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Citizenship, Race, and Criminalization: The Proceso Mohoza, 1899-1905

Mon, 17 Sep 2007 00:00:00 +0000

Citizenship, Race, and Criminalization: The Proceso Mohoza, 1899-1905

CILAS Summer 2007 Newsletter

Mon, 20 Aug 2007 00:00:00 +0000

CILAS Summer 2007 Newsletter

Engineering Quotas in Latin America

Tue, 22 Aug 2006 00:00:00 +0000

Proponents of electoral quota laws suggest that equitable representation will deepen democratization and transform policy outcomes. Eleven Latin American countries have gender quotas, but their efficacy varies: women’s parliamentary representation ranges from 35% in Costa Rica to 6% in Honduras. Systematic, cross-national analysis reveals that institutional engineering intersects with gender disadvantages in politics. This interaction creates conditions under which quotas succeed or fail. Long-term effects include whether quotas meaningfully empower female legislators and whether greater gender representation transforms policy outcomes. This paper explores the interaction between institutions and gender, using a case study from Argentina to develop the research agenda.

CILAS Summer 2006 Newsletter

Wed, 9 Aug 2006 00:00:00 +0000

CILAS Summer 2006 Newsletter

CILAS Summer 2005 Newsletter

Tue, 19 Jul 2005 00:00:00 +0000

CILAS Summer 2005 Newsletter

Women, Ethnicity, and Medical Authority: Historical Perspectives on Reproductive Health in Latin America

Mon, 18 Oct 2004 00:00:00 +0000

This paper is the result of discussions at the 2003 Meeting of the Latin American Studies Association, in Dallas, Texas, March 27-29, 2003, where we organized and presented papers for a panel entitled “Women, Ethnicity, and Medical Authority: Reproductive and Children’s Health in Latin America since 1780.” While the papers focus on distinct regions and historical moments in Latin America, they all engage common themes. Each examines how “officials” representing various elite institutions—the Church, formal medicine, and the state—used cultural explanations of race and difference to construct new notions of “reproductive health” and “mothering” as measures of “civilization.” Moreover, these papers show how such constructions, which took place during moments of sweeping transformation in colonial and post-colonial Latin America, were used to justify a variety of forms of social discrimination, exclusion, and inclusion.

Adam Warren discusses ways in which Catholic priests...

Committing to Justice: An Analysis of Criminal Law Reforms in Chile

Thu, 29 Jul 2004 00:00:00 +0000

From 1997 to 2001, the Chilean government enacted laws to transform its criminal justice system from one using a closed and secretive inquisitorial-type process to one employing a more open and transparent adversarial process. These criminal procedure reforms significantly changed the roles of lower court judges, prosecutors and public defenders and provided defendants and victims with broader individual rights. Despite its commitment to criminal law reforms, during the implementation period of these reforms, the government remained lackluster in its commitment to a more open and transparent justice system when it related to more politicized cases. During the criminal law reform implementation process, the government was hesitant to prosecute high-level Pinochet-era officials while adamant about prosecuting individuals who criticized the judiciary. Not until the government had significantly improved the lower level criminal procedures was there a change in the way that...

Regional Integration in the Americas and the Pacific Rim: A Project Report

Tue, 22 Jun 2004 00:00:00 +0000

In 1996 the Center for Iberian and Latin American Studies (CILAS) and the Graduate School of International Relations and Pacific Studies (IR/PS) launched a two-year program on “Latin America and the Pacific Rim” at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD). Its aim is to promote understanding of the increasingly significant relationship between Asia and Latin America, especially in light of the relatively scant scholarly attention which has been devoted to this subject.

This working paper reproduces the essence of the conference discussions on "Regional Integration in the Americas and the Pacific Rim" held at UCSD on February 28-March 1, 1997 and special presentations on processes of regional integration prepared for the Visiting Fellows. The working contains three broad sections -- one on interactions between Asia and Latin America, another on comparisons between the two regions, and a third on the relationship between regionalism and globalism.

CILAS Newslettter Summer 2004

Mon, 21 Jun 2004 00:00:00 +0000

CILAS Newslettter Summer 2004

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