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This book explores environmental policymaking in Mexico as a
vehicle to understanding the broader changes in the policy process
within a system undergoing a democratic transformation. It
constitutes the first major analysis of environmental policymaking
in Mexico at the national level, and examines the implementation of
forestry policy in Mexico's largest rain forest, the Selva
Lacandona of the state of Chiapas.
Based on extensive field research and presenting new research
findings, this book explores environmental policymaking in Mexico
as a vehicle to understanding the broader changes in the policy
process within a system undergoing a democratic transformation.
Written in style that makes it accessible to a wider audience, this
study constitutes the first major analysis at the national level,
examining the implementation of forestry policy in Mexico's largest
rain forest, the Selva Lacandona of the State of Chiapas. Dealing
with an exciting topic, this book will appeal to those studying
political science, public policy, environmental studies,
development studies and Latin American politics, as well as
practitioners, activists and specialists who work on environmental
issues in Latin America, North America and developing countries.
This pioneering collection offers a comprehensive investigation
into how to study public policy in Latin America. While this region
exhibits many similarities with the North American and European
countries that have traditionally served as sources for generating
public policy knowledge, Latin American countries are also
different in many fundamental ways. As such, existing policy
concepts and frameworks may not always be the most effective tools
of analysis for this unique region. To fill this gap, Comparative
Public Policy in Latin America offers guidelines for refining
current theories to suit Latin America's contemporary institutional
and socio-economic realities. The contributors accomplish this task
by identifying the features of the region that shape public policy,
including informal norms and practices, social inequality, and weak
institutions. This book promises to become the definitive work on
contemporary public policy in Latin America, essential for those
who study the area as well as comparative public policy more
broadly.
Addressing one of the defining social issues of our time, The
Politics of Gay Marriage in Latin America explores how and why
Latin America, a culturally Catholic and historically conservative
region, has become a leader among nations of the Global South, and
even the Global North, in the passage of gay marriage legislation.
In the first comparative study of its kind, Jordi Diez explains
cross-national variation in the enactment of gay marriage in three
countries: Argentina, Chile, and Mexico. Based on extensive
interviews in the three countries, Diez argues that three main key
factors explain variation in policy outcomes across these cases:
the strength of social movement networks forged by activists in
favor of gay marriage; the access to policy making afforded by
particular national political institutions; and the resonance of
the frames used to demand the expansion of marriage rights to
same-sex couples.
In "Global Environmental Challenges," a collection of experts
examines globalization's multiple effects on the environments of
countries in the Global South, and how they are addressed both
domestically and internationally. As the process of globalization
continues to unfold, several questions arise: What new
environmental challenges has globalization brought to countries in
the Global South? Has the international environmental agenda had an
effect on the politics and policy of these countries? And finally,
to what extent have international civil society actors influenced
environmental management? Contributors here address these central
questions by presenting eleven case studies from the Global South.
In addressing these questions, "Global Environmental Challenges
"examines the complex relationship between environmental
management, development, and globalization.
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