Project MUSE®: Latin American Research Review

Project MUSE®: Latin American Research Review - Latest Articles https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/226 Project MUSE®: Latest articles in Latin American Research Review. daily 1 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 text/html en-US Vol. 38 (2003) through Vol. 51 (2016) Latest Articles: Latin American Research Review TWO Project MUSE® Latin American Research Review 1542-4278 0023-8791 Latest articles in Latin American Research Review. Feed provided by Project MUSE® The Engagement Curve: Populism and Political Engagement in Latin America https://muse.jhu.edu/article/639902 Given that structural inequality is consistently high across Latin America, why do the poor show more political engagement in some polities than in others? Many theories have addressed this relationship, but these studies tend to have variables associated with economic development as their primary causal factors, treating political variables as secondary. For example, Solt (2008) found a direct negative effect of inequality on political engagement in wealthy democracies. Within the democratization literature there have been several studies (e.g., Boix 2003; Acemoglu and Robinson 2006; Rueschemeyer 2004) that have modeled more contingent relations between inequality and attitudes, but such approaches are extremely ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/639918">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/226/image/coversmall The Engagement Curve: Populism and Political Engagement in Latin America 2016-12-02 text/html en-US The Engagement Curve: Populism and Political Engagement in Latin America 2016-12-02 2016 TWO Project MUSE® 132197 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2016-12-02 The Casa and the Causa: Institutional Histories and Cultural Politics in Brazilian Land Reform https://muse.jhu.edu/article/639903 In recent years, writing on the Latin American state has come “back in vogue” (Bersch, Praça, and Taylor 2013, 2). Thirty years into the so-called Third Wave of democracy (Huntington 1991), considerable scholarship has accumulated that analyzes the nature, organization, and effect of state politics within and between countries. New work continues on state structures (Evans and Rauch 1999), state capacity (Geddes 1994; Kurtz and Schrank 2012), good (and good enough) governance (Tendler 1997 and Grindle 2004, respectively; see also Sugiyama and Hunter 2013), participatory democracy (Abers 2000; Baiocchi 2005; Wampler 2007) and institutional change (Schrank 2013). That this is a rich literature is not contested ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/639918">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/226/image/coversmall The Casa and the Causa: Institutional Histories and Cultural Politics in Brazilian Land Reform 2016-12-02 text/html en-US The Casa and the Causa: Institutional Histories and Cultural Politics in Brazilian Land Reform 2016-12-02 2016 TWO Project MUSE® 112210 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2016-12-02 International Public Finance and the Rise of Brazil: Comparing Brazil’s Use of Regionalism with Its Unilateralism and Bilateralism https://muse.jhu.edu/article/639904 Building on the economic policy successes of his predecessor, Fernando Cardoso, who was credited with ending hyperinflation in the mid-1990s and restarting growth with a floating exchange rate, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva (president 2002–2010) is widely considered to have helped transform Brazil into one of the world’s most notable emerging market economies. Brazil’s gross domestic product rose from USD 500 billion to USD 2.5 trillion in just a decade, its industrial modernization and resource development have been impressive, and it has become a significant source of direct investment abroad while remaining a major site for incoming foreign direct investment.1For a much longer period, Latin America has generated a ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/639918">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/226/image/coversmall International Public Finance and the Rise of Brazil: Comparing Brazil’s Use of Regionalism with Its Unilateralism and Bilateralism 2016-12-02 text/html en-US International Public Finance and the Rise of Brazil: Comparing Brazil’s Use of Regionalism with Its Unilateralism and Bilateralism 2016-12-02 2016 TWO Project MUSE® 113915 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2016-12-02 Cárteles de droga, violencia y competitividad electoral a nivel local: Evidencia del caso mexicano https://muse.jhu.edu/article/639905 Este artículo explica los efectos de la violencia y, en particular, los de aquélla relacionada con los cárteles de droga sobre la competitividad electoral a nivel local (municipal).1 Si ciertos factores ajenos al diseño del sistema electoral o a las preferencias de los votantes pueden distorsionar los resultados electorales para favorecer circunstancial o persistentemente a alguna alternativa electoral, la competitividad electoral disminuye. Niveles altos de competitividad electoral resultan esenciales para el funcionamiento de la democracia. De