Books from North-South Center Press
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Reinventing Leviathan: The Politics of Administrative Reform in Developing Countries
By Ben Ross Schneider, Blanca HerediaScholars and development practitioners agree that developing countries urgently need cohesive administrative reforms to consolidate new market economies, promote sustainable development, and improve social welfare. Reinventing Leviathan provides extensive comparative...
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Free Markets, Open Societies, Closed Borders?: Trends in International Migration and Immigration Policy in the Americas
By Max J. CastroLatin American and Caribbean immigration into the USA now accounts for half of all immigrants entering the country. In this volume, contributors analyze the tightening immigration policies in the USA...
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Latin American Democracies in the New Global Economy
By Ana MargheritisThe efforts of Latin America's democracies to grapple with the forces of the global economy, and at the same time to undertake domestic restructuring, have been a frustrating tangle of...
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Politics, Social Change, and Economic Restructuring in Latin America
By Roberto Patricio Korzeniewicz, William C. SmithWhile regime transition and market-oriented reforms in Latin America have been the subjects of considerable academic research, most scholars have paid relatively little attention to the social impacts of economic...
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Corruption and Political Reform in Brazil: The Impact of Collor's Impeachment
By Keith S. Rosenn, Richard DownesContains updated papers originally presented at a February 1993 conference held in Miami, Florida, examining Brazil's ongoing political development and the interaction between corruption and political reform in Latin America's...
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Chile, Pinochet, and the Caravan of Death
By Patricia VerdugoVerdugo is a journalist whose father was tortured to death by the Pinochet regime. This is her account of the executions without trial of 75 political prisoners in five Chilean...