"Gobernabilidad" versus democracia pluralista
Title | "Gobernabilidad" versus democracia pluralista PDF eBook |
Author | Nancy Ochoa Antich |
Publisher | Editorial Abya Yala |
Pages | 102 |
Release | 2003 |
Genre | Democracy |
ISBN | 9789978223178 |
Construyendo la Democracia Desde Las Bases
Title | Construyendo la Democracia Desde Las Bases PDF eBook |
Author | Organization of American States. General Secretariat |
Publisher | |
Pages | 108 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Decentralization in government |
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Revista Interamericana
Title | Revista Interamericana PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 626 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | |
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Governing the Metropolis
Title | Governing the Metropolis PDF eBook |
Author | Eduardo Rojas |
Publisher | David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies |
Pages | 332 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
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This book explores key metropolitan management issues, presents practical principles of good governance as they apply to the metropolis, and unfolds cases of institutional and programmatic arrangements to tackle such issues.
Revista/review Interamericana
Title | Revista/review Interamericana PDF eBook |
Author | |
Publisher | |
Pages | 630 |
Release | 1992 |
Genre | Caribbean Area |
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Constructing Democratic Governance in Latin America
Title | Constructing Democratic Governance in Latin America PDF eBook |
Author | Jorge I. Domínguez |
Publisher | JHU Press |
Pages | 404 |
Release | 2013-07-31 |
Genre | Political Science |
ISBN | 1421409801 |
After more than a century of assorted dictatorships and innumerable fiscal crises, the majority of Latin America's states are governed today by constitutional democratic regimes. Some analysts and scholars argue that Latin America weathered the 2008 fiscal crisis much better than the United States. How did this happen? Jorge I. Domínguez and Michael Shifter asked area specialists to examine the electoral and governance factors that shed light on this transformation and the region's prospects. They gather their findings in the fourth edition of Constructing Democratic Governance in Latin America. This new edition is completely updated. Part I is thematic, covering issues of media, constitutionalism, the commodities boom, and fiscal management vis-à-vis governance. Part II focuses on eight important countries in the region—Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, and Venezuela. Already widely used in courses, Constructing Democratic Governance in Latin America will continue to interest students of Latin American politics, democratization studies, and comparative politics as well as policymakers.
Transforming Modernity
Title | Transforming Modernity PDF eBook |
Author | Néstor García Canclini |
Publisher | University of Texas Press |
Pages | 148 |
Release | 2010-06-28 |
Genre | Social Science |
ISBN | 0292789076 |
Is popular culture merely a process of creating, marketing, and consuming a final product, or is it an expression of the artist's surroundings and an attempt to alter them? Noted Argentine/Mexican anthropologist Néstor García Canclini addresses these questions and more in Transforming Modernity, a translation of Las culturas populares en el capitalismo. Based on fieldwork among the Purépecha of Michoacán, Mexico, some of the most talented artisans of the New World, the book is not so much a work of ethnography as of philosophy—a cultural critique of modernism. García Canclini delineates three interpretations of popular culture: spontaneous creation, which posits that artistic expression is the realization of beauty and knowledge; "memory for sale," which holds that original products are created for sale in the imposed capitalist system; and the tourist outlook, whereby collectibles are created to justify development and to provide insight into what capitalism has achieved. Transforming Modernity argues strongly for popular culture as an instrument of understanding, reproducing, and transforming the social system in order to elaborate and construct class hegemony and to reflect the unequal appropriation and distribution of cultural capital. With its wide scope, this book should appeal to readers within and well beyond anthropology—those interested in cultural theory, social thought, and Mesoamerican culture.