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Synopsis
There is a long tradition of North Americans looking down on those in Latin America, assuming that there is little to learn from their experiences. This brief and accessible book showcases the way Latin American societies have approached major social, cultural, and political-economic issues with innovative policy solutions. It offers a wonderful introduction to the region while illustrating what countries in the North can learn from the South. Even as Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, and Cuba have succeeded in areas that are unmatched in the so-called developed world, their policy innovations are rarely found in books. From voting machines to pension reform, health to energy, and gender and race issues to soccer, the "lessons" addressed here are broad in scope, and inspiring in both their successes and failures.
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Kirk Bowman is Professor of International Studies and Director of Undergraduate programs at Georgia Tech University. His research foci include comparative development, democracy, the politics of tourism, the politics of urban innovation, and Latin America. He is author of more than 20 book chapters and articles, as well as Militarization, Democracy, and Development: The Perils of Praetorianism in Latin America (2002), and the new book Peddling Paradise: The Politics of Touris Felipe Arocena is a Professor of Sociology at the University of the Republic, Uruguay. His research in the last five years has mainly focused on the challenges of cultural diversity and multiculturalism in the 21st century. He has published eight books (two in the United States) as well as nearly one hundred and fifty articles in journals, newspapers, and readers in Europe, the United States, and Latin America.
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Lessons from Latin America : Innovations in Politics, Culture, Development
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University of Toronto Press, 2014
ISBN 10: 1442609478
ISBN 13: 9781442609471
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