Part I. Introduction -- Chapter 1. Introduction -- Part II. Theoretical Framework -- Chapter 2. Political Discontent: Specificity, Trajectory, and Discontent -- Chapter 3. The Unique Problem of Political Disaffection -- Chapter 4. Digital Platforms and their Democratic Role -- Chapter 5....

This contributed volume is the first book in English to offer a current and critical vision of regional problems and policies in the countries of Latin America. The book is in three main parts: a general overview of regional processes and trends in Latin America as a whole; country-level coverage...

This paper aims at demonstrating how countries' dependency on natural resources plays a crucial role in urban concentration. The Zipf's Curve Elasticity is estimated for a group of countries and related to a set of indicators of unilateral transferences. Results show that in comparison to...

Standard parametric tests of convergence cannot capture whether the increased dispersion among state incomes is due to a steepening gradient between north and south, a few hot states randomly distributed, or as an intermediate position, the emergence of convergence clubs. This paper tests for...