Latin America In Comparative Perspective

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. Preface -- About the book -- About the Editor and Contributors -- The Changing Agenda for Social Science Research on Latin America -- Analytical Strategies -- Contending Paradigms for Cross-Regional Comparison: Development Strategies and Commodity Chains in East Asia and Latin America -- Purposes and Methods of Intraregional Comparison -- Uses and Limitations of Rational Choice -- Conceptual Issues -- Rewriting the Scripts: Gender in the Comparative Study of Latin American Politics -- Trajectory of a Concept: “Corporatism” in the Study of Latin American Politics -- Assessments of State Strength -- Reassessing Political Culture -- Political Roles of Social Science -- Polls, Political Discourse, and the Public Sphere: The Spin on Peru’s Fuji-golpe -- Public Opinion Research in Mexico -- Public Opinion Research in Russia and Eastern Europe