Capital City Politics In Latin America

Author : David J. Myers
Publisher : Lynne Rienner Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9781588260406
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Capital City Politics in Latin America written by David J. Myers and published by Lynne Rienner Publishers. This book was released on 2002 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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
ISBN 13 : 0415272653
Total Pages : 298 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Planning Latin America's Capital Cities, 1850-1950 written by Arturo Almandoz Marte and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 298 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Kent Eaton
Publisher : Stanford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0804767408
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Politics Beyond the Capital written by Kent Eaton and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2004-07-22 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Christian Anglade
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The State and Capital Accumulation in Latin America written by Christian Anglade and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Eduardo Canel
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271037334
Total Pages : 262 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Barrio Democracy in Latin America written by Eduardo Canel and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 262 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Sandor Halebsky
Publisher : Westview Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.87/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Capital, Power, And Inequality In Latin America written by Sandor Halebsky and published by Westview Press. This book was released on 1995-10-13 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a comprehensive account on contemporary Latin America. It offers multidimensional analyses of the historical context, contemporary character, and future direction of rural transformation, urbanization, economic restructuring, and the transition to political democracy.

Author : Jonathan R. Barton
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134828071
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Political Geography of Latin America written by Jonathan R. Barton and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2002-11 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Richard L. Harris
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN 13 : 0742572501
Total Pages : 361 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Capital, Power, and Inequality in Latin America and the Caribbean written by Richard L. Harris and published by Rowman & Littlefield Publishers. This book was released on 2008-01-28 with total page 361 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For an additional chapter on health and human security: Click Here. For suggested resources for each chapter in the book: Click Here. For additional resources on ecological and social issues: Click Here. For additional resources on indigenous peoples: Click Here. Comprehensive and interdisciplinary, this thoroughly updated and revised second edition is an engaging critical analysis of the major political, economic, social, and ecological conditions in Latin America and the Caribbean. Genuinely regional in scope, this textbook examines the hemispheric and global context of these conditions as well as the relations among Latin American and Caribbean states and their relations with the United States. Expert contributors describe and analyze the economies and trading relations, politics and state policies, social inequalities and social injustices, indigenous communities, gender relations, influence of religion, wide array of social movements, and social ecology of the societies in this important region of the world. Harris and Nef have assembled a valuable resource for undergraduate and graduate courses and all readers concerned with understanding the past, present, and future development of contemporary Latin America, the Caribbean, and the Americas as a whole. Contributions by: Guido Pascual Galafassi, Richard L. Harris, Judith Adler Hellman, Cristóbal Kay, Michael Kearney, Francesca Miller, Jorge Nef, Viviana Patroni, Wilder Robles, and Stefano Varese.

Author : Martin C. Needler
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 568 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Political Systems of Latin America written by Martin C. Needler and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 568 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Politics in Latin America.

Author : Noemi Levy-Orlik
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1800372140
Total Pages : 264 pages
Book Rating : 4.46/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Capital Movements and Corporate Dominance in Latin America written by Noemi Levy-Orlik and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2021-06-25 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book addresses the problems of Latin America, through two of the most important features of the post-Bretton Woods economic order, large corporations and weak financial markets. In turn, it shows that their impact on economic growth and development is feeble and short-lived. This resulted in income concentration and an extremely unequal distribution of wealth in the region.