Journal of Latin American studies Vol. 41, part 3, august 2009

Sonja Wolf
Subverting democracy: elite rule and the limits to political participation in post-war El Salvador

Eduardo Alemán
Institutions, political conflict and the cohesion of policy networks in the chilean Congress, 1961–2006

Claudio Robles-Ortiz
Agrarian capitalism and rural labour: the hacienda system in central Chile, 1870–1920

Erick D. Langer
Bringing the economic back in: andean indians and the construction of the nation-state in nineteenth-century Bolivia

Commentary

Ben Ross Schneider
Hierarchical market economies and varieties of capitalism in Latin America