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Recentering Informality on the Research Agenda: Grassroots Action, Political Parties, and Democratic Governance

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Out of the Shadows: Political Action and the Informal Economy in Latin America. Edited by Fernández-KellyPatricia and ShefnerJon. University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2006. Pp. 280. $75.00 cloth.
Informal Institutions and Democracy: Lessons from Latin America. Edited by HelmkeGretchen and LevitskySteven. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 2006. Pp. 351. $25.00 paper.
Patrons, Clients, and Policies: Patterns of Democratic Accountability and Political Competition. Edited by KitscheltHerbert and WilkinsonSteven J. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007. Pp. 377. $96.00 cloth.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 September 2022

Tina Hilgers
Tina Hilgers*
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McGill University
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Latin American Research Review , Volume 43 , Issue 2 , 2008 , pp. 272 - 281
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Copyright © 2008 by the University of Texas Press

References

1. See, for example, Sidney W. Mintz and Eric R. Wolf, “An Analysis of Ritual Co-Parenthood (Compadrazgo),” Southwestern Journal of Anthropology 6, no. 4 (1950): 341–368; and Carl H. Landé, “Networks and Groups in Southeast Asia: Some Observations on the Group Theory of Politics,” American Political Science Review 67, no. 1 (1973): 103–127.

2. One researcher who has consistently considered the political, social, and economic aspects of informality is Judith Adler Hellman. See “The Role of Ideology in Peasant Politics: Peasant Mobilization and Demobilization in the Laguna Region,” Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs 25, no. 1 (1983): 3–29, and Mexican Lives (New York: New Press, 1994).

3. Guillermo O'Donnell, “Another Institutionalization: Latin America and Elsewhere,” Kellogg Institute for International Studies at the University of Notre Dame Working Paper #222 (March 1996), 15.

4. Frank Dobbin, The New Economic Sociology (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 2004).

5. Illegal activities are a special category, distinct from informality, as Cross and Peña (60–61) and Centeno and Portes (27) discuss.

6. Herbert Kitschelt, “Political Opportunity Structures and Political Protest: Anti-Nuclear Movements in Four Democracies,” British Journal of Political Science 16, no. 1 (1986): 58.