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Latin America In Comparative Perspective: New Approaches To Methods And Analysis (Latin America in Global Perspective)

✍ Scribed by Peter H Smith (editor)

Publisher
Westview Press
Year
1995
Tongue
English
Leaves
329
Series
Latin America in Global Perspective
Category
Library
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✦ Synopsis

This book highlights the necessity of analyzing Latin American society and politics within broad comparative frameworks. It explores methodological strategies for regional comparison and offers new approaches to the study of women, state power, corporatism, and political culture.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
List of Tables and Figures
Preface
List of Acronyms
CHAPTER ONE: The Changing Agenda for Social Science Research on Latin America
PART ONE: ANALYTICAL STRATEGIES
CHAPTER TWO: Contending Paradigms for Cross-Regional Comparison: Development Strategies and Commodity Chains in East Asia and Latin America
CHAPTER THREE: Purposes and Methods of lntraregional Comparison
CHAPTER FOUR: Uses and Limitations of Rational Choice
PART TWO: CONCEPTUAL ISSUES
CHAPTER FIVE: Rewriting the Scripts: Gender in the Comparative Study of Latin American Politics
CHAPTER SIX: Trajectory of a Concept: "Corporatism" in the Study of Latin American Politics
CHAPTER SEVEN: Assessments of State Strength
CHAPTER EIGHT: Reassessing Political Culture
PART THREE: POLITICAL ROLES OF SOCIAL SCIENCE
CHAPTER NINE: Polls, Political Discourse, and the Public Sphere: The Spin on Peru's Fuji-golpe
CHAPTER TEN: Public Opinion Research in Mexico
CHAPTER ELEVEN: Public Opinion Research in Russia and Eastern Europe
About the Book
About the Editor and Contributors
Index

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