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The Origins of Presidential Conditional Agenda-Setting Power in Latin America

Eduardo Aleman, George Tsebelis
pp. 3-26
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lar.2005.0017
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Television and Neopopulism in Latin America: Media Effects in Brazil and Peru

Taylor C. Boas
pp. 27-49
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lar.2005.0019
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Gendering Class in Latin America: How Women Effect and Experience Change in the Class Structure

Amy Hite, Jocelyn S. Viterna
pp. 50-82
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lar.2005.0023
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Mortality Decline in Cuba, 1900-1959: Patterns, Comparisons, and Causes

James W. McGuire, Laura B. Frankel
pp. 83-116
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lar.2005.0025
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Signed with an X: Methodology and Data Sources for Analyzing the Evolution of Literacy in Latin America and the Caribbean, 1900-1950

Javier Nunez Errazuriz
pp. 117-135
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lar.2005.0028
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Guerillas, Soldiers, Paramilitaries, Assassins, Narcos, and Gringos: The Unhappy Prospects for Peace and Democracy in Colombia

W. John Green
pp. 137-149
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lar.2005.0022
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Patriots, Poverty, Taxes, and Death: Recent Work on Mexican History, 1750-1850

Donald Fithian Stevens
pp. 150-165
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lar.2005.0031
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Recent Chicana/o Cultural Criticism

David William Foster
pp. 166-175
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lar.2005.0021
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Healers, Healing, and Child Well-being: Ideologies, Institutions, and Health in Latin America and the Caribbean

Anne-Emanuelle Birn
pp. 176-192
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lar.2005.0018
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Biography and Latin American History

Michael Monteon
pp. 193-206
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lar.2005.0026
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Democracy and Development in Latin America

George D. E. Philip
pp. 207-220
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lar.2005.0029
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Argentina: A Hundred and Fifty Years of Democratic Praxis

David Rock
pp. 221-234
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lar.2005.0030
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Recent Books on Latin American and Latino/a Popular Culture

Charles Edward Tatum
pp. 235-241
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lar.2005.0032
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Reconstructing Brazil: Institutional Reform, Economic Liberalism, and Pluralism

Brian Wampler
pp. 242-252
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lar.2005.0033
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From Democracy to Development: The Political Economy of Post-Neoliberal Reform in Latin America

Alfred P. Montero
pp. 253-267
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lar.2005.0027
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Narrative, Criticism, and Politics: Negotiating Latin American Transition

Ryan Fred Long
pp. 268-280
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lar.2005.0024
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Notes on Contributors

pp. 284-287
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1353/lar.2005.0020
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