Latin American Politics and Society

Papers
(The TQCC of Latin American Politics and Society is 1. 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 2021-06-01 to 2025-06-01.)
ArticleCitations
From Second-Best to First-Best Veto Point: Explaining the Changing Uses of Judicial Review and Referendums in Uruguay20
The National Legislatures in the Enlargement of Mercosur: Paraguay’s Acceptance of Venezuela and Bolivia19
Matthew M. Taylor, Decadent Developmentalism: The Political Economy of Democratic Brazil. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Figures, tables, illustrations, abbreviations, notes, bibliograph15
LAP volume 65 issue 1 Cover and Front matter11
Disjointed Polarization in Chile’s Enduring Crisis of Representation – ERRATUM10
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
Changing Urban Movements Repertoires Following the Erosion of Porto Alegre’s Participatory Budgeting: From Institutionalized Participation to Deinstitutionalization9
Transitioning Guerrillas: An Analysis of the Internal Cohesion of the Former FARC in Their Transit from War to Democracy9
Too Legit to Quit? Analyzing the Effect of No-Confidence Motions on Cabinet Members’ Instability in Presidential Systems: The Cases of Colombia and Peru9
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.8
LAP volume 65 issue 4 Cover and Back matter8
A Unified Canon? Latin American Graduate Training in Comparative Politics7
The Opposite of Containment: Electoral System Change in Argentina’s 1912 Democratic Transition7
Civil War Legacies, The Prohibition of The Drug Trade, and Armed Politics in Latin America7
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 – CORRIGENDUM5
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
Weapons of Clients: Why Do Voters Support Bad Patrons? Ethnographic Evidence from Rural Brazil5
Varieties of Economic Vulnerability: Evidence on Social Policy Preferences and Labor Informality from Mexico5
A New Contract? The Joint Mobilization of Unionized and Contract Workers in Latin America5
LAP volume 64 issue 2 Cover and Front matter5
The Ideology of Brazilian Parties and Presidents: A Research Note on Coalitional Presidentialism Under Stress5
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
Caroline Doyle. Researching Crime and Violence in Medellín, Colombia: Truth versus Truths. London: Lexington Books, 2024, index 177 pp.; hardcover £45.58.4
LAP volume 66 issue 4 Cover and Front matter4
Affective polarization in Latin America: A research note4
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, bibliogra4
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 $84
Introduction4
Daniela Campello and Cesar Zucco, The Volatility Curse: Exogenous Shocks and Representation in Resource-Rich Democracies. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Figures, tables, appendixes, note4
The Unintended Consequences of Conditional Cash Transfer Programs for Violence: Experimental and Survey Evidence from Mexico and the Americas4
Political Rights Regulation by Deferral: Obstacles to External Voting in Uruguay3
Strategic Resources for Drug Trafficking Organizations and the Geography of Violence: Evidence from Mexico3
LAP volume 63 issue 4 Cover and Front matter3
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
Bolsonaro and the Black Vote: Racial Voting in Brazil’s 2018 Election3
A Strategic Approach to the Alliance-Formation Process Between Activists and Legislators in Chile3
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
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
Introduction: The New Polarization in Latin America3
Approaching Equality? Media Treatment of Male and Female Members of Presidential Cabinets in a Cross-Country Comparison3
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
Enforcing Citizen Participation Through Litigation: Analyzing the Outcomes of Anti-Dam Movements in Brazil and Chile2
The Political and Pragmatic Determinants of Chinese Development Finance in Latin America and the Caribbean, 2008–20192
New Avenues in the Study of Crime, Violence, and State in Latin America2
Gone with the Rebels: Reshaping Local Orders in Post-Peace Agreement Colombia2
The Losing Battle Against Neoliberal Trade Agreements in Latin America: Social Resistance Against the MTA Between Ecuador, Peru, and the European Union2
LAP volume 65 issue 2 Cover and Back matter2
Participatory clientelism: A socio-spatial approach to popular politics in Buenos Aires2
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
Latin America’s Polarization in Comparative Perspective2
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 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
Rethinking the Right in Latin America2
Advocacy, Misdirection, Protest, and Exit: Strategies of Aspiration and Anxiety amid Crime and Conflict in Putumayo2
The Comparative Politics of Latin America: Who Knows What and How?1
Learning Targets: Policy Paradigms and State Responses to the Anticorruption Transnational Advocacy Network Campaign in Guatemala1
New Donors, New Goals? Altruism, Self-Interest, and Domestic Political Support in Development Cooperation in Latin America1
André Borges and Robert Vidigal, eds., Para Entender a Nova Direita Brasileira: Polarização, Populismo e Antipetismo. Porto Alegre: Editora Zouk, 2023. Tables, figures, 426 pp.; paperback $15.62.1
On Lula and His Politics of Cunning1
Gustavo Flores-Macías, Contemporary State Building: Elite Taxation and Public Safety in Latin America. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Figures, tables, bibliography, index, 260 pp.; hardco1
Benjamin A. Cowan, Moral Majorities Across the Americas: Brazil, the United States, and the Creation of the Religious Right. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2021. Photographs, notes, 1
LAP volume 64 issue 4 Cover and Front matter1
Maxwell A. Cameron and Grace M. Jaramillo , eds., Challenges to Democracy in the Andes: Strongmen, Broken Constitutions, and Regimes in Crisis. Boulder: Lynne Rienner, 2022. Tables, figures, 21
Foreign Policy Specificity: An Analysis of Ministerial Survival in Latin America, 1945–20201
Political Control and Bureaucratic Resistance: The Case of Environmental Agencies in Brazil1
Jennifer Adair, In Search of the Lost Decade: Everyday Rights in Post-Dictatorship Argentina. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2020. Illustrations, notes, bibliography, index, 208 pp.;1
The Drug Trade and State Violence in Internal Conflicts: Evidence from Peru1
Informalities: An Index Approach to Informal Work and Its Consequences1
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 $99.91
Lost in Corporate Translation: How Firms Mediate Between Social Mobilization and Regulatory Intervention in the Extractive Sector1
Activating without Transforming: The Use of Technology to Engage Activists in Political Campaigns1
Carrots or sticks? Analyzing the application of US economic statecraft towards Latin American engagement with China1
Political Trust and Ecological Crisis Perceptions in Developing Economies: Evidence from Ecuador1
Polarization and Populism in Latin America1
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