Latin American Politics: An Introduction - Softcover

This is a compact, welcome addition to the shelf of survey textbooks on Latin American politics. [...] While seeking to provide sufficient historical, cultural, and political detail to do justice to the complexity of Latin America as a world region, the author also strives to link Latin American phenomena-for example, the dynamics of democratic breakdowns as well as democratic transitions-to broader conceptual debates in comparative politics. This book succeeds nicely in both respects. -- CHOICE

Highlighting eleven different topics in separate chapters, the thematic approach of Latin American Politics offers students the conceptual tools they need to analyze the political systems of all twenty Latin American nations. Such a structure makes the book self-consciously comparative, allowing students to become stronger analysts of comparative politics and better political scientists in general.