Latin America's indigenous peoples

Journal of Democracy

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 127-141

  Van Cott, Donna Lee ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT   (United States)

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1. rd ed. (Boulder, Colo.: Lynne Rienner, 2005), 5.
2. National censuses and surveys taken by anthropologists and development professionals struggle with and differ over issues of methodology, classification, and distrust between census takers and subjects, all of which make the task of measurement more difficult.
3. Shannan Mattiace, To See with Two Eyes: Peasant Activism and Indian Autonomy in Chiapas, Mexico (Albuquerque: University of New Mexico Press, 2003), xi.
4. For useful overviews of this process, see Alison Brysk, From Tribal Village to Global Village: Indian Rights and International Relations in Latin America (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2000);
5. and David Maybury-Lewis, ed., The Politics of Ethnicity: Indigenous Peoples in Latin American States (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 2002).
6. On Guatemala, see Kay Warren, "Voting against Indigenous Rights in Guatemala: Lessons from the 1999 Referendum," in Kay B. Warren and Jean E. Jackson, eds., Indigenous Movements, Self-Representation, and the State in Latin America (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2002), 149-80.
7. nd ed. (Distrito Federal, Mexico: Inter-American Indigenous Institute, 2004).
8. For analyses of indigenous constitutional rights, see Willem Assies et al., eds., The Challenge of Diversity: Indigenous Peoples and Reform of the State in Latin America (Amsterdam: Thela Thesis, 2001);
9. and Donna Lee Van Cott, The Friendly Liquidation of the Past: The Politics of Diversity in Latin America (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2000).
10. For electoral data on indigenous parties up to 2005, see Donna Lee Van Cott, From Movements to Parties in Latin America: The Evolution of Ethnic Politics (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005).
11. See Matthew R. Cleary, "Explaining the Left's Resurgence," Journal of Democracy 17 (October 2006): 39;
12. and Kenneth M. Roberts, "Social Inequalities Without Class Cleavages in Latin America's Neoliberal Era," Studies in Comparative International Development 36 (Winter 2002): 15-16.
13. Kenneth M. Roberts, "Party-Society Linkages and Democratic Representation in Latin America," Canadian Journal of Latin American and Caribbean Studies 27 (Spring 2002): 9-34.
14. On democratic quality and inequality, see Dietrich Rueschmeyer, "Addressing Inequality," Journal of Democracy 15 (October 2004): 80-86.
15. See Anthony Bebbington, Gonzalo Delamaza, and Rodrigo Villar, "El desarrollo de base y los espacios públicos de concertación local en América Latina," 2005, www.innovacionciudadana.cl/ latinoamerica/espacios.asp;
16. and Ana María Larrea and Juan Pablo Muńoz, eds., Organizaciones Campesinas e Indígenas y Poderes Locales: Propuestas para la Gestión Participativa del Desarrollo Local (Quito: Red Interamericana Agriculture y Democracia, 1998).
17. See Scott Mainwaring, "The Crisis of Representation in the Andes," Journal of Democracy 17 (July 2006): 13-27;
18. and Hector E. Schamis, "Populism, Socialism, and Democratic Institutions," Journal of Democracy 17 (October 2006): 19-34.
19. Schamis, "Populism, Socialism, and Democratic Institutions," 29-32. Robust earnings from hydrocarbon taxes and royalties raised 2006 tax receipts by 46 percent over 2005 levels, to US$1.71 billion. Earnings from additional revenues are expected to bring the government approximately $1 billion annually after 2007.
20. See "Gas Boost for Morales," Latin American Regional Report: Andean Group (Latin American Newsletters), November 2006, 15.
21. George Simmel, Conflict and the Web of Group Affiliations (New York: Free Press, 1955).
22. The classic source on ethnic parties is Donald L. Horowitz, Ethnic Groups in Conflict (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1985).
23. On the importance of the rule of law in democracies, see Guillermo O'Donnell, "Why the Rule of Law Matters," Journal of Democracy 15 (October 2004): 32-46.
24. On indigenous peoples' customary-justice systems, see Rachel Sieder, "Recognizing Indigenous Law and the Politics of State Formation in Mesoamerica," in Rachel Sieder, ed., Multiculturalism in Latin America: Indigenous Rights, Diversity and Democracy (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2002), 184-207;
25. and Raquel Yrigoyen Fajardo, "The Constitutional Recognition of Indigenous Law in Andean Countries," in Assies et al., The Challenge of Diversity, 197-222.
26. Charles Hale coined this term in "Does Multiculturalism Menace? Governments, Cultural Rights and the Politics of Identity in Guatemala," Journal of Latin American Studies 34 (August 2002): 485-524.