Patronage Politics and Contentious Collective Action: A Recursive Relationship

By Javier Auyero, Pablo Lapegna and Fernanda Page Poma
“Since the early 1990s, much of Latin America has witnessed the simultaneous growth of both protest and clientelism (Svampa and Pereyra 2003; Giarracca 2001; Giraudy 2007; Levitsky 2003; Stokes 2005; Auyero 2007; Almeida and Johnston 2006; Shefner et al. 2006; López-Maya and Lander 2006), a twin process [...]

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A New Vision for the Summit of the Americas

By Jeffrey W. Rubin and Emma Sokoloff-Rubin
“Today, once again, the idea of equitable development doesn’t seem radical, but rather makes common sense. And the potential for a hemispheric alliance is stronger than ever. Democracies in Latin America have already produced innovative strategies for tackling tough problems, from racial exclusion to urban poverty to migration, and [...]

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Power to which people?

Stephen Kingston
Red Pepper, October/November 2007.
Read it at http://www.redpepper.org.uk/article549.html
The government is promising ’devolution right to the doorstep’ as a
means of reinvigorating local democracy. A pilot participatory budget
making project, whereby people can ’have a direct say’ in how their
taxes are spent, has been running in Salford. Stephen Kingston questions its democratic credentials.
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L’ère des contrats : les ONG et l’insoutenable marchandisation de la solidarité

Sérgio Baierle
Mouvements no 47-48, 2006 (La Découverte)
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Municipal Neoliberalism and Municipal Socialism:Urban Political Economy in Contemporary Latin America

 
Benjamin Goldfrank – UNM/Political Science
Andrew Schrank – UNM/Sociology

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Urban Political Economy in Contemporary Latin America
 
 
 

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Local Governance: Cross National Trends and Research Issues

Mike Geddes
Valeria Guarneros-Meza
Local Governance: Cross National Trends and Research Issues

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