Politics Latin America

Gavin O'Toole has taught Latin American politics and democratic theory at Queen Mary, University of London and was a Visiting Postdoctoral Fellow at London's Institute for the Study of the Americas. He is also a publisher and journalist and is the author of The Reinvention of Mexico (forthcoming) and the co-editor of Che in Verse (2007).

Introduction Part I An introduction to Latin American history 1. From Independence to the 1930s 2. From the 1930s to the 1980s Part II Institutions, processes and actors 3. Democratization 4. Challenges facing democracy 5. The presidency 6. Legislatures, parties, the judiciary and public administration 7. Established political actors 8. Civil society and emergent political actors Part III International relations 9. Inter-state relations within Latin America 10. The US and Latin America 11. Latin America, Europe and Asia Part IV Political ideas 12. Left and Right 13. Identities: Nationalism, Race and Feminism Part V Economic ideas 14. Structuralism and dependency 15. Neoliberalism 16. Redistributive models