Special Section: Political Economy and the Future of Latin American Politics

Editor's Introduction, William C Smith 1

Latin American Political Economy: Making Sense of a New Reality, Juan Pablo Luna, Maria Victoria Murillo, and Andrew Schrank 3

Comment on "Latin American Political Economy: Making Sense of a New Reality", Evelyne Huber and John D. Stephens 11

The Latin American Way, Fernando Limongi 14

Substance and Methods of a Grounded Political Economy ,Kenneth M. Roberts 17

Studying Political Economy in Latin America: Gaps and Methods, Ben Ross Schneider 20

Theory Production : Made In or For Latin America? Tulia G. Falleti 23

Comment on "Latin American Political Economy", Alfred P. Montero 27

Research

A Two-Level Theory of Presidential Instability, Anibal Perez Linan 34

Conditional Cash Transfers and the Effect on Recent Murder Rates in Brazil and Mexico, Justin Earl Lance 55

Democratization Through Contention? Regional and Local Governance Conflict in Peru, Gary Bland and Luis A. Chirinos 73

Supporting the Iron Fist: Crime News, Public Opinion and Authoritarian Crime Control in Guatemala, Krystin Krause 98

Democracy and Social Welfare in Uruguay and Paraguay, Davide Grassi 120

Policy Issues

The Organization of the Executive Branch in Latin America: What We Know and What We Need to Know, Alejandro Bonvecchi and Carlos Scartascini 144

Critical Debates

Explaining the Rise of Ethnic Politics in Contemporary Latin America, Cristobal Rovira Kaltwasser 166

Book Reviews

Magda Hinojosa, Selecting Women, Electing Women: Political Representation and Candidate Selection in Latin America 175

Katherine Hite and Mark Ungar, eds., Sustaining Human Rights in the 21th: Strategies from Latin America 178

Diana Kapiszewski, High Courts and Economic Governance in Argentina and Brazil 180

Patricia Richards, Race and the Chilean Miracle: Neoliberaism, Democracy and Indigenous Rights 183

Emma Cervone, Long Live Atahualpa: Indegenous POlitics, Justice and Democracy in the Northern Andes 185

Guadalupe Correa Cabrera, Democracy in "Two Mexicos": Political Institutions in Oaxaca and Nuevo Leon 188