In this Issue

Table of Contents

Editor's Foreword: LARR’s New Relationship with LASA

Philip Oxhorn
pp. 3-5
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lar.2008.0011
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Articles

La primera mujer presidenta de Chile: ¿Qué explicó el triunfo de Michelle Bachelet en las elecciones de 2005–2006?

Mauricio Morales Quiroga
pp. 7-32
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lar.2008.0013
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Localizing and Globalizing Processes in Brazilian Catholicism: Comparing Inculturation in Liberationist and Charismatic Catholic Cultures

Marjo de Theije, Cecília Loreto Mariz
pp. 33-54
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lar.2008.0007
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Macroeconomic Deeds, Not Reform Words: The Determinants of Foreign Direct Investment in Latin America

Alfred P. Montero
pp. 55-83
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lar.2008.0008
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Integracíon monetaria y financiera en América del Sur y en Asia

Julimar da Silva Bichara, André Moreira Cunha, Marcos Tadeo Caputi Lélis
pp. 84-112
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lar.2008.0000
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Vivir (en) la Ciudad de México: Espacio vivido e imaginarios espaciales de un grupo de migrantes de alta calificación

Anna Ortiz Guitart, Cristóbal Mendoza
pp. 113-138
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lar.2008.0016
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Gendered Selectivity: U.S. Mexican Immigrants and Mexican Nonmigrants, 1960–2000

Cynthia Feliciano
pp. 139-160
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lar.2008.0009
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The Organic Agro-Export Boom in the Dominican Republic: Maintaining Tradition or Fostering Transformation?

Laura T. Raynolds
pp. 161-184
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lar.2008.0001
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Research Reports and Notes

China Matters: China’s Economic Impact in Latin America

Kevin Gallagher, Roberto Porzecanski
pp. 185-200
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lar.2008.0012
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Review Essays

Frontier Theory as an Explanatory Tool for Brazilian History: A Viable Construct?

Jane M. Rausch
pp. 201-207
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lar.2008.0015
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Gilberto Freyre: The Reassessment Continues

David Lehmann
pp. 208-218
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lar.2008.0002
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Race, Gender, and Ethnicity in Contemporary Brazil

Mónica Treviño González
pp. 219-224
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lar.2008.0014
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Latin Americans at Home Abroad

Judith A. Boruchoff
pp. 225-234
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lar.2008.0003
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Understanding Past and Present Changes in Latin American Cities

Dominique Vidal
pp. 235-244
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lar.2008.0010
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The Third Wave of Democracy: Findings and Implications

Fabrice Edouard Lehoucq
pp. 245-254
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lar.2008.0005
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Of Time and Space in Mexico, Native and Colonial

John Frederick Schwaller
pp. 255-265
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lar.2008.0004
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Contributors

Notes on the Contributors

pp. 270-273
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lar.2008.0006
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