Donna Lee Van Cott
Biographic Data
| ID | 167343 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Donna Lee Van Cott |
| GIVEN NAMES | Donna Lee |
| FAMILY NAME | Van Cott |
| SIGNATURE | VAN COTT D L |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Tennessee at Knoxville |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 26 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 299 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 26 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2010 |
| H-INDEX | 11 |
Los movimientos indígenas y sus logros: La representación y el reconocimiento jurídico en los Andes
Durante la última década el movimiento indígena en los países andinos ha obtenido importantes avances en cuanto a su representación a pesar del contexto poco favorable en que operaba. El movimiento avanzó creciendo gracias a la capacidad de hacer valer sus demandas en una coyuntura marcada por una notable crisis institucional y el consiguiente proceso de reformas constitucionales que tenían como fin legitimar los regímenes. El resultado de esta d…
Indigenous Peoples' Politics in Latin America
Political science research on indigenous peoples' politics in Latin America is methodologically diverse and interdisciplinary. It has produced significant insights about citizenship, reform of the state, and the causes and consequences of the emergence and success of identity-based social movements and political parties. In order to expand and deepen our knowledge, future research should pursue three goals. First, scholars should explore a wider …
Indigenous Movements Lose Momentum
Although isolated victories do occur ... contemporary indigenous politics is marked more by retrenchment than by progress
Field Research in Developing Countries: Hitting the Road Running
The availability of relatively reliable and comparable data online and the increasing emphasis on statistical and formal research methods has led many political scientists to dismiss research in foreign countries as a waste of time and money. We leave that debate to others (see, e.g., Comparative Politics Organized Section 2005; Qualitative Methods Organized Section 2004). Instead, we offer suggestions for maximizing the contributions of fieldwor…
Radical Democracy in the Andes
After a decade in local office, are indigenous peoples' governments in the Andes fulfilling their promise to provide a more participatory, accountable, and deliberative form of democracy? Using current debates in democratic theory as a framework, Donna Lee Van Cott examines 10 examples of institutional innovation by indigenous party-controlled municipalities in Bolivia and Ecuador. In contrast to studies emphasizing the role of individuals and ci…
Disunity in Diversity: Party System Fragmentation and the Dynamic Effect of Ethnic Heterogeneity on Latin American Legislatures
This paper demonstrates that in Latin America a significant portion of the increased legislative party system fragmentation since the 1980s is explained by the recent political incorporation of ethnic populations. Until now, scholars have likely not identified this relationship because they have not used the nuanced measures of ethnic fractionalization that account for internal diversity of indigenous populations and race, and because they have n…
Latin America's Indigenous Peoples
Among the key influences shaping the quality of democracy in Latin America today are the recent political mobilization and formal incorporation of indigenous peoples. In countries where such peoples make up a large share or even a majority of the populace, their legal and political incorporation into the state signifies a major power shift and the weakening of institutions that had been built to exclude them. Where indigenous peoples constitute a…
The Emergence and Performance of Indigenous Peoples’ Parties in South America: A Subnational Statistical Analysis
One of the most significant and unexpected developments in Latin America during the past 10 years is the emergence of parties organized around indigenous identity. The authors use subnational data from six South American countries (Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela) to examine the factors responsible for the variation in the emergence and performance of indigenous peoples’ political parties in the region. Using a pooled cross…
From Movements to Parties in Latin America: The Evolution of Ethnic Politics
Provides a detailed treatment of an important topic that has received no scholarly attention: the surprising transformation of indigenous peoples' movements into viable political parties in the 1990s in four Latin American countries (Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela) and their failure to succeed in two others (Argentina, Peru). The parties studied are crucial components of major trends in the region. By providing to voters clear programs for…
Building inclusive democracies: Indigenous peoples and ethnic minorities in Latin America
The political mobilization of indigenous peoples, ethnic minorities, and oppressed majorities has presented challenges to democratizing countries. Although, in other regions of the world, this has fostered anti-democratic tendencies, in Latin America, on balance, it has improved the quality of democracy by placing new issues and values (justice, equality, tolerance of difference) on the political agenda and by presenting a model of policy-making …
From Movements to Parties in Latin America: The Evolution of Ethnic Politics
