{"title":"Too Legit to Quit? Analyzing the Effect of No-Confidence Motions on Cabinet Members’ Instability in Presidential Systems: The Cases of Colombia and Peru","authors":"Jhon Kelly Bonilla-Aranzales","doi":"10.1017/lap.2023.1","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/lap.2023.1","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT How does the execution of horizontal accountability mechanisms affect cabinet members’ instability? This article analyzes distinct features of no-confidence motions (NCMs) in presidential systems, using a mixed-method research design that identifies elements of legislative control mechanisms in Peruvian and Colombian polities. Although the congress in presidential systems rarely approves NCMs, high salience policy shocks trigger their proposal, resulting in the dismissal or resignation of the cabinet member in question. Those results are subtle opportunities for opposition legislators to indicate the incompetence of the incumbent government in particular policy areas. This study contributes to understanding how contextual factors affect the effectiveness of the check and balance principle in presidential systems.","PeriodicalId":46899,"journal":{"name":"Latin American Politics and Society","volume":"65 1","pages":"95 - 127"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-03-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44755823","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}
{"title":"Legislative Quotas and the Gender Gap in Campaign Finance: The Case of the 2014 and 2018 Legislative Elections in Colombia","authors":"Bart Maddens, Gertjan Muyters, Gert-Jan Put","doi":"10.1017/lap.2022.39","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/lap.2022.39","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Earlier empirical research on party list proportional representation systems shows that women spend less on campaigns than men, particularly when quotas are applied. An analysis of the candidate campaign expenses for the 2014 and 2018 Colombian Lower Chamber elections provides a novel test of this gender gap and its underlying causes. The research design leverages Colombia’s unique context of electoral institutions, with interdistrict variation in terms of quota rules, and the availability of detailed information on campaign spending and funding. The regression models show that the gender gap in campaign spending is limited to districts with quota rules and disappears among incumbents and candidates listed first on the ballot. As for funding, women candidates are most disadvantaged with regard to personal funds and corporate donations but attract as many individual donations as men do.","PeriodicalId":46899,"journal":{"name":"Latin American Politics and Society","volume":"65 1","pages":"83 - 109"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-03-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43997180","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}
{"title":"LAP volume 65 issue 1 Cover and Back matter","authors":"","doi":"10.1017/lap.2022.56","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/lap.2022.56","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46899,"journal":{"name":"Latin American Politics and Society","volume":"65 1","pages":"b1 - b3"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43367940","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}
{"title":"Rage in the Machine: Activation of Racist Content in Social Media","authors":"Sebastián Vallejo Vera","doi":"10.1017/lap.2022.25","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/lap.2022.25","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Racism in social media is ubiquitous, persisting online in ways unique to the internet while also reverberating from the world offline. When will racist frames activate in social media networks? This article argues that social media users engage with racist content when they perceive a threat to the in-group status, selecting frames that serve as markers to separate the in-group identity from the out-group identity. Racialized frames serve as these markers, and the perceived threats to the in-group status make racist content cognitively congruent. Evidence of this behavior is provided by examining Twitter activity during the indígena protests in Ecuador in October 2019. A novel, multistep machine-learning process detects racist tweets, and an interrupted time series analysis shows how events that can be perceived as threats to the in-group activate racist content in some social media communities.","PeriodicalId":46899,"journal":{"name":"Latin American Politics and Society","volume":"65 1","pages":"74 - 100"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"46012795","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}
{"title":"Willingness: Human Rights Crises and State Response in Mexico","authors":"Alejandro Anaya-Muñoz, Janice K. Gallagher","doi":"10.1017/lap.2022.48","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/lap.2022.48","url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT States targeted by human rights criticism usually do something—whether ratifying treaties, passing laws, establishing institutions, prosecuting perpetrators, or shifting discourse. But how do we know how coordinated, comprehensive, and effective these actions are? This article proposes five questions to assess how willing a state is to take the steps necessary to meaningfully respond to human rights crises. It applies this approach to two human rights crises in Mexico: femicides and violence against women, and disappearances. This approach effectively differentiates state responses that initially appear similar, demonstrating that the Mexican government has been more willing to address violence against women and femicides than disappearances. An explanation for this difference in outcomes points to a combination of factors related to the underlying preferences of the government involved, the characteristics of victims, and the specific human right being violated.","PeriodicalId":46899,"journal":{"name":"Latin American Politics and Society","volume":"65 1","pages":"101 - 125"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49381494","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}
