... the dialectic with socioeconomic conditions. In other words, they shed little light on the specificity of the linkages of that context to the political struggles and ideology of the era. 2 Party origins and organization provide telling ways to understand such matters. The Conservative party has...

...Jorell Meléndez-Badillo Abstract This article uses the case of Bolívar Ochart, a midlevel member of the Socialist Party of Puerto Rico, to explore the ways that labor leaders navigated the Puerto Rican polity after the 1898 US occupation of the archipelago. The Socialist Party radically challenged...

...Brian McBeth Party-System Collapse: The Roots of Crisis in Peru and Venezuela . By Seawright Jason . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press , 2012 . Figures. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xi, 293 pp. Cloth , $60.00 . Copyright © 2017 by Duke University Press 2017...

... than 100,000 votes were cast—11 percent of the island’s total population and 71 percent of all men age 25 and above who had been included in an electoral census. The Liberal party obtained an overwhelming majority, with 81 percent of the votes cast. 1 By introducing the dynamics of mass politics...

... and local chief who never should have been a magistrate in this land. . . . May God (or the government) keep him there for many years if not always, to satisfy the president’s vanity and the tranquility of the Conservative party in these parts, and send us a district magistrate who has neither pretensions...

...David Rock Between Revolution and the Ballot Box: The Origins of the Argentine Radical Party in the 1890s . By Alonso Paula . Cambridge : Cambridge University Press , 2000 . Tables. Figures. Appendixes. Bibliography. Index . xiii , 242 pp. Cloth , $52.95 . Copyright 2001...

...Roderic Ai Camp Palace Politics: How the Ruling Party Brought Crisis to Mexico . By Schlefer Jonathan . Austin : University of Texas Press , 2008 . Photographs. Illustrations. Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xi , 297 pp. Cloth , $60.00 . Paper , $24.95 . Copyright...

...John W. F. Dulles The Brazilian Communist Party: Conflict and Integration, 1922-1972 . By Chilcote Ronald H. . New York , 1974 . Oxford University Press . Tables. Appendices. Bibliography. Indices . Pp. xv , 361 . Cloth. $15.00 . Copyright 1975 by Duke University Press 1975...

...Steve Stein Modernization, Dislocation, and Aprismo: Origins of the Peruvian Aprista Party, 1870-1932 . By Klarén Peter F. . Austin , 1973 . Published for the Institute of Latin American Studies by the University of Texas Press . Latin American Monographs, 32 . Maps. Tables...

...Timothy J. Henderson Maximino Ávila Camacho and the One-Party State: The Taming of Caudillismo and Caciquismo in Post-Revolutionary Mexico . By Quintana Alejandro . Lanham, MD : Rowman and Littlefield , 2010 . Notes. Glossary. Bibliography. Index . xviii, 155 pp. Cloth...

... above. In Peru, anti-Communism proved a key idiom through which the Alianza Popular Revolucionaria Americana (APRA) sought to gain control over organized labor and to challenge the Peruvian Communist Party’s claims to represent and lead workers. APRA’s anti-Communism grew out of Víctor Haya de la...

.... He pardoned all past injustices of his opponents and stated that the party “does not desire to take riches from those that have them, but to create riches for those who do not.” Villanueva notes that the speech was received coldly by party faithfuls, but “was very well received by the great...

...Carmelo Mesa-Lago Cuba at a Crossroads: Politics and Economics After the Fourth Party Congress . Edited by Pérez-López Jorge F. . Gainesville : University Press of Florida , 1994 . Illustration. Tables. Notes. Bibliographies. Index. xvii, 282 pp. Cloth . $39.95 . Copyright 1995...

...Roderic A. Camp The Mexican Ruling Party: Stability and Authority . By Story Dale . New York : Praeger , 1986 . Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. 160 . Cloth. $32.95 . Copyright 1987 by Duke University Press 1987 With the tremendous interest in Mexico since...

...Jeffrey Klaiber, S.J. Between God and the Party: Religion and Politics in Revolutionary Cuba . By Kirk John M. . Tampa : University of South Florida Press , 1989 . Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. xxi , 231 . Paper . $15.00 Copyright 1990 by Duke University Press...

..., this article looks principally at one of several political parties and groups that made up the nonviolent opposition, the Cuban Revolutionary or Auténtico party, PRC(A). This narrow focus limits the conclusions that may be drawn; but because of the fortuitous availability of archival material that chronicles...

...Thomas W. Walker Though it only covers events up to 1977, Webre’s book is very useful in understanding the party and candidate that the United States helped resurrect during this later ill-fated attempt to engineer a “moderate” alternative to revolution. After carefully summarizing the evolution...

...Robert H. Dix The Christian Democratic Party in Chile. A Study of Political Organization and Activity with Primary Emphasis on the Local Level . By Wayland-Smith Giles . Cuernavaca, México , 1969 . Centro Intercultural de Documentación . Sondeos, 39 . Figures. Tables. Graphs...

... Another Laguna Communist, Arturo Orona (leader of the party in the region from 1940 until the early 1970s), had worked as a porter in Torreón for a while before moving into rural work. 39 Copyright 1987 by Duke University Press 1987 From the middle of 1935 until the autumn of 1936...

...Iván Jaksić Rethinking the Center: Party Politics in Nineteenth- and Twentieth-Century Chile . By Scully Timothy R. . Stanford : Stanford University Press , 1992 . Tables. Graphs. Notes. Bibliography. Index . 287 pp. Cloth . $42.50 . Copyright 1993 by Duke University Press...