In this Issue

Table of Contents

Social Capital and Political Participation in Latin America: Evidence from Argentina, Chile, Mexico, and Peru

Joseph L. Klesner
pp. 1-32
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lar.2007.0022
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The Distributive Politics of Emergency Employment Programs in Argentina (1993-2002)

Agustina Giraudy
pp. 33-55
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lar.2007.0021
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Homogamia educacional en México y Brasil, 1970-2000: Pautas y tendencias

Albert Esteve, Robert McCaa
pp. 56-85
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lar.2007.0020
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Between Order and Liberty: Juan Bautista Alberdi and the Intellectual Origins of Argentine Constitutionalism

Jeremy Adelman
pp. 86-110
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lar.2007.0015
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Language and Politics: On the Colombian "Establishment"

Eduardo Posada Carbó
pp. 111-135
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lar.2007.0026
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Do Competitive Elections Produce Better-Quality Governments?: Evidence From Mexican Municipalities, 1990-2000

Carlos Moreno-Jaimes
pp. 136-153
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lar.2007.0025
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Complejidad de la industria vitivinícola colonial: Crianza biológica de Vino (Reino de Chile Siglo XVIII)

Pablo Lacoste
pp. 154-168
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lar.2007.0023
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Political Ideas, Political Cultures: New Works on the Middle Period in Spanish America

Sarah C. Chambers
pp. 169-180
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lar.2007.0018
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Social Security in Latin America: Pension and Health Care Reforms in the Last Quarter Century

Carmelo Mesa-Lago
pp. 181-201
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lar.2007.0024
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Leadership, Responsibility, Perhaps Democracy: New Thinking about Latin American Development

Leslie Elliott Armijo
pp. 202-211
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lar.2007.0016
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Searching for a New Formula: Brazilian Political Economy in Reform

Jeffrey W. Cason
pp. 212-224
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lar.2007.0017
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Adjectives, Asterisks and Qualifications, or How to Address Democracy in Contemporary Latin America

Anthony Peter Spanakos
pp. 225-237
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lar.2007.0030
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The Patriarchy Problem: Sexism, Homophobia, and the Many Faces of Transgression to Normative Representations of Difference

Beatriz J. Rizk
pp. 238-252
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lar.2007.0028
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Narcocultura a ritmo norteño: El narcocorrido ante el nuevo milenio

Juan Carlos Ramírez-Pimienta
pp. 253-261
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lar.2007.0027
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Recent Scholarly and Popular Works on Capoeira

Joshua M. Rosenthal
pp. 262-272
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lar.2007.0029
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Notes on the Contributors

pp. 276-279
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lar.2007.0019
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