Around the world, familiar ideological conflicts over the market are becoming increasingly
territorialized in the form of policy conflicts between national and subnational governments …

Informal workers make up over two billion workers or about 50% of the global workforce.
Surprisingly, scholars know little about informal workers' political or civil society participation …

The concept of alternative development (AD) in international drug control has evolved over
the past four decades, with several major milestones between the two United Nations …

High commodity prices have led to the proliferation of informal gold mining in the Andes.
Despite their limited financial capacity, informal gold miners have proved capable of …

This article explores the coalitional success of mass-mobilizing, reformist parties once they
achieve power. Why are some of these parties more successful than others at managing the …

Recent political changes across Latin America that challenge mainstream conceptions of
liberal democracy have led to speculation about some kind of post-liberal democracy …

“All of us are presidents” examines the promise and disappointments of direct democracy
that followed Evo Morales' election as president of Bolivia. Working with the literature on …

The purpose of this study is to quantify (a) spatiotemporal deforestation patterns, and (b) the
relationships between changes in the main land‐cover types in the Chapare region of …

Since the mid-1980s subsequent US governments have promoted a highly militarized and
prohibitionist drug control approach in Latin America. Despite this strategy the region has …

While there is wide agreement on the need to move towards fairer and more sustainable
societies, how to best achieve this is still the source of some debate. In particular, there are …