Resurgent Voices in Latin America: Indigenous Peoples, Political Mobilization, and Religious Change
Resurgent Voices in Latin America: Indigenous Peoples, Political Mobilization, and Religious Change. Edited by Edward L. Cleary and Timothy J. Steigenga. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2004. 304p. $24.95. Latin America's indigenous peoples' social movements are gaining increasing attention from political scientists. Once the exclusive interest of anthropologists, sociologists, and historians, by the 1990s political scientists could …
A Graduate Student's Guide to Publishing Scholarly Journal Articles
In recent years, arriving on the job market with published work has shifted from a desirable condition to a necessity. Even middling universities can afford to ignore applications from job applicants without peer-reviewed articles in scholarly journals. Thus, it is important for graduate students to focus as early as possible on publishing their work. I wish to thank Brian Brox, Jonathan Hartlyn, and Nancy Maveety for comments on an earlier draft
Mayan Lives, Mayan Utopias: The Indigenous Peoples of Chiapas and the Zapatista Rebellion
Since the 1994 Zapatista Rebellion—an uprising of mostly Mayan Indians calling themselves the Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional—scholars have produced dozens of volumes seeking to assess its origins and implications. The flow of scholarship has lost no steam as we mark the tenth anniversary of this extraordinary event, and rightly so. The rebellion’s combination of indigenous struggles for self-determination with an armed strategy was a s…
Broadening Democracy: Latin America's Indigenous Peoples' Movements
Indigenous peoples' movements have transcended their status as objects of government policy, or as a passing fad that grabbed attention as a colorful cultural phenomenon. They have converted themselves into a resilient, cohesive political force with the power to determine political outcomes
Indigenous Struggle
Using a variety of disciplinary lenses, the books collected here explain how indigenous peoples in Latin America struggle toward a [End Page 220] myriad of goals: for the survival of their historically rooted yet constantly changing cultures; for title to and control over traditionally held territories; for the right to define themselves individually and collectively in relation to other groups in society; for the right to control images and repr…
Andean Indigenous Movements and Constitutional Transformation: Venezuela in Comparative Perspective
From Exclusion to Inclusion: Bolivia's 2002 Elections
In Bolivia's 2002 national elections indigenous-movement-based political parties combined to capture 27 per cent of the vote, far surpassing their previous performance and constituting a major improvement in the representation of the country's excluded indigenous majority. Using a social movement theory framework, I attribute this result to five interacting factors: institutional changes that opened the system; the collapse of two competitive par…
Institutional Change and Ethnic Parties in South America
The central question of this article is why indigenous social movements formed electorally viable political parties in Latin America in the 1990s. This development represents a new phenomenon in Latin America, where ethnic parties have been both rare and unpopular among voters. Institutional reforms in six South American countries are examined to see if the creation and success of these parties can be correlated with changes in electoral systems,…
Ethnopolitics in Ecuador: Indigenous Rights and the Strengthening of Democracy
Introduction. * Nationalism and Indigenous Politics in Latin America. * Indigenous-State Relations in Ecuador: The Politics of Culture. * The 1990 Indigenous Uprising in Ecuador: Politicized Ethnicity as Social Movement. * The Politics of Identity Reconstruction. * Local Indigenous Politics: Three Cases in Rural Ecuador. * Conclusions
Explaining Ethnic Autonomy Regimes in Latin America
The Friendly Liquidation of the Past: The Politics of Diversity in Latin America
Party System Development and Indigenous Populations in Latin America: The Bolivian Case
The article links the relatively weaker institutionalization of political party systems in certain Latin American countries to the size of the country's indigenous population in order to explain a statistically significant inverse empirical relationship between the two variables. It argues that elites in countries with proportionally significant indigenous populations in the early 20th century organized political parties to dominate subordinate g…
Latin America: Constitutional Reform and Ethnic Right
Journal Article Latin America: constitutional reform and ethnic right Get access D Lee Van Cott D Lee Van Cott University of Tennessee, USA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 53, Issue 1, January 2000, Pages 41–54, https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/53.1.41 Published: 01 January 2000
A Political Analysis of Legal Pluralism in Bolivia and Colombia
In this article the author compares recent efforts in Bolivia and Colombia to implement constitutionally mandated regimes of legal pluralism, and identifies the most important factors affecting the practical realisation of legal pluralism: the capacity of the political system, the legal tradition and society to tolerate normative diversity; the geographic isolation and cultural alienation of indigenous communities; the degree of internal division…
