Handbook of Central American Governance

Prologue: Modernising Backwardness Edelberto Torres-Rivas; Chapter 1 Introduction: Central America’s Triple Transition and the Persistent Power of Elites Salvador Martí i Puig and Diego Sánchez-Ancochea; Part I: Development, Distribution and Redistribution  Chapter 2 The Great Transformation in Central America: Transnational Accumulation and the Evolution of Capital Aaron Schneider; Chapter 3 Central American Migration, Remittances and Transnational Development Ninna Nyberg Sørensen; Chapter 4 Natural Disasters, Climate Change and Environmental Challenges in Central America Alfredo Stein; Chapter 5 The Income Distribution in Central America Juan Diego Trejos and Timothy Gindling; Chapter 6 Social Policy in Central America: Stubborn Legacies, Positive yet Limited Change Juliana Martínez Franzoni; Part II: Democratization and the State  Chapter 7 Advancing the Study of Stateness in Central America: Methodology and Some Illustrative Findings Jorge Vargas Cullel; Chapter 8 Authoritarian and Democratic Regimes in Central America Fabrice Lehoucq; Chapter 9 Institutional Legitimacy in Central America: 2004-10 John Booth and Mitchell Seligson; Chapter 10 Central America (High) Courts Elema Martínez Barahona; Chapter 11 The Central American Military: Building Democratic Control in Post-Conflict Societies Orlando J. Pérez and Rafael Martínez; Chapter 12 Drugs Trafficking and Governance in Central America Otto Argueta; Part III: Key Political and Social Actors  Chapter 13 Political Parties: the Right Barry Cannon; Chapter 14 Political Parties: the Left Salvador Martí i Puig; Chapter 15 The Transformation of Central American Economic Elites: from Local Tycoons to Transnational Business Groups Benedicte Bull and Yuri Kasahara; Chapter 16 Social Movements in Central America Rose J. Spalding; Chapter 17 Indigenous and Afro-Descendant Social Movements in Central America Miguel González, Vivian Jiménez and Victor del Cid; Part IV: International Relations  Chapter 18 Central America’s Relations with the USA Hector Perla, Salvador Martí i Puig and Dany Burridge; Chapter 19 Central America’s Relations with Latin America Pedro Caldentey and Francisco Rojas; Chapter 20 Regional Integration in Central America Fernando Rueda-Junquera; Chapter 21 The Role of International Financial Institutions in Central America Sarah Hunt; Part V: Country Experiences  Chapter 22 Costa Rica Alberto Cortés, Gerardo Hernández and Diego Sánchez-Ancochea; Chapter 23 El Salvador Mo Hume; Chapter 24 Guatemala Pablo González; Chapter 25 Honduras Michelle Taylor; Chapter 26 Nicaragua David Close

Biography

Diego Sánchez-Ancochea is University Lecturer in the Political Economy of Latin America at the University of Oxford, and Governing Body Fellow at St Antony’s College, Oxford, United Kingdom.
Salvador Martí i Puig is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of Salamanca, Spain, and a member of the think-tank Fundació CIDOB-Barcelona.