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“You have to hug, nothing is going to happen”: Partisan Retrospection, the COVID-19 Pandemic, and the Politics of Death in Mexico “你必须拥抱，什么都不会发生”：党派回顾，COVID-19大流行和墨西哥的死亡政治

IF 1.9 2区社会学

Latin American Politics and Society Pub Date : 2026-02-20 DOI: 10.1017/lap.2025.10044

Rodrigo Castro Cornejo

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Protecting Children from Poverty in Unequal Democracies: The Determinants of Public Opinion on Child Cash Transfers in Latin America 在不平等的民主国家保护儿童免于贫困：拉丁美洲儿童现金转移的公众舆论决定因素

IF 1.9 2区社会学

Latin American Politics and Society Pub Date : 2026-02-18 DOI: 10.1017/lap.2026.10046

Merike Blofield, Fabián A. Borges, Juliana Martínez Franzoni

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Partisan Messages and Support for Democratic Institutions: Evidence from Survey Experiments in Brazil, Chile, and Colombia 党派信息和对民主制度的支持：来自巴西、智利和哥伦比亚调查实验的证据

IF 1.9 2区社会学

Latin American Politics and Society Pub Date : 2026-02-16 DOI: 10.1017/lap.2026.10045

Flávia Batista da Silva, Carolina F T Batista, Ernesto Calvo

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“Trust in Government” in Hot Water: Obstacles to Effective Disaster Relief and Climate Adaptation Policy in Guatemala 热水中的“信任政府”：危地马拉有效救灾和气候适应政策的障碍

IF 1.9 2区社会学

Latin American Politics and Society Pub Date : 2026-02-10 DOI: 10.1017/lap.2025.10040

Todd Eisenstadt, Tofigh Maboudi, Ludovico Feoli, Felipe Antonio Girón Palacios, Moises Arce

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Causes and Consequences of Ideological Persistence: The Case of Chile 意识形态坚持的原因和后果：以智利为例

IF 1.9 2区社会学

Latin American Politics and Society Pub Date : 2025-12-29 DOI: 10.1017/lap.2025.10028

Pablo Argote, Giancarlo Visconti

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Beyond Rejection: Ideological Belonging in a Weak-Party System 超越拒绝：弱党制度中的意识形态归属

IF 1.9 2区社会学

Latin American Politics and Society Pub Date : 2025-12-29 DOI: 10.1017/lap.2025.10030

Pablo Argote, Giancarlo Visconti

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The Chilean (Anti-) Voter 智利（反）选民

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Latin American Politics and Society Pub Date : 2025-12-29 DOI: 10.1017/lap.2025.10032

Carlos Meléndez

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Legislative Effectiveness and Informal Institutions: Evidence from Latin America 立法效力与非正式制度：来自拉丁美洲的证据

IF 1.9 2区社会学

Latin American Politics and Society Pub Date : 2025-12-29 DOI: 10.1017/lap.2025.10039

Beatriz Rey

{"title":"Legislative Effectiveness and Informal Institutions: Evidence from Latin America","authors":"Beatriz Rey","doi":"10.1017/lap.2025.10039","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/lap.2025.10039","url":null,"abstract":"Why are some legislators more effective than others in fragmented presidential systems? I argue that in Brazil’s fractionalized party system, legislative member organizations (LMOs) supply policy and political information that parties often lack, enabling lawmakers to advance bills. I test this claim using novel legislative effectiveness scores (LESs) for sponsors and rapporteurs in Brazil’s lower chamber. Quantitative results show that LMO affiliation is associated with higher effectiveness, but only in highly structured organizations. Public security LMOs boost both sponsorship and rapporteurship, while agribusiness LMOs increase rapporteurship effectiveness. Weakly organized LMOs show null effects. Party affiliation matters, but parties do not consistently provide information and coordination. Qualitative data identify two mechanisms by which strong LMOs operate: placing aligned members in key positions and leveraging expertise to shape agendas and voting cues. These findings recast effectiveness in Brazil as a function of cross-party informational networks rather than parties alone and identify scope conditions under which LMOs matter in other multiparty presidential democracies.","PeriodicalId":46899,"journal":{"name":"Latin American Politics and Society","volume":"22 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2025-12-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"145847488","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":2,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Improvising Protection: Frontline Workers’ Coping Mechanisms When Assisting Women Displaced by Organized Crime 临时保护：一线工作者在帮助因有组织犯罪而流离失所妇女时的应对机制

IF 1.9 2区社会学

Latin American Politics and Society Pub Date : 2025-12-18 DOI: 10.1017/lap.2025.10033

María del Pilar Fuerte-Celis, Daniel Zizumbo-Colunga

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Do Women Legislators Represent Disadvantaged Groups More Actively? Evidence from Chile 女性立法委员是否更积极地代表弱势群体？来自智利的证据

IF 1.9 2区社会学

Latin American Politics and Society Pub Date : 2025-11-03 DOI: 10.1017/lap.2025.10034

Andrés Dockendorff, Ricardo Gamboa, Marcel Aubry

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