Miguel Angel Centeno
Biographic Data
| ID | 155117 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Miguel Angel Centeno |
| GIVEN NAMES | Miguel Angel |
| FAMILY NAME | Centeno |
| SIGNATURE | CENTENO M A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Princeton University |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8847-1194 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 55 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 635 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 52 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 3 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1992 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 9 |
A Delusion of Control: Loss of Agency in Modern Complex Systems
Modern life is in many ways defined by how humans across the world are highly interconnected—and interdependent—through complex global systems. These technologically advanced systems satisfy critical needs through large-scale global networks of communication, transportation, food, healthcare, energy, manufacturing, and finance. The structure and dynamics of these self-organized networks—or complex adaptive systems (CAS)—are studied to analyze sys…
On the State, Potentials, and Current Tensions of the Social Sciences in Latin America
This essay introduces a special collection on the state, potential, and tensions of the social sciences in Latin America. It briefly reflects on the historic role that these disciplines have exerted in society, policy, and culture, their troubled trajectory –– which included episodes of rapid expansion and significant retreatment (if not ostracism) ––, and their current situation in terms of institutional development and research agendas. It also…
Boat to bowl: Resilience through network rewiring of a community-supported fishery amid the Covid-19 pandemic
Fisheries are coupled human–natural systems locally, regionally, and globally. However, human–nature interactions within and between adjacent and distant systems (metacouplings) are rarely studied in fisheries despite their prevalence and policy relevance. We filled this knowledge gap by using network models to identify how the severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) pandemic has rewired couplings and reshaped resilience of F…
Resilience in Global Value Chains: A Systemic Risk Approach
Global value chains (GVCs) have increased efficiencies, accelerated production, reduced costs, and increased wealth and opportunities for workers, firms, nations, and the global economy as a whole. However, the benefits and efficiencies provided by these GVCs come at the cost of increasing risks. This is largely because the emergence and evolution of GVCs have been enabled by advancements in globalization, complexity, and technology, as well as t…
Artificial intelligence, systemic risks, and sustainability
Automated decision making and predictive analytics through artificial intelligence, in combination with rapid progress in technologies such as sensor technology and robotics are likely to change the way individuals, communities, governments and private actors perceive and respond to climate and ecological change. Methods based on various forms of artificial intelligence are already today being applied in a number of research fields related to cli…
Other Mirror: Grand Theory Through the Lens of Latin America
The Disciplinary Society in Latin America
For a Global Social Science
Unpacking States in the Developing World: Capacity, Performance, and Politics
Conclusion
A Cross-National Comparison of Sub-National Variation
Previous research has highlighted that, in addition to being operationally opaque, the concept of state capacity has been confined to national and cross-national analysis, with inadequate attention paid to variations at the regional and sub-national levels of the state. Our current research seeks to help remedy this lacuna. Inspired by the growing consensus that state capacity is not monolithic, but instead comprises capabilities distributed in d…
Sub-Nationalism
The global move toward decentralization and the seeming retreat of social groups to their distinct corners imply that subunits (both states and local governments), sectors, and regions may have more explanatory value in our current world than previously. In this special issue, we embrace both large and small "N" sub-national analysis-as a means of understanding the uneven nature of specific transformations within and across countries. While sub-n…
Who Gives, Who Takes? "Real America" and Contributions to the Nation-State
Although service to the nation-state features in academic and lay understandings of patriotism, claims of patriotism are rarely examined alongside contributions to the nation-state. The present study examines four behaviors-military enlistment, voting, monetary contributions, and census response-to evaluate the claim that certain parts of the United States, and specifically the communities of "real America," contribute more than others to the cou…
Neoliberalism
What is neoliberalism and how do we account for its policy dominance over three decades? We analyze the rise and power of neoliberalism from three different perspectives: economic, political, and cultural. We argue that cultural analysis of policy preferences and success is critical to understanding the appeal and staying power of neoliberalism.
