Politics and Social Change in Latin America

HOWARD J. WIARDA is Professor of Political Science and the Leonard J. Horwitz Professor of Iberian and Latin American Studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and Senior Associate at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington. He has published extensively on Iberian and Latin American issues.MARGARET MACLEISH MOTT is Professor of Humanities and Social Sciences at Marlboro College in Vermont.

• PrefaceIntroduction: Interpreting Latin America's Politics on It's Own Terms by Howard J. Wiarda and Margaret Macheish MottThe Political Culture FrameworkPatterns of Continuity in Latin American Society: Political and Historical Perspectives by Roland H. EbelTwo Cultures and Political Behavior in Latin America by Glen Caudill DealyHistorical FactorsThe Latin American Tradition by Roland H. Ebel and Raymond TarasSpanish American Past: Enemy of Change by Donald E. WorcesterScience, Technology, and Hispanic America by Irving A. LeonardClaims of Political Tradition by Richard M. MorseHistorical Determinants of the Latin American State: The Tradition of Bureaucratic-Patrimonialism, Corporatism, Centralism, and Authoritarianism by Howard J. WiardaPolitics and Social ChangeThe Tradition of Higher Laws in Latin America by Margaret MacLeish MottLatin America and Democracy by Octavio PazFrom El Cid to El Hugo: The Hero and the Mystique of Liberation in Latin America by Dolores Moyano MartinLatin America's Magical Liberalism by Tina RosenbergThe News About Religion in Latin America by Daniel LevineForeign Policy ImplicationsOn Democracy and Democratization by Peter H. SmithConsensus Found, Consensus Lost: Disjunctures in U.S. Policy Toward Latin America in the New Millennium by Howard J. WiardaConclusionSuggested ReadingsIndexAbout the Contributors