Politics and social change in Latin America : still a distinct tradition? / edited by Howard J. Wiarda and Margaret MacLeish Mott.

Includes bibliographical references (pages [293]-300) and index.

Interpreting Latin America's politics on its own terms / Howard J. Wiarda and Margaret MacLeish Mott -- Patterns of continuity in Latin American society: political and historical perspectives / Roland H. Ebel -- Two cultures and political behavior in Latin America / Glen Caudill Dealy -- The Latin American tradition / Roland H. Ebel and Raymond Taras -- The Spanish American past: enemy of change / Donald E. Worcester -- Science, technology, and Hispanic America / Irving A. Leonard -- Claims of a political tradition / Richard M. Morse -- Historical determinants of the Latin American state: the tradition of bureaucratic-patrimonialism, corporatism, centralism, and authoritarianism / Howard J. Wiarda -- The tradition of higher laws in Latin America / Margaret MacLeish Mott -- Latin America and democracy / Octavio Paz -- From El Cid to El Che: the hero and the mystique of liberation in Latin America / Dolores Moyano Martin -- Latin America's magical liberalism / Tina Rosenberg -- The news about religion in Latin America / Daniel H. Levine -- On democracy and democratization / Peter H. Smith -- Consensus found, consensus lost: disjunctures in U. S. policy toward Latin America in the new millenium / Howard J. Wiarda.