Blood and Debt: War and the Nation-State in Latin America
The Emergence of Global Systemic Risk
In this article, we discuss the increasing interdependence of societies, focusing specifically on issues of systemic instability and fragility generated by the new and unprecedented level of connectedness and complexity resulting from globalization. We define the global system as a set of tightly coupled interactions that allow for the continued flow of information, capital, goods, services, and people. Using the general concepts of globality, co…
Republics of the Possible: State Building in Latin America and Spain
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State and Nation Making in Latin America and Spain: Republics of the Possible
A Holistic Approach to Language, Religion, and Ethnicity
State Capacity: Utilization, Durability, and the Role of Wealth vs. History
The concept of state capacity has been in development literature for decades. Nevertheless the concept, its operationalization, and its measurement are still highly contested. This paper seeks to briefly review the literature on state capacity and provide an empirical analysis of recent data in order to reassess the state of capacity theory and testing. We argue that very little, if any, attention has been paid to critical variations in national …
The Arc of Neoliberalism
For three decades, neoliberalism dominated the global political economy. Defined as an explicit preference for private over public control, neoliberalism represented a dramatic break from postwar policies. This article examines the historical development of neoliberalism through three perspectives: as an economic policy, as an expression of political power, and as an ideational hegemony. We reject the notion of neoliberal inevitability and sugges…
“Who counts, rules”: Comment on Ritajyoti Bandyopadhyay, “Politics of achieving: hawkers and pavement dwellers in Calcutta”
Growing Gaps: Educational Inequality Around the World
As inequality grows rapidly both in post-industrial societies and in the high-growth economies of the developing world, its centrality and ubiquity among problems of interest to social scientists is becoming only more apparent. And among all of inequality's causes and manifestations, access to education is key to understanding and combating it, both for improving a person's individual life chances and for increasing countries' national wealth. Th…
Legacies of empire
The Ever-Studied Isle
First paragraph]Cuba Transnational. Damián J. Fern ández (ed.). Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2005. xvii + 216 pp. (Cloth US$ 65.00)Cuba’s Aborted Reform: Socioeconomic Effects, International Comparisons, and Transition Policies. Carme lo Mesa-Lago & Jorge F. Pére z-Lópe z. Gainesville: University Press of Florida, 2005. xx + 223 pp. (Cloth US$ 59.95)Cuba, the United States, and the Post-Cold War World: The International Dimensions of…
Blood and Debt: War and the Nation-State in Latin America
The Arc of Neoliberalism
For three decades, neoliberalism dominated the global political economy. Defined as an explicit preference for private over public control, neoliberalism represented a dramatic break from postwar policies. This article examines the historical development of neoliberalism through three perspectives: as an economic policy, as an expression of political power, and as an ideational hegemony. We reject the notion of neoliberal inevitability and sugges…
The Lopsided Continent: Inequality in Latin America
Latin America has the most unbalanced distribution of resources of all regions in the world. This review defines a set of common elements characterizing social structures on that continent, suggests some lines for analysis and theorizing, and supports the integration of regional studies into broader discussions of stratification. We begin with an overview of the situation on the continent as a whole, including a short discussion of the relationsh…
The new Leviathan: The dynamics and limits of technocracy
Blood and Debt: War and Taxation in Nineteenth-Century Latin America
Using data from 11 Latin American countries, this article challenges the universality of the positive relationship between war and state making. Availability of external resources, state organizational capacity, and alliances with social actors are shown to help determine the political response to armed conflict. Overall, the article emphasizes the importance of causal sequence in determining the effect of war. War did not make states in Latin Am…
The Emergence of Global Systemic Risk
In this article, we discuss the increasing interdependence of societies, focusing specifically on issues of systemic instability and fragility generated by the new and unprecedented level of connectedness and complexity resulting from globalization. We define the global system as a set of tightly coupled interactions that allow for the continued flow of information, capital, goods, services, and people. Using the general concepts of globality, co…
Between Rocky Democracies and Hard Markets: Dilemmas of the Double Transition
There is a growing realization in academic and policy circles that the double transition to democracy and the market may not be as simple or as easy as first imagined. Beginning with a discussion of the relationship between economic policy and regime type, this review emphasizes the problems associated with the uncertainty of the double transformation. It then suggests three mechanisms discussed in the literature as contributing to a more stable …
The Marriage of Finance and Order: Changes in the Mexican Political Elite
