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Political Movements and Violence in Central Americaand From Movements to Parties in Latin America:The Evolution of Ethnic Politics

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  14 May 2007

Pablo Andrade
Pablo Andrade
Affiliation:
Universidad Andina Simón Bolívar
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Political Movements and Violence in Central America.By Charles D. Brockett. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005.404p. $75.00 cloth, $29.99 paper.

From Movements to Parties in Latin America: The Evolution ofEthnic Politics. By Donna Lee Van Cott. New York:Cambridge University Press, 2005. 300p. $75.00.

The two books here reviewed make remarkable contributions to ourunderstanding of contemporary Latin American politics. Despite theirdistinct individual merits and methodological, analytical, andtheoretical differences, they are worth reading together, for theyboth address the theme of political contention in Latin America, atopic of enduring importance.

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BOOK REVIEWS: COMPARATIVE POLITICS
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Perspectives on Politics , Volume 5 , Issue 2 , June 2007 , pp. 380 - 382
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© 2007 American Political Science Association

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