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The view from Latin America

Viviane Brachet-Marquez (COLMEX): State Formation in Latin America: A Relational Approach. Thamy Pogrebinschi (WZP): The Pragmatic Turn of Democracy in Latin America. Gabriela Tarouco (Pernambuco): Electoral Governance in Latin America and the Behavior of Oppositions. Gabriela Tarouco (UFPE): The Role of Political Parties in Electoral Governance: Delegation and the Quality of Elections in Latin America. I, the Supreme: Latin America needs term limits — but how strict should they be? Jessica Sequeira on Latin America’s other bite. A new issue of Latin American Economic Review is out. Richard M. Bird (Toronto) and Eric M. Zolt (UCLA): Fiscal Contracting in Latin America. Juan F. Gonzalez Bertomeu (ITAM): Populism and Redistribution in Latin America: Conceptualizing a Threshold of Acceptance. Armando Barrientos (BWPI) and Juan Miguel Villa (Manchester): Economic and Political Inclusion of Human Development Conditional Transfer Programmes in Latin America? Eva Paus (Mount Holyoke): Latin America and the Middle Income Trap. Liliana Rojas-Suarez and Maria Alejandra Amado (CGD): Understanding Latin America's Financial Inclusion Gap. Mauricio Bucca (Cornell): Merit and Blame in Unequal Societies: Explaining Latin Americans' Beliefs about Poverty and Wealth. Jose Henrique Bortoluci and Robert Jansen (Michigan): Toward a Postcolonial Sociology: The View from Latin America. J. Justin Castro (Arkansas State): Media in Twentieth-and Twenty-First-Century Latin America. In Latin America, the money may be in the media startups. Dennis Rodgers (Glasgow) and Adam Baird (UPEACE): Understanding Gangs in Contemporary Latin America. German Lopez on how the war on drugs perpetuates violence in Latin America. A look at how the U.S. compares to Latin America on civil rights. What is driving the advance of evangelical Protestantism in Latin America? A look at how Latin America is losing its Catholic identity. Enrique Krauze on anti-Semitism in Latin America. From nonsite, a special issue on the contemporary relationship between literature and politics in Latin America today.