Recent literature on Latin American political economy appears to echo work of the 1960s and 1970s emphasising technical expertise in government. Sikkink and Geddes, for example, suggest that the role of technical experts and professionalisation of the bureaucracy explain Brazil's relative economic successes in the 1960s.1Conaghan, Malloy and Abugattas focus on the role of technocrats in economic policy-making in the Central Andes.2Following semin…
Artificial intelligence, systemic risks, and sustainability
Automated decision making and predictive analytics through artificial intelligence, in combination with rapid progress in technologies such as sensor technology and robotics are likely to change the way individuals, communities, governments and private actors perceive and respond to climate and ecological change. Methods based on various forms of artificial intelligence are already today being applied in a number of research fields related to cli…
Society for Latin American Studies 2004 Plenary Lecture The Return of Cuba to Latin America: The End of Cuban Exceptionalism
Comparing Cuban history and contemporary circumstances to those in the rest of the region, this article challenges the idea of Cuban exceptionalism. The last four decades have seen Cuba move away from typical Latin American patterns such as economic and geographical inequalities. The Revolution has not been able, however, to reverse a historical dependence on external financing nor has it resolved racial inequities. While the Revolution did estab…
Phone calls and fax machines: The limits to globalization
The grand rhetoric about “global communications” begins to look a little flimsy when compared to the real facts about international telephone calling. It has not exploded in recent years, and it has not become truly global
Neoliberalism and Patterns of Economic Performance, 1980-2000
Neoliberal discourse often produces the impression that the world has undergone a wholesale shift toward laissez-faire and that this shift has produced economic prosperity. This article examines national economic data to discern the degree to which (1) governments have in fact retreated from the market and (2) countries have enjoyed increasing economic prosperity over a period in which they have supposedly been liberalizing. The evidence is mixed…
Liberalism and the Good Society in the Iberian World
This article investigates the causes behind the limited success of neoliberal economic policies in the Iberian world. In addition to Latin America, the author includes Portugal, Spain, and the Philippines in the analysis. The author argues that, in the absence of strong liberal states able to enforce the rule of law, economic liberalization has failed, expanding inequalities rather than bequeathing prosperity. The article gives special attention …
Democracy within reason: Technocratic revolution in Mexico
"Excellent analysis of bureaucratic developments and the technocratic revolution within Mexico. Includes assessments of short-term trends in Mexican leadership. Based on extensive field research and a survey of executive-branch department heads who provide the pool for future national-level political elites. Essential reading for Mexicanists"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.
A Cross-National Comparison of Sub-National Variation
Previous research has highlighted that, in addition to being operationally opaque, the concept of state capacity has been confined to national and cross-national analysis, with inadequate attention paid to variations at the regional and sub-national levels of the state. Our current research seeks to help remedy this lacuna. Inspired by the growing consensus that state capacity is not monolithic, but instead comprises capabilities distributed in d…
Legacies of empire
Redefiniendo la tecnocracia
A Holistic Approach to Language, Religion, and Ethnicity
Latin American Independence and the Double Dilemma
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Um continente entortado (América Latina)
Em todo o mundo, a América Latina é a região que apresenta a mais desequilibrada distribuição de recursos. O artigo define um conjunto comum de elementos que caracterizam as estruturas sociais do continente, sugere algumas linhas de análise e teorização e defende a integração dos estudos regionais nas discussões mais amplas a respeito da estratificação. Na primeira parte, examina-se a situação do continente como um todo, com uma breve discussão s…
Who are you: Who are We? The Challenges to America's National Identity by Samuel P. Huntington Simon & Schuster, 2004, 428 Pages
Still Disputing After All These Years: Recent Work on the Mexican Political Economy
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The Marriage of Finance and Order: Changes in the Mexican Political Elite
Recent literature on Latin American political economy appears to echo work of the 1960s and 1970s emphasising technical expertise in government. Sikkink and Geddes, for example, suggest that the role of technical experts and professionalisation of the bureaucracy explain Brazil's relative economic successes in the 1960s.1Conaghan, Malloy and Abugattas focus on the role of technocrats in economic policy-making in the Central Andes.2Following semin…
Still Disputing After All These Years: Recent Work on the Mexican Political Economy
An abstract is not available for this content so a preview has been provided. As you have access to this content, a full PDF is available via the ‘Save PDF’ action button
The new Leviathan: The dynamics and limits of technocracy
Democracy within reason: Technocratic revolution in Mexico
"Excellent analysis of bureaucratic developments and the technocratic revolution within Mexico. Includes assessments of short-term trends in Mexican leadership. Based on extensive field research and a survey of executive-branch department heads who provide the pool for future national-level political elites. Essential reading for Mexicanists"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.