acuerdo con la definición minimalista de la democracia, la oposición o cualquier alternativa electoral deben de tener razonables posibilidades de ganar una elección (Dahl ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/639918">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/226/image/coversmall Cárteles de droga, violencia y competitividad electoral a nivel local: Evidencia del caso mexicano 2016-12-02 text/html en-US Cárteles de droga, violencia y competitividad electoral a nivel local: Evidencia del caso mexicano 2016-12-02 2016 TWO Project MUSE® 160015 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2016-12-02 O funk no Brasil contemporâneo: Uma música que incomoda https://muse.jhu.edu/article/639906 A premissa de que determinadas pessoas compartilham ideias a partir de uma experiência musical comum tem sido tomada como ponto de partida para diversos estudos sobre música e sociedade. Seja sob o ponto de escuta de uma formação subjetiva (DeNora 2004) ou da afirmação de um caráter coletivo das práticas musicais (Wisnik 1999; Blacking 1995), a música costuma ser abordada como uma prática social à qual indivíduos e grupos voluntariamente aderem, gostam e utilizam, através de determinados repertórios (entre muitos outros, Sandroni 2001; Janotti 2004; Trotta 2011). Quase sempre, essa premissa estabelece que a construção de um gosto musical comum é o vetor através do qual os debates sobre sonoridades, moralidades ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/639918">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/226/image/coversmall O funk no Brasil contemporâneo: Uma música que incomoda 2016-12-02 text/html en-US O funk no Brasil contemporâneo: Uma música que incomoda 2016-12-02 2016 TWO Project MUSE® 75301 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2016-12-02 ¿Es posible una arqueología sin excavación?: El caso de la quebrada de humahuaca en el contexto sudamericano https://muse.jhu.edu/article/639907 En el transcurso de esta última década, los escenarios políticos, sociales y académicos en los cuales se desarrollaron las investigaciones arqueológicas en Sudamérica en general, y en nuestra región de estudios en particular, se han modificado mucho. En especial, en relación con la aparición y la construcción de las concepciones sobre el patrimonio y el territorio.De acuerdo con algunos autores, uno de los principales factores que ha contribuido en forma decisiva a esta situación en nuestra región de estudios fue la declaratoria por parte de la Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la Educación, la Ciencia y la Cultura (UNESCO) en el año 2003 de la Quebrada de Humahuaca como Patrimonio de la Humanidad en la ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/639918">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/226/image/coversmall ¿Es posible una arqueología sin excavación?: El caso de la quebrada de humahuaca en el contexto sudamericano 2016-12-02 text/html en-US ¿Es posible una arqueología sin excavación?: El caso de la quebrada de humahuaca en el contexto sudamericano 2016-12-02 2016 TWO Project MUSE® 110263 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2016-12-02 Velha casa patriarcal: Patriarcalismo e farsa em Machado de Assis https://muse.jhu.edu/article/639908 Em “Casa velha”, conto publicado no periódico A Estação entre janeiro de 1885 e fevereiro de 1886, destaca-se uma passagem em que o narrador descreve “o pequeno mundo” governado com “muita discrição, brandura e justiça” por Dona Antônia, viúva de um ex-ministro de Pedro I:Casa, hábitos, pessoas davam-me ares de outro tempo, exalavam um cheiro de vida clássica. Não era raro o uso de capela particular; o que me pareceu único foi a disposição daquela, a tribuna de família, a sepultura do chefe, ali mesmo, ao pé dos seus, fazendo lembrar as primitivas sociedades em que florescia a religião doméstica e o culto privado dos mortos. […] Com efeito, a casa era uma espécie de vila ou fazenda, onde os dias, ao contrário de um ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/639918">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/226/image/coversmall Velha casa patriarcal: Patriarcalismo e farsa em Machado de Assis 2016-12-02 text/html en-US Velha casa patriarcal: Patriarcalismo e farsa em Machado de Assis 2016-12-02 2016 TWO Project MUSE® 94902 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2016-12-02 Los viajes olvidados de la democracia: Circulación y apropiación de la legislación electoral en Colombia, 1855–1886 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/639909 Bajo la Era de las Revoluciones (c. 1760–1850), y todavía en la segunda mitad del siglo XIX, la superficie de la tierra relucía dominada por los imperios y los reinos. No bastaba para los nacientes estados con gritar a los cuatro vientos su independencia pues requerían del reconocimiento de otros gobiernos, tal y como lo habían atestiguado los revolucionarios en los Estados Unidos en 1776 (Armitage 2013; Elliott 2010). Poco después de la súbita disolución del imperio de los Borbones, una multitud de ideas de soberanía había florecido en la América española, tal vez sin paralelo palpable en el mundo (Adelman 2010). Los gobiernos