Indigenous Peoples' Politics in Latin America
Political science research on indigenous peoples' politics in Latin America is methodologically diverse and interdisciplinary. It has produced significant insights about citizenship, reform of the state, and the causes and consequences of the emergence and success of identity-based social movements and political parties. In order to expand and deepen our knowledge, future research should pursue three goals. First, scholars should explore a wider …
Party System Development and Indigenous Populations in Latin America: The Bolivian Case
The article links the relatively weaker institutionalization of political party systems in certain Latin American countries to the size of the country's indigenous population in order to explain a statistically significant inverse empirical relationship between the two variables. It argues that elites in countries with proportionally significant indigenous populations in the early 20th century organized political parties to dominate subordinate g…
Building inclusive democracies: Indigenous peoples and ethnic minorities in Latin America
The political mobilization of indigenous peoples, ethnic minorities, and oppressed majorities has presented challenges to democratizing countries. Although, in other regions of the world, this has fostered anti-democratic tendencies, in Latin America, on balance, it has improved the quality of democracy by placing new issues and values (justice, equality, tolerance of difference) on the political agenda and by presenting a model of policy-making …
Explaining Ethnic Autonomy Regimes in Latin America
The Emergence and Performance of Indigenous Peoples’ Parties in South America: A Subnational Statistical Analysis
One of the most significant and unexpected developments in Latin America during the past 10 years is the emergence of parties organized around indigenous identity. The authors use subnational data from six South American countries (Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela) to examine the factors responsible for the variation in the emergence and performance of indigenous peoples’ political parties in the region. Using a pooled cross…
Institutional Change and Ethnic Parties in South America
The central question of this article is why indigenous social movements formed electorally viable political parties in Latin America in the 1990s. This development represents a new phenomenon in Latin America, where ethnic parties have been both rare and unpopular among voters. Institutional reforms in six South American countries are examined to see if the creation and success of these parties can be correlated with changes in electoral systems,…
From Exclusion to Inclusion: Bolivia's 2002 Elections
In Bolivia's 2002 national elections indigenous-movement-based political parties combined to capture 27 per cent of the vote, far surpassing their previous performance and constituting a major improvement in the representation of the country's excluded indigenous majority. Using a social movement theory framework, I attribute this result to five interacting factors: institutional changes that opened the system; the collapse of two competitive par…
Latin America's Indigenous Peoples
Among the key influences shaping the quality of democracy in Latin America today are the recent political mobilization and formal incorporation of indigenous peoples. In countries where such peoples make up a large share or even a majority of the populace, their legal and political incorporation into the state signifies a major power shift and the weakening of institutions that had been built to exclude them. Where indigenous peoples constitute a…
A Political Analysis of Legal Pluralism in Bolivia and Colombia
In this article the author compares recent efforts in Bolivia and Colombia to implement constitutionally mandated regimes of legal pluralism, and identifies the most important factors affecting the practical realisation of legal pluralism: the capacity of the political system, the legal tradition and society to tolerate normative diversity; the geographic isolation and cultural alienation of indigenous communities; the degree of internal division…
Andean Indigenous Movements and Constitutional Transformation: Venezuela in Comparative Perspective
Latin America: Constitutional Reform and Ethnic Right
Journal Article Latin America: constitutional reform and ethnic right Get access D Lee Van Cott D Lee Van Cott University of Tennessee, USA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 53, Issue 1, January 2000, Pages 41–54, https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/53.1.41 Published: 01 January 2000
Ethnopolitics in Ecuador: Indigenous Rights and the Strengthening of Democracy
Introduction. * Nationalism and Indigenous Politics in Latin America. * Indigenous-State Relations in Ecuador: The Politics of Culture. * The 1990 Indigenous Uprising in Ecuador: Politicized Ethnicity as Social Movement. * The Politics of Identity Reconstruction. * Local Indigenous Politics: Three Cases in Rural Ecuador. * Conclusions
Resurgent Voices in Latin America: Indigenous Peoples, Political Mobilization, and Religious Change
Resurgent Voices in Latin America: Indigenous Peoples, Political Mobilization, and Religious Change. Edited by Edward L. Cleary and Timothy J. Steigenga. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2004. 304p. $24.95. Latin America's indigenous peoples' social movements are gaining increasing attention from political scientists. Once the exclusive interest of anthropologists, sociologists, and historians, by the 1990s political scientists could …
