Reducing poverty levels, improving the distribution of income and improving people’s capabilities are three key challenges of economic development. Many middle-income countries (MICs) have the state capacity and the ...

In Confronting Dystopia, a distinguished group of scholars analyze the implications of the ongoing technological revolution for jobs, working conditions, and income. Focusing on the economic and political implications of ...

Did recent social policy expansion entail positive changes for women and for gender equality in Latin America? This chapter argues that, overall, this expansion brought good news for women’s visibility as subjects of policy ...

The events and processes that have taken place in the last decade in South America have given way to one of the most interesting regional phenomena under a global crisis and within a changing world order. From the traditional ...

Costa Rica se ha caracterizado como un sistema de partidos políticos tradicionalmente bipolar y estable, que luego se consolidó en un bipartidismo institucionalizado. Esto fue posible gracias al acuerdo entre las élites y ...

Central America constitutes a fascinating case study of the challenges, opportunities and characteristics of the process of transformation in today’s global economy. Comprised of a politically diverse range of societies, ...

En este capítulo, partimos del carácter multidimensional de la cultura política y, como tal, nos apoyamos en la línea de análisis que plantean los cientí cos sociales José Ramón Montero, Richard Gunther y Mariano Torcal ...