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Contents

List of figures, tables and boxes................................................................................... v

Preface .................................................................................................................. xiv

Acknowledgments.................................................................................................. xviii

Acronyms and abbreviations...................................................................................... xx

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Introduction................................................................................................................ 1

Part I An introduction to Latin American history

Chapter 1. From Independence to the 1930s............................................................... 11

Chapter 2. From the 1930s to the 1980s...................................................................... 39

Part II Institutions, processes and actors

Chapter 3. Democratization....................................................................................... 73

Chapter 4. Challenges facing democracy.................................................................. 114

Chapter 5. The presidency....................................................................................... 161

Chapter 6. Legislatures, parties, the judiciary and public administration........................ 190

Chapter 7. Established political actors....................................................................... 236

Chapter 8. Civil society and emergent political actors................................................. 284

Part III International relations

Chapter 9. Inter-state relations within Latin America................................................. 336

Chapter 10. The US and Latin America.................................................................... 384

Chapter 11. Latin America, Europe and Asia............................................................ 445

Part IV Political ideas

Chapter 12. Left and Right....................................................................................... 491

Chapter 13. Identities: Nationalism, Race and Feminism............................................. 561

Part V Economic ideas

Chapter 14. Structuralism and dependency................................................................ 615

Chapter 15. Neoliberalism........................................................................................ 652

Chapter 16. Redistributive models............................................................................. 698

Appendix A. Country timelines and factboxes........................................................... 753

Appendix B. Glossary.............................................................................................. 791

Appendix C. Dramatis personae............................................................................... 824

Bibliography............................................................................................................ 836

Index....................................................................................................................... (x)

Gavin O?Toole has taught Latin American politics and democratic theory at Queen Mary, University of London and was a Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow at London?s Institute for the Study of the Americas. He is also a publisher and journalist and is the author of The Reinvention of Mexico (forthcoming) and the co-editor of Che in Verse (2007).