Latin America at the End of Politics / Forrest D. Colburn.

• VerfasserIn: Colburn, Forrest D.,
• Place / Publishing House: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2018]; ©2002
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 Online-Resource

After decades of ideological struggle, much of it in the service of an elusive socialist ideal, Latin America has embraced liberalism--democracy and unfettered markets. But liberalism has triumphed more by default than through exuberance. The region's democracies are fragile and lethargic. Desp...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments
• Chapter 1. Introduction
• Chapter 2. Latin America as a Place
• Chapter 3. Urban Bias
• Chapter 4. An Ideological Vacuum
• Chapter 5. Fragile Democracies
• Chapter 6. The Business of Being in Business
• Chapter 7. Environmental Degradation
• Chapter 8. Malls
• Chapter 9. Crime
• Chapter 10. The Poor
• Chapter 11. Struggling for Gender Equality
• Chapter 12. El Gringo
• Chapter 13. What to Paint?
• Chapter 14. Migration
• Chapter 15. Conclusion
• Illustrations
• A Note about Sources
• Bibliography