Research Catalog

Title

Handbook of Central American governance / editors, Diego Sánchez-Ancochea and Salvador Martí i Puig.

Publication

• London ; New York : Routledge, 2014.
• ©2014

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Details

Additional Authors

• Sánchez-Ancochea, Diego
• Martí i Puig, Salvador

Description

xiv, 470 pages : illustrations; 26 cm

Series Statement

Routledge international handbooks

Uniform Title

Routledge international handbooks.

Subject

• POLITICAL SCIENCE / International Relations / General
• POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political Process / General
• REFERENCE / General
• Politics and government
• Central America > Politics and government > Handbooks, manuals, etc
• Central America

Genre/Form

Handbooks and manuals.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Prologue : Modernizing Backwardness / Edelberto Torres-Rivas -- Introduction : Central America's Triple Transition and the Persistent Power of Elite / Salvador Martí i Puig and Diego Sánchez-Ancochea -- Part I. Development and Income (re)distribution -- The Great Transformation in Central America : Transnational Accumulation and the Evolution of Capital / Aaron Schneider -- Central American Migration, Remittances and Transnational Development / Ninna Nyberg Sørensen -- Natural Disasters, Climate Change and Environmental Challenges in Central America / Alfredo Stein -- The Distribution in Central America / T.H. Gindling and Juan Diego Trejos -- Social Policy in Central America : Stubborn Legacies, Positive yet Limited Change / Juliana Martínez Franzoni -- Part II : Democratization and the State -- Advancing the Study of Stateness in Central America : Methodology and Some Illustrative Findings / Jorge Vargas Cullel -- Authoritarian and Democratic Regimes in Central America / Fabrice Lehoucq -- Institutional Legitimacy in Central America : 2004-10 / John Booth and Mitchell A. Seligson -- Central America (High) Courts / Elema Martinez Barahona -- The Central American Military : Building Democratic Control in Post-Conflict Societies / Orlando J. Pérez and Rafael Martínez -- Drugs Trafficking and Governance in Central America / Otto Argueta -- Part III : Key Political and Social Actors -- Political Parties : the Right / Barry Cannon -- Political Parties : the Left / Salvador Marti i Puig -- The Transformation of Central American Economic Elites : from Local Tycoons to Transnational Business Groups / Benedicte Bull and Yuri Kasahara -- Social Movements in Central America / Rose J. Spalding -- Indigenous and Afro-Descendant Social Movements in Central America / Miguel González, Vivian Jiménez and Victor Manuel del Cid -- Part IV : International Relations -- Central America's Relations with the United States of America / Héctor Perla, Salvador Martí i Puig and Dany Burridge -- Central America's Relations with Latin America / Francisco Rojas Aravena and Pedro Caldentey del Pozo -- Regional Integration in Central America / Fernando Rueda-Junquera -- The Role of International Financial Institutions in Central America / Sarah Hunt -- Part V : Country Experiences -- Costa Rica / Alberto Cortés, Gerardo Hernández Naranjo and Diego Sánchez-Ancochea -- El Salvador / Mo Hume -- Guatemala / Pablo González -- Honduras / Michelle M. Taylor-Robinson -- Nicaragua / David Close.

Call Number

JFF 15-1313

ISBN

• 9781857436747 (hardback)
• 1857436741 (hardback)
• 9780203073148 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

2013022047

OCLC

856860970

Title

Handbook of Central American governance / editors, Diego Sánchez-Ancochea and Salvador Martí i Puig.

Publisher

London ; New York : Routledge, 2014.

Copyright Date

©2014

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Routledge international handbooks

Routledge international handbooks.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Added Author

Sánchez-Ancochea, Diego, editor.

Martí i Puig, Salvador, editor.

Research Call Number

JFF 15-1313