Latin American Politics and Society

Papers
(The TQCC of Latin American Politics and Society is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2021-08-01 to 2025-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
From Second-Best to First-Best Veto Point: Explaining the Changing Uses of Judicial Review and Referendums in Uruguay21
The National Legislatures in the Enlargement of Mercosur: Paraguay’s Acceptance of Venezuela and Bolivia20
Matthew M. Taylor, Decadent Developmentalism: The Political Economy of Democratic Brazil. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Figures, tables, illustrations, abbreviations, notes, bibliograph15
Disjointed Polarization in Chile’s Enduring Crisis of Representation – ERRATUM12
LAP volume 65 issue 1 Cover and Front matter12
Changing Urban Movements Repertoires Following the Erosion of Porto Alegre’s Participatory Budgeting: From Institutionalized Participation to Deinstitutionalization11
Too Legit to Quit? Analyzing the Effect of No-Confidence Motions on Cabinet Members’ Instability in Presidential Systems: The Cases of Colombia and Peru10
When Do First Ladies Run for Office? Lessons from Latin America10
Taylor C. Boas . Evangelicals and Electoral Politics in Latin America: A Kingdom of This World. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2023. 317 pp.; hardcover $68.41, paperback $34.99, ebook $33.249
Transitioning Guerrillas: An Analysis of the Internal Cohesion of the Former FARC in Their Transit from War to Democracy9
Mariana Llanos, and Leiv Marsteintredet, eds., Latin America in Times of Turbulence. Presidentialism under Stress. New York: Routledge, 2023. 225 pp.; tables, bibliography, hardcover, index.9
The Opposite of Containment: Electoral System Change in Argentina’s 1912 Democratic Transition8
LAP volume 65 issue 4 Cover and Back matter8
Civil War Legacies, The Prohibition of The Drug Trade, and Armed Politics in Latin America7
Orçun Selçuk . The Authoritarian Divide: Populism, Propaganda, and Polarization. Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2024. Figures, tables, appendices, references, index, 332 pp.; Hardcover $67
A Unified Canon? Latin American Graduate Training in Comparative Politics7
LAP volume 64 issue 2 Cover and Front matter6
LAP volume 63 issue 4 Cover and Back matter6
Government and Opposition in Legislative Speechmaking: Using Text-As-Data to Estimate Brazilian Political Parties’ Policy Positions – CORRIGENDUM6
Daniela Campello and Cesar Zucco, The Volatility Curse: Exogenous Shocks and Representation in Resource-Rich Democracies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Figures, tables, appendixes, note5
Introduction5
Weapons of Clients: Why Do Voters Support Bad Patrons? Ethnographic Evidence from Rural Brazil5
Viviana Beatriz Macmanus , Disruptive Archives: Feminist Memories of Resistance in Latin America’s Dirty Wars. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2020. Photographs, figures, bibliography, in5
Rose J. Spalding, Breaking Ground: From Extraction Booms to Mining Bans in Latin America. New York: Oxford University Press, 2023. Tables, figures, bibliography, index, 308 pp.; Hardcover and ebook $85
Claudia Bacci and Alejandra Oberti, eds., Testimonios, géneros y afectos. América Latina desde los territorios y las memorias del presente. Villa María: Eduvim, 2022. Figures, tables, notes, bibliogra5
Matías Dewey, Making It at Any Cost: Aspirations and Politics in a Counterfeit Clothing Marketplace. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2020. Photographs, maps, appendix, figure, notes, bibliography, 5
The Ideology of Brazilian Parties and Presidents: A Research Note on Coalitional Presidentialism Under Stress5
LAP volume 66 issue 4 Cover and Front matter5
Caroline Doyle. Researching Crime and Violence in Medellín, Colombia: Truth versus Truths. London: Lexington Books, 2024, index 177 pp.; hardcover £45.58.5
