... consolidation, tends to neglect 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...

...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 It...

...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...

...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...

... 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 to be a party chief here, nor have cousins, brothers-in-law...

...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 by...

...Jeffrey C. Mosher Conceptualizations of nineteenth-century Brazilian political organization have long emphasized informal structures, such as kinship and patronage networks, over formal political institutions. Political parties, for example, have often been perceived as façades for personalistic...

... opportunity for political mobilization. More 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...

...Timothy J. Power Building Democratic Institutions: Party Systems in Latin America . Edited by Mainwaring Scott and Scully Timothy R. . Stanford : Stanford University Press , 1995 . Graphs. Tables. Figures. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xix , 578 pp. Cloth. $60.00...

.... This collection of 11 essays focuses on the Fourth Congress of Cuba’s Communist Party, held in 1991, which was expected to approve significant measures toward economic and political liberalization but which introduced only minor changes. Ten experts on Cuba (mostly economists) are led by Jorge Pérez...

...Gary Prevost Sandinistas: The Party and the Revolution . By Gilbert Dennis . Cambridge, MA : Basil Blackwell , 1990 . Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index. xiv , 238 pp. Cloth . $27.95 . Copyright 1992 by Duke University Press 1992 Dennis Gilbert has written an excellent...

...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...

...Thomas E. Skidmore The Workers’ Party and Democratization in Brazil . By Keck Margaret E. . New Haven : Yale University Press , 1992 . Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index . xv , 315 pp. Cloth . $35.00 . Copyright 1993 by Duke University Press 1993 Since its founding in...

...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...

...John D. Martz Leader and Party in Latin America . By Duff Ernest A. . Boulder : Westview Press , 1985 . Notes. Tables. Figures. Bibliography. Index . Pp. ix , 177 . Paper. $15.95 . Copyright 1986 by Duke University Press 1986 Political science as a discipline is...

...Charles D. Ameringer * This article is based primarily upon the archive of Dr. Manuel Antonio de Varona Loredo, former senator and prime minister of Cuba, and president of the Cuban Revolutionary party—Auténtico (PRC[A]) during the period treated herein, March 1952 to September 1957. The...

...Frederick M. Nunn Party Competition in Argentina and Chile: Political Recruitment and Public Policy, 1890–1930 . By Remmer Karen L. . Lincoln : University of Nebraska Press , 1984 . Tables. Notes. Bibliography. Index . Pp. x , 296 . Cloth. $19.95 . Copyright 1985 by Duke...

...Roderic A. Camp Scholars should not expect a major analytical work on PRI, but rather an introduction to the subject. The tone is descriptive, not speculative. The value of Story’s brief book is that it brings together much recent literature on trends affecting the party’s performance and...

... urban working class in the nearby cities of Torreón and Gómez Palacio. Both the Mexican Communist party (PCM) and the newly founded Confederation of Mexican Workers (CTM) played a crucial role in cementing the worker-peasant alliance which was predicated on the need to transcend capitalist social and...