Kurt Weyland: 4 books
Bounded Rationality and Policy Diffusion
Social Sector Reform in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2009
Why do very different countries often emulate the same policy model? Two years after Ronald Reagan's income-tax simplification of 1986, Brazil adopted a similar reform even though it threatened to exacerbate income disparity and jeopardize state revenues. And Chile's pension privatization of the early...
Populism in Latin America
Second Edition
Language: English
Release Date: July 31, 2012
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This updated edition of Populism in Latin America discusses new developments in populism as a political phenomenon and the emergence of new populist political figures in Mexico, Argentina, and Venezuela in particular.
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Making Waves
Democratic Contention in Europe and Latin America since the Revolutions of 1848
Language: English
Release Date: April 7, 2014
This study investigates the three main waves of political regime contention in Europe and Latin America. Surprisingly, protest against authoritarian rule spread across countries more quickly in the nineteenth century, yet achieved greater success in bringing democracy in the twentieth. To explain...
Revolution and Reaction
The Diffusion of Authoritarianism in Latin America
Language: English
Release Date: March 28, 2019
Why did so many Latin American leftists believe they could replicate the Cuban Revolution in their own countries, and why did so many rightists fear the spread of Communism? Cognitive-psychological insights about people's distorted inferences and skewed interest calculations explain why the left held...