered events (Wickham-Crowley 1992).

The Limits of Functional Differentiation under Populist Rule in Latin America

2018 ◽  
Vol 23 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 47-67
Author(s):  
Dr. Aldo Mascareño
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Latin American ◽  
American History ◽  
American Politics ◽  
Functional Differentiation ◽  
Institutional Framework ◽  
Latin American Politics ◽  
Latin American History ◽  
The People ◽  
Three Phases

Abstract Populism has been one of the most outstanding features of Latin American politics throughout the 20th century. By controlling political and economic operations and appealing to the semantic construction of pueblo (the people), populism has succeeded in shaping a regional variant of functional differentiation. This process is analyzed along three phases of Latin American history, the pre-populist age of caudillos, the classic populism in the 20th century, and the neo-populist period in the 21st century. The article concludes with a reflection on the consequences of populism for the institutional framework in Latin America.

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