In 2007, the left came to power in Ecuador. In the years that followed, the “twenty-first-
century socialist” government and a coalition of grassroots activists came to blows over the …

This book offers an innovative perspective on the ever-widening gap between the poor and
the state in Latin American politics. It presents a comprehensive analysis of the main social …

Where party identification is in decay or in flux, alternative political identifications have
gained centrality. In this Element, the author develops a typology of post-partisan political …

Why does territory matter to social movements and what does it allow them to achieve?
Despite the ever-apparent centrality of territory—the appropriation and control of space …

In State-Sponsored Activism, Rich explores AIDS policy in Brazil as a lens to offer new
insight into state-society relations in democratic and post-neoliberal Latin America. In …

Over the last two decades, academic debates around neoliberalism in Latin America have
shifted from evaluations of the drawbacks and virtues of the application of neoliberal policies …

Many contemporary party organizations are failing to fulfill their representational role in
contemporary democracies. While political scientists tend to rely on a minimalist definition of …

Latin American states took dramatic steps toward greater inclusion during the late twentieth
and early twenty-first Centuries. Bringing together an accomplished group of scholars, this …

The first large-scale study of political participation in eighteen Latin American democracies,
focusing on the political participation of the region's poorest citizens. Political regimes in …

Mining and hydrocarbon production in Latin America is a high-stakes endeavor. Extractive
industries have expanded dramatically in recent decades amid soaring global prices and …