representativos de México, Perú y Colombia pronto cobraron tras de sí una desconocida ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/639918">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/226/image/coversmall Los viajes olvidados de la democracia: Circulación y apropiación de la legislación electoral en Colombia, 1855–1886 2016-12-02 text/html en-US Los viajes olvidados de la democracia: Circulación y apropiación de la legislación electoral en Colombia, 1855–1886 2016-12-02 2016 TWO Project MUSE® 143694 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2016-12-02 Pursuing Costly Reform: The Case of Ecuadorian Natural Resource Management https://muse.jhu.edu/article/639910 What drives politicians in less developed democracies to expand public goods provision when such policy reforms are typically costly, both materially and politically? Costly reforms are especially unlikely in countries with high levels of corruption, clientelism, weak party systems, poverty, political inequality, and other conditions associated with “bad governance.” According to conventional wisdom (based on Western democratic models), strong programmatic parties and political competition are what provide incentives for politicians to pursue socially “responsible” policy (Key 1964; Sartori 1976; Wilson 1885). Recent scholarship notes, however, that in less developed democracies—including those found throughout ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/639918">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/226/image/coversmall Pursuing Costly Reform: The Case of Ecuadorian Natural Resource Management 2016-12-02 text/html en-US Pursuing Costly Reform: The Case of Ecuadorian Natural Resource Management 2016-12-02 2016 TWO Project MUSE® 129568 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2016-12-02 Entrepreneurship and Socioeconomic Indicators in Latin America https://muse.jhu.edu/article/639911 Entrepreneurship has only fairly recently been an explanatory factor for economic growth (Acs and Storey 2004; Wennekers and Thurik 1999). Research on economic growth from the past century concluded that capital and labor were the main sources of economic growth (Solow 1956). The firm was viewed as a chain of contracts that attenuate transaction costs (Coase 1937). Later, knowledge was included among the factors that explained economic growth. Scholars believed that large organizations had competitive advantages (Chandler 1990) because knowledge was too expensive and advanced for small business to handle. From that perspective, success at the international level was associated with larger companies (Gomes-Casseres ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/639918">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/226/image/coversmall Entrepreneurship and Socioeconomic Indicators in Latin America 2016-12-02 text/html en-US Entrepreneurship and Socioeconomic Indicators in Latin America 2016-12-02 2016 TWO Project MUSE® 105728 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2016-12-02 Public Communication in the Brazilian Congress: The News Agency and TV Station of the Chamber of Deputies https://muse.jhu.edu/article/639912 The past twenty-five years have brought fundamental changes to government communications in Brazil. The development of democracy (reinstalled in Brazil in 1985 after twenty years of military dictatorship) and of communications technologies has created the need and opportunity for Brazilian governmental institutions in all branches (including the legislative) to create a comprehensive communications system, justified by the constitutional principle of publicity. The political decision to invest considerable resources and efforts in the development of this system resulted from a diagnosis that these institutions lacked credibility and from the belief that commercial media have contributed to the cultivation of ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/639918">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/226/image/coversmall Public Communication in the Brazilian Congress: The News Agency and TV Station of the Chamber of Deputies 2016-12-02 text/html en-US Public Communication in the Brazilian Congress: The News Agency and TV Station of the Chamber of Deputies 2016-12-02 2016 TWO Project MUSE® 121397 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2016-12-02 Urban Violence, Political Economy, and Territorial Control: Insights from Medellín https://muse.jhu.edu/article/639913 In 2014 Medellín added the Innovative City of the Year award to the long list of accolades that Colombia’s second largest city has earned over the past decade for its transformation from the world’s most violent city into a model of urban governance. Upon accepting the award, Mayor Aníbal Gaviria (2012–2015) noted that despite the city’s troubled history, Medellín is “constantly reinventing itself.”1 But to what extent is this seeming reinvention more a reconfiguration of powerful political, economic, and criminal interests?In the early 1990s and the mid-2000s Medellín attempted innovative political projects in response to violence that aimed to channel socioeconomic investment into poor and violent parts of the ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/639918">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/226/image/coversmall Urban Violence, Political Economy, and Territorial Control: Insights from Medellín 2016-12-02 text/html en-US Urban Violence, Political Economy, and Territorial Control: Insights from Medellín 2016-12-02 2016 TWO Project MUSE® 166514 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2016-12-02 Asset Accumulation through International Migration: Gender, Remittances, and Decision Making in Ecuador https://muse.jhu.edu/article/639914 Regions of heavy international migration in Latin America can often be visually distinguished by the two- to three-story houses made of concrete blocks or bricks dotting the landscape.1 Relatively little is known, however, about the decision-making process behind the use of remittances to build these homes and, particularly, to whom these assets belong—the remitter, the recipient, or both together? Further, are there gender differences in these patterns?A long-standing concern of feminist researchers is whether international migration contributes to greater gender equality, now a widely accepted goal of development. Most analyses have focused on changes in gender roles and whether these support more egalitarian ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/639918">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/226/image/coversmall Asset Accumulation through International Migration: Gender, Remittances, and Decision Making in Ecuador 2016-12-02 text/html en-US Asset Accumulation through International Migration: Gender, Remittances, and Decision Making in Ecuador 2016-12-02 2016 TWO Project MUSE® 132904 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2016-12-02 Toward Asian Argentine Studies https://muse.jhu.edu/article/639915 In her 2009 essay “Multiculturalism in Latin American Studies: Locating the ‘Asian’ Immigrant; or, Where Are the Chinos and Turcos?” Evelyn Hu-DeHart (2009, 237) observed that a new group of scholars was correcting the long tradition of “glaring inattention to Asians in Latin America.” The reversal has continued with the emergence of an array of monographs, edited volumes, special journal issues, conferences, and new journals that address Asian peoples of Latin America from both national and transnational perspectives. Reflecting scholars’ interest in carving out a space for the study of Asians in Latin America that would resist mediation by more established fields such as Asian American studies but also transcend ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/639918">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/226/image/coversmall Toward Asian Argentine Studies 2016-12-02 text/html en-US Toward Asian Argentine Studies 2016-12-02 2016 TWO Project MUSE® 103659 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2016-12-02 Notes on the Contributors https://muse.jhu.edu/article/639917 verónica judith acevedo es becaria doctoral de Instituto de Arqueología, Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Buenos Aires.gina alvarado is a sociologist and gender and evaluation specialist at the International Center for Research on Women (ICRW). Previously she was a postdoctoral research associate at the Center for Latin American Studies, University of Florida, on a UN Women–funded study of gender and remittances in Ecuador. Her work is focused on women’s well-being and access to assets, as well as gender violence and rights. Her current portfolio at ICRW includes managing projects and research to improve women’s access to justice and property rights, as well as investigating the social costs of ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/639918">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/226/image/coversmall Notes on the Contributors 2016-12-02 text/html en-US Notes on the Contributors 2016-12-02 2016 TWO Project MUSE® 15095 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2016-12-02 Latin American Research Review: Volume 52 Number 1 2017 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/639918 policing economic growth: mining, protest, and state discourse in peru and argentinaAriel Taylor and Michelle D. Bonnerperformance of students admitted through affirmative action in brazilRubia R. Valente and Brian J. L. Berryeducação para as elites: financiamento e ensino primário no brasil, 1930–1964Thomas H. Kang“por los que quieren un gobierno de avanzada popular”: nuevas prácticas políticas en la campaña presidencial de la democracia cristiana, chile, 1962–1964José Tomás Labarcaundesired presences: samba, improvisation, and pan-africanism in 1970s brazilStephen A. Bocskayentrepreneurship in favela da rocinha, rio de janeiro: a critical approachIsabella Nunes Pereira, Roberto Bartholo, Édison Renato Silva and ... <a href="https://muse.jhu.edu/article/639918">Read More</a> Project MUSE® https://muse.jhu.edu/ 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 https://muse.jhu.edu/journal/226/image/coversmall Latin American Research Review: Volume 52 Number 1 2017 2016-12-02 text/html en-US Latin American Research Review: Volume 52 Number 1 2017 2016-12-02 2016 TWO Project MUSE® 2966 2026-05-12T00:00:00-05:00 2016-12-02