Pia Riggirozzi - Handbook of South American Governance

The Handbook of South American Governance is a path-breaking, much-needed and innovative collection, providing up-to-date and thought-provoking analysis. It brings together first rate scholars, focusing of the different issue-areas, institutions and actors that shape South America's politics and political economy. The interpretation of governance is rightly broad, with chapters tackling, amongst other themes, history, path dependence, states and markets, political parties, business and labour, regional integration, debt and water governance. Moreover, the Handbook offers theoretical rigour as well as rich empirical detail. As such, it should be required reading not only for researchers, teachers and students of this rapidly changing region but also for comparativists interested in the complex interactions between global, national and local political economies and flows of people, ideas and goods.

Jean Grugel, Professor of Development Politics, University of York

Pa Riggirozzi and Christopher Wylde are to be commended. The Handbook of South AmericanGovernance compiles state-of-the art analyses by leading European, Latin American and US scholars who bring theoretical sophistication to bear on topics ranging from security, regional integration and economic governance, human rights, and so on, to the role of crucial actors, including the military, business lites, labour and indigenous activists, and others. Emerging challenges are also analysed, including extractivism and transnational natural resource governance, social movements and scaling up citizenship and migration flows. This volume will be obligatory reading for social scientists and practitioners interested in the future of governance in the region.

William C. Smith, Professor Emeritus, University of Miami and former Editor, Latin American Politics and Society

We have waited a long time for a book like this. Hugely useful, it is a comprehensive, incisive and ambitious enquiry into the nature of relations between state, economy and society in South America and the fascinating tensions that ensue. Unusually, the collection of essays takes a historically embedded approach from Independence onwards. This 'long view' of governance charts a sweeping vista of governance and its flows of ideas, money, and power. All the while, the authors anchor their wide-horizon analysis in the policies, practices, struggles and experiences of state and citizen in South America, demonstrating a rigorous eye for revealing detail. This excellent book will undoubtedly find its now-essential slot on academic bookshelves and course reading lists for all Latin Americanists.

Lucy Taylor, Senior Lecturer, Aberystwyth University

This book makes a significant contribution to the understanding of the role of actors and institutions in addressing questions of development, social justice and democracy in Latin America. The editors provide a rigorous conceptual lens for the analysis of governance practices and this, together with the range of issues covered, makes it a major reference book for anyone interested in understanding the main social, political and economic challenges facing the region in the 21st Century.

Francisco Panizza, Professor in Latin American and Comparative Politics, Department of Government, The London School of Economics and Political Science

Governance in South America is signified by strategies pursued by state and non-state actors directed to enhancing (some aspect of) their capabilities and powers of agency. It is about the spaces and the practices available, demanded or created to make politics happen. This framework lends explanatory power to understand how governance has been defined and practiced in South America.

Pa Riggirozzi and ChristopherWylde bring together leading experts to explore what demands and dilemmas have shaped understanding and practice of governance in South America in and across the region. The Handbook suggests that governance dilemmas of inequitable and unfulfilled political economic governance in South America have been constant historical features, yet addressed and negotiated in different ways. Building from an introduction to key issues defining governance in South America, this Handbook proceeds to examine institutions, actors and practices in governance focusing on three core processes: evolution of socio-economic and political justice claims as central to the demands of governance; governance frameworks foregrounding particular issues and often privileging particular forms of political practice; and iterative and cumulative processes leading to new demands of governance addressing recognition and identity politics.

This Handbook will be a key reference for those concerned with the study of South America, South American political economy, regional governance, and the politics of development.

Pa Riggirozzi is Associate Professor at the University of Southampton, United Kingdom. Her research focuses on the political economy of development and regionalism in Latin America. Her work has been published in New Political Economy, Development and Change, International Affairs, Review of International Studies, and Economy and Society. Pa is currently engaged in a collaborative ESRC-funded project that explores regional integration processes and poverty reduction through health in the South.

Christopher Wylde is Associate Professor at Richmond, the American International University in London, United Kingdom, and Visiting Research Fellow at the Institute of Latin American Studies (ILAS), School of Advanced Study (SAS), University of London. He has published numerous articles on post-neoliberalism, as well as three books: Latin America after Neoliberalism (2012), Argentina Since the 2001 Crisis (2014, co-edited with Cara Levey and Daniel Ozarow), and Emerging Markets and the State (2017).

Handbook of South American Governance

Edited by Pa Riggirozzi and Christopher Wylde

First published 2018

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