A New Contract? The Joint Mobilization of Unionized and Contract Workers in Latin America5
Varieties of Economic Vulnerability: Evidence on Social Policy Preferences and Labor Informality from Mexico5
Affective polarization in Latin America: A research note4
Strategic Resources for Drug Trafficking Organizations and the Geography of Violence: Evidence from Mexico4
Introduction: The New Polarization in Latin America4
Bolsonaro and the Black Vote: Racial Voting in Brazil’s 2018 Election4
Political Rights Regulation by Deferral: Obstacles to External Voting in Uruguay4
The Unintended Consequences of Conditional Cash Transfer Programs for Violence: Experimental and Survey Evidence from Mexico and the Americas4
Approaching Equality? Media Treatment of Male and Female Members of Presidential Cabinets in a Cross-Country Comparison4
A Strategic Approach to the Alliance-Formation Process Between Activists and Legislators in Chile4
Thamy Pogrebinschi . Innovating Democracy? The Means and Ends of Citizen Participation in Latin America. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2023. Tables, figures, bibliography, 104 pp.; paperback 3
LAP volume 63 issue 4 Cover and Front matter3
LAP volume 67 issue 2 Cover and Front matter3
Enforcing Citizen Participation Through Litigation: Analyzing the Outcomes of Anti-Dam Movements in Brazil and Chile3
The Losing Battle Against Neoliberal Trade Agreements in Latin America: Social Resistance Against the MTA Between Ecuador, Peru, and the European Union3
Paul Lagunes, The Eye and the Whip: Corruption Control in the Americas. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. Figures, tables, illustrations, bibliography, index, 168 pp.; hardcover $74, ebook.3
Latin America’s Polarization in Comparative Perspective3
LAP volume 65 issue 2 Cover and Back matter3
Pedro Henrique Batista Barbosa, China, Brazil and Petroleum: The Role of China in Brazil’s Transformation into an Oil Power. Singapore: Palgrave Macmillan, 2024. Tables, figures, bibliography, index, 3
Carew Boulding and Claudio A. Holzner, Voice and Inequality: Poverty and Political Participation in Latin American Democracies. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021. Figures, tables, appendixes, note3
Michael Schedelik, The Political Economy of Upgrading Regimes: Brazil and Beyond, Cham: Palgrave Macmillan, 2023. Figures, tables, bibliography, index, 297 pp.; hardcover $139.99, paperback $139.99, e3
Advocacy, Misdirection, Protest, and Exit: Strategies of Aspiration and Anxiety amid Crime and Conflict in Putumayo2
Participatory clientelism: A socio-spatial approach to popular politics in Buenos Aires2
Gone with the Rebels: Reshaping Local Orders in Post-Peace Agreement Colombia2
Informalities: An Index Approach to Informal Work and Its Consequences2
Learning Targets: Policy Paradigms and State Responses to the Anticorruption Transnational Advocacy Network Campaign in Guatemala2
New Avenues in the Study of Crime, Violence, and State in Latin America2
The Political and Pragmatic Determinants of Chinese Development Finance in Latin America and the Caribbean, 2008–20192
Rethinking the Right in Latin America2
LAP volume 64 issue 4 Cover and Front matter2
The Comparative Politics of Latin America: Who Knows What and How?2
Carlos A. Pérez Ricart, Cien años de espías y drogas. La historia de los agentes antinarcóticos de Estados Unidos en México. Mexico City: Penguin Random House, 2022. Bibliography, 375 pp.; paperback M2
Surges vs. Waves: Presidents, Popularity, and the Diffusion of Conditional Cash Transfers in Latin America2
It’s Not Me, It’s You: Self-Interest, Social Affinity, and Support for Redistribution in Latin America2
Amy Erica Smith, Religion and Brazilian Democracy: Mobilizing the People of God. Cambridge, Cambridge University Press, 2019. Figures, tables, appendixes, bibliography, index, 222 pp.; hardcover $99.92
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