{"title":"Caitlin Andrews-Lee, The Emergence and Revival of Charismatic Movements: Argentine Peronism and Venezuelan Chavismo. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Tables, figures, bibliography, index, 251 pp; hardcover $99.99, ebook. - Julio F. Carrión, A Dynamic Theory of Populism in Power: The Andes in Comparative Perspective. New York: Oxford University Press, 2022. Figures, acronyms, bibliography, index, 296 pp; hardcover $74, ebook $80.","authors":"Armando Chaguaceda","doi":"10.1017/lap.2022.52","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/lap.2022.52","url":null,"abstract":"Caitlin Andrews-Lee, The Emergence and Revival of Charismatic Movements: Argentine Peronism and Venezuelan Chavismo. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Tables, figures, bibliography, index, 251 pp; hardcover $99.99, ebook. - Julio F. Carrión, A Dynamic Theory of Populism in Power: The Andes in Comparative Perspective. New York: Oxford University Press, 2022. Figures, acronyms, bibliography, index, 296 pp; hardcover 80. - Volume 65 Issue 1","PeriodicalId":46899,"journal":{"name":"Latin American Politics and Society","volume":"63 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"134977939","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}
{"title":"New Avenues in the Study of Crime, Violence, and State in Latin America","authors":"Mart Trasberg","doi":"10.1017/lap.2022.61","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/lap.2022.61","url":null,"abstract":"Marcelo Bergman and Gustavo Fondevila, Prisons and Crime in Latin America. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2021. Figures, tables, appendix, notes, bibliography, index, 261 pp.; hardcover $99.99, paperback $34.99, ebook $28. James H. Creechan, Drug Wars and Covert Netherworlds: The Transformations of Mexico’s Narco Cartels. Tucson: University of Arizona Press, 2021. Figures, abbreviations, notes, bibliography, index, 392 pp; hardcover $100, paperback $35, ebook $35. YanildaMaría González, Authoritarian Police in Democracy: Contested Security in Latin America. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Figures, tables, notes, bibliography, index, 250 pp.; paperback $34.99, hardcover $99.99, ebook $28. EduardoMoncada, Resisting Extortion: Victims, Criminals, and States in Latin America. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2022. Maps, figures, tables, abbreviations, appendix, notes, bibliography, index, 300 pp; paperback $34.99, hardcover $99.99, ebook $28.00. Guillermo Trejo and Sandra Ley, Votes, Drugs, and Violence: The Political Logic of Criminal Wars in Mexico. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2020. Maps, figures, tables, acronyms, appendix, notes, bibliography, index, 422 pp; paperback $34.99, hardcover $105.00, ebook $28.00.","PeriodicalId":46899,"journal":{"name":"Latin American Politics and Society","volume":"65 1","pages":"151 - 160"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48628065","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}
{"title":"LAP volume 65 issue 1 Cover and Front matter","authors":"","doi":"10.1017/lap.2022.55","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/lap.2022.55","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46899,"journal":{"name":"Latin American Politics and Society","volume":"65 1","pages":"f1 - f4"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-02-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43582741","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}
{"title":"The Proscription Paradox: Banning Parties Based on Threshold Requirements and Electoral Volatility in Latin America","authors":"Karel Kouba","doi":"10.1017/lap.2022.37","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/lap.2022.37","url":null,"abstract":"\u0000 Banning political parties is an extreme institutional measure that democracies tend to use sparingly. Nevertheless, Latin American countries frequently proscribe their parties through rules that activate dissolution for not reaching a certain number of votes or seats in an election. Such rules are expected to stabilize and simplify party systems. However, a competing theory suggests that such rules instead promote electoral volatility by injecting political uncertainty into the party system through cyclical refoundation of extinct parties and the mechanical effects of parties’ exits. Attempting to resolve this paradox, this analysis tests the effect of dissolution thresholds on electoral volatility in all Latin American democratic elections since 1980. Party bans based on dissolution thresholds are found to promote electoral volatility, which bears implications for democratic governance.","PeriodicalId":46899,"journal":{"name":"Latin American Politics and Society","volume":"65 1","pages":"31 - 54"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-01-30","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44122916","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}
{"title":"Viviana Beatriz Macmanus , Disruptive Archives: Feminist Memories of Resistance in Latin America’s Dirty Wars. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 2020. Photographs, figures, bibliography, index, 218 pp.; hardcover $110, paperback $26; ebook $19.95, pdf $19.95","authors":"Natália Maria Félix de Souza","doi":"10.1017/lap.2022.62","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/lap.2022.62","url":null,"abstract":"Arenas de Mesa, Alberto. 2019. Los sistemas de pensiones en la encrucijada: desafíos para la sostenibilidad en América Latina. Santiago: Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL). Barr, Nicholas, and Peter Diamond. 2010. Pension Reform: A Short Guide. Oxford: Oxford University Press. Cruz-Martínez, Gibrán, Luis Vargas Faulbaum, and Ricardo Velázquez Leyer. 2021. Social Security and Pension Systems: The Deep Stratification of Latin American Societies. In Latin American Social Policy Developments in the Twenty-First Century, ed. Natália Sátyro, Eloísa del Pino, and Carmen Midaglia. New York: Palgrave Macmillan. 163–94. Mesa-Lago, Carmelo. 1978. Social Security in Latin America: Pressure Groups, Stratification, and Inequality. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press. ——. 1985. El desarrollo de la seguridad social en América Latina. Santiago de Chile: Comisión Económica para América Latina y el Caribe (CEPAL). ——. 2008. Reassembling Social Security: A Survey of Pensions and Health Care Reforms in Latin America. Oxford: Oxford University Press.","PeriodicalId":46899,"journal":{"name":"Latin American Politics and Society","volume":"65 1","pages":"181 - 185"},"PeriodicalIF":1.9,"publicationDate":"2023-01-12","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45223370","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}