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• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Introduction: The effect of national and global forces on the Americas: tsunami, tornado or just a mild breeze? / Andrew F. Cooper and Jorge Heine — Navigating in a fog: metanarrative in the Americas today / Laurence Whitehead — Managing disarray: the search for a new consensus / Michael Shifter — The emergence of a new left / Jorge G. Castañeda and Marco A. Morales — Competing for energy / Sidney Weintraub and Annette Hester — Coping with China / Nicola Phillips — Playing the India card / Jorge Heine — Repositioning the commonwealth Caribbean / Anthony J. Payne — Renewing the OAS / Andrew F. Cooper — Dealing with threats to democracy / Dexter S. Boniface — Monitoring elections / Sharon F. Lean — The Chávez effect / Thomas Legler — The impact of the 2006 Mexican elections / Arturo Santa- Cruz — Quo vadis, Brazil? / Luiz Pedone — The Haitian imbroglio / Yasmine Shamsie — Strong winds of change: new politics and new connections / Andrew F. Cooper and Jorge Heine.

Subjects:

• Latin America — Politics and government — 1980-
• Globalization — Latin America.

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• The learning process / Jennifer L. McCoy — Argentina: lost opportunities and ongoing learning / Marcello Cavarozzi — Chile: political learning and the reconstruction of democracy / Manuel Antonio Garretón and Malva Espinosa — Uruguay: democratic learning and its limits / Luis Costa Bonino — Venezuela: old successes, new constraints on learning / Francine Jácome — Comparative lessons / Jennifer L. McCoy.

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• South America — Politics and government — 20th century.
• Democracy — South America.
• Organizational learning — South America.

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Part of the series California series in public anthropology 22;California series in public anthropology 22.
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• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Introduction: Democracy, insecurity, and the commodification of suffering — The terror apparatus — The aid apparatus and the politics of victimization — Routines of rupture and space of (in)security — Double binds in audit cultures — Bureaucraft, accusations, and the social life of aid — Sovereign rule, ensekirite, and death — The tyranny of the gift.

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• Democratization — Haiti.
• Political violence — Haiti.
• Humanitarian assistance — Haiti.
• Intervention (International law)
• Haiti — Politics and government — 1986-

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• Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Antimilitarism and revolution in Mexico — Cardenismo, revolutionary citizenship, and the redefinition of Mexican militarism, 1934-1940 — Heaven gave you a soldier for every son : conscription and resistance in Mexico in the 1940s — Civilianism and its discontents : officers, politics, and the PRI — Military policing and society in Mexico, 1940-1960 — The army, veterans, and the historical memory of the revolution.

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• Civil-military relations — Mexico — History — 20th century.
• Civil supremacy over the military — Mexico — History — 20th century.
• Mexico — Armed Forces — Political activity — History — 20th century.
• Mexico. Ejército — History — 20th century.
• Mexico — Politics and government — 1910-1946.
• Mexico — Politics and government — 1946-1970.

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• Sandanistas and Nicaragua since 1979 / David Close and Salvador Martí i Puig — FSLN and Sandinismo / Salvador Martí i Puig — Politics of opposition / David Close — Political culture / Andrés Pérez Baltodano — Politicized judiciary / Elena Martinez Barahoma — Uncertain evoluion of the electoral system / Shelley A. McConnell — Regional autonomy on the Caribbean Coast / Miguel González and Dolores Figueroa — Feminist movement / Karen Kampwirch — Poverty politics / Rose J. Spalding — Politics of land reform / Eduardo Baumseiser — FSLN and international solidarity / Hecotr Perla Jr — Nicaraguan exception? / Salvadore Martí i Puig and David Close.
• Includes bibliographical references and index.

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• Frente Sandinista de Liberación Nacional.
• Nicaragua — Politics and government — 1979-1990.
• Nicaragua — Politics and government — 1990-

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• Includes bibliographical references (p. 355-360) and index.
• Part 1. Historical perspectives, 1900-2000. Cycles of electoral democracy Transitions and continuities — The military : heading for the exits? Global contexts, international forces — Part 2. The electoral arena. Presidents or parliaments Institutional variations — Elections : voters, winners, and losers — Part 3. Qualities of democracy. State capacity and policy performance The politics of social equity Freedoms, rights, and illiberal democracy The people’s verdict — Part 4. Democracy considered. The taming of democracy — Epilogue : the future of democracy. Appendix 1. Classification of electoral regimes, 1900-2000 — Appendix 2. Military coups in Latin America, 1900-2000.

Subjects:

• Democratization — Latin America.
• Democracy — Latin America.
• Latin America — Politics and government — 1980-

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