Berkeley ; London : University of California Press, c2003.

xiv, 362 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Struggles for justice in Latin America / Susan Eva Eckstein and Timothy P. Wickham-Crowley -- Social inequality, civil society, and the limits of citizenship in Latin America / Philip Oxhorn -- An exception to Chilean exceptionalism? The historical role of Chile's judiciary / Lisa Hilbink -- Presidential crises and democratic accountability in Latin America, 1990-1999 / Aníbal Pérez-Liñán -- The vicious cycle of inequality in Latin America / Terry Lynn Karl -- Perpetrators' confessions : truth, reconciliation, and justice in Argentina / Leigh A. Payne -- Colombia : does injustice cause violence? / Marc W. Chernick -- Progressive pragmatism as a governance model : an in-depth look at Porto Alegre, Brazil, 1989-2000 / Sybil Delaine Rhodes -- Citizen responses to conflict and political crisis in Peru : informal politics in Ayacucho / David Scott Palmer -- Social justice and the new indigenous politics : an analysis of Guatemala, the Central Andes, and Chiapas / John A. Peeler -- The war of the peace : indigenous women's struggle for social justice in Chiapas, Mexico / June Nash -- Reflections on remembrance : voices from an Ixcán village / Beatriz Manz.

Social justice -- Latin America.

Democratization -- Latin America.

Free trade -- Social aspects -- Latin America.

Eckstein, Susan, 1942-

Wickham-Crowley, Timothy P., 1951-

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