Democracy within Reason: Technocratic Revolution in Mexico
Double-Edged Diplomacy: International Bargaining and Domestic Politics
Between Rocky Democracies and Hard Markets: Dilemmas of the Double Transition
There is a growing realization in academic and policy circles that the double transition to democracy and the market may not be as simple or as easy as first imagined. Beginning with a discussion of the relationship between economic policy and regime type, this review emphasizes the problems associated with the uncertainty of the double transformation. It then suggests three mechanisms discussed in the literature as contributing to a more stable …
Mexican Lives
Toward a New Cuba?: Legacies of a Revolution
This thorough overview of contemporary Cuban society provides a systematic analysis of the political and economic transitions of the 1990s, the way in which present conditions will shape the future of the island, and the extent to which Cuba fits, or defies, current models of transition.
Unsettling Statecraft: Democracy and Neoliberalism in the Central Andes. Catherine M. Conaghan , James M. Malloy
Everyday Forms of State Formation: Revolution and the Negotiation of Rule in Modern Mexico
Self-Determination and Self-Administration: A Sourcebook
A seminal collection of the papers and commentary presented at the First and Second International Conferences on Self-Determination, attended by representatives of more than 80 nations. Extensive appendixes contribute to the value of this comprehensive sourcebook.
After the Fall: The Legacy of Carlos Salinas
Dismantling the Mexican State? Edited by Rob Aitken, Nikki Craske, Gareth A. Jones, and David Stansfield. (London: Macmillan, 1996. $75.00). The Mexican Shock: Its Meaning for the US. By Jorge Castaiieda. (New York: New Press, 1995. $13.00). Mexican Politics in Transition: The Breakdown of a One-Party-Dominant Regime. By Wayne Cornelius. (La Jolla: Center for US-Mexican Studies, UCSD, 1996.$11.95). Democratizing Mexico: Public Opinion and Elector…
Toward a New Cuba: Legacies of a Revolution
This work provides an analysis of change in contemporary Cuba, the ways in which present circumstances will shape the future and the extent to which Cuba fits, or defies, models of transition. It also looks at how political, social and economic sectors might respond to various transition scenarios
Africa, Asia, and Latin America
Redefiniendo la tecnocracia
Blood and Debt: War and Taxation in Nineteenth-Century Latin America
Using data from 11 Latin American countries, this article challenges the universality of the positive relationship between war and state making. Availability of external resources, state organizational capacity, and alliances with social actors are shown to help determine the political response to armed conflict. Overall, the article emphasizes the importance of causal sequence in determining the effect of war. War did not make states in Latin Am…
Phone calls and fax machines: The limits to globalization
The grand rhetoric about “global communications” begins to look a little flimsy when compared to the real facts about international telephone calling. It has not exploded in recent years, and it has not become truly global
The Politics of Expertise in Latin America
Intimate Ironies: Modernity and the Making of Middle-Class Lives in Brazil. Brian P. Owensby
The Other Mirror: Grand Theory through the Lens of Latin America
If social science's "cultural turn" has taught us anything, it is that knowledge is constrained by the time and place in which it is produced. In response, scholars have begun to reassess social theory from the standpoints of groups and places outside of the European context upon which most grand theory is based. Here a distinguished group of scholars reevaluates widely accepted theories of state, property, race, and economics against Latin Ameri…
Blood and Debt: War and the Nation-State in Latin America
"What role does war play in political development? Our understanding of the rise of the nation-state is based heavily on the Western European experience of war. Challenging the dominance of this model, Blood and Debt looks at Latin America's much different experience as more relevant to politics today in regions as varied as the Balkans and sub-Saharan Africa."--BOOK JACKET.
The Lopsided Continent: Inequality in Latin America
Latin America has the most unbalanced distribution of resources of all regions in the world. This review defines a set of common elements characterizing social structures on that continent, suggests some lines for analysis and theorizing, and supports the integration of regional studies into broader discussions of stratification. We begin with an overview of the situation on the continent as a whole, including a short discussion of the relationsh…
Society for Latin American Studies 2004 Plenary Lecture The Return of Cuba to Latin America: The End of Cuban Exceptionalism
Comparing Cuban history and contemporary circumstances to those in the rest of the region, this article challenges the idea of Cuban exceptionalism. The last four decades have seen Cuba move away from typical Latin American patterns such as economic and geographical inequalities. The Revolution has not been able, however, to reverse a historical dependence on external financing nor has it resolved racial inequities. While the Revolution did estab…
Blood and Debt: War and the Nation-State in Latin America
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