Los movimientos indígenas y sus logros: La representación y el reconocimiento jurídico en los Andes
Durante la última década el movimiento indígena en los países andinos ha obtenido importantes avances en cuanto a su representación a pesar del contexto poco favorable en que operaba. El movimiento avanzó creciendo gracias a la capacidad de hacer valer sus demandas en una coyuntura marcada por una notable crisis institucional y el consiguiente proceso de reformas constitucionales que tenían como fin legitimar los regímenes. El resultado de esta d…
Broadening Democracy: Latin America's Indigenous Peoples' Movements
Indigenous peoples' movements have transcended their status as objects of government policy, or as a passing fad that grabbed attention as a colorful cultural phenomenon. They have converted themselves into a resilient, cohesive political force with the power to determine political outcomes
From Movements to Parties in Latin America: The Evolution of Ethnic Politics
Field Research in Developing Countries: Hitting the Road Running
The availability of relatively reliable and comparable data online and the increasing emphasis on statistical and formal research methods has led many political scientists to dismiss research in foreign countries as a waste of time and money. We leave that debate to others (see, e.g., Comparative Politics Organized Section 2005; Qualitative Methods Organized Section 2004). Instead, we offer suggestions for maximizing the contributions of fieldwor…
The Friendly Liquidation of the Past: The Politics of Diversity in Latin America
Prospects for Self-Determination of Indigenous Peoples in Latin America: Questions of Law and Practice
Prospects for Self-Determination of Indigenous Peoples in Latin America: Questions of Law and Practice
The Friendly Liquidation of the Past: The Politics of Diversity in Latin America
Party System Development and Indigenous Populations in Latin America: The Bolivian Case
The article links the relatively weaker institutionalization of political party systems in certain Latin American countries to the size of the country's indigenous population in order to explain a statistically significant inverse empirical relationship between the two variables. It argues that elites in countries with proportionally significant indigenous populations in the early 20th century organized political parties to dominate subordinate g…
Latin America: Constitutional Reform and Ethnic Right
Journal Article Latin America: constitutional reform and ethnic right Get access D Lee Van Cott D Lee Van Cott University of Tennessee, USA Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Parliamentary Affairs, Volume 53, Issue 1, January 2000, Pages 41–54, https://doi.org/10.1093/pa/53.1.41 Published: 01 January 2000
A Political Analysis of Legal Pluralism in Bolivia and Colombia
In this article the author compares recent efforts in Bolivia and Colombia to implement constitutionally mandated regimes of legal pluralism, and identifies the most important factors affecting the practical realisation of legal pluralism: the capacity of the political system, the legal tradition and society to tolerate normative diversity; the geographic isolation and cultural alienation of indigenous communities; the degree of internal division…
Explaining Ethnic Autonomy Regimes in Latin America
Ethnopolitics in Ecuador: Indigenous Rights and the Strengthening of Democracy
Introduction. * Nationalism and Indigenous Politics in Latin America. * Indigenous-State Relations in Ecuador: The Politics of Culture. * The 1990 Indigenous Uprising in Ecuador: Politicized Ethnicity as Social Movement. * The Politics of Identity Reconstruction. * Local Indigenous Politics: Three Cases in Rural Ecuador. * Conclusions
Indigenous Struggle
Using a variety of disciplinary lenses, the books collected here explain how indigenous peoples in Latin America struggle toward a [End Page 220] myriad of goals: for the survival of their historically rooted yet constantly changing cultures; for title to and control over traditionally held territories; for the right to define themselves individually and collectively in relation to other groups in society; for the right to control images and repr…
Andean Indigenous Movements and Constitutional Transformation: Venezuela in Comparative Perspective
From Exclusion to Inclusion: Bolivia's 2002 Elections
In Bolivia's 2002 national elections indigenous-movement-based political parties combined to capture 27 per cent of the vote, far surpassing their previous performance and constituting a major improvement in the representation of the country's excluded indigenous majority. Using a social movement theory framework, I attribute this result to five interacting factors: institutional changes that opened the system; the collapse of two competitive par…
Institutional Change and Ethnic Parties in South America
The central question of this article is why indigenous social movements formed electorally viable political parties in Latin America in the 1990s. This development represents a new phenomenon in Latin America, where ethnic parties have been both rare and unpopular among voters. Institutional reforms in six South American countries are examined to see if the creation and success of these parties can be correlated with changes in electoral systems,…
Broadening Democracy: Latin America's Indigenous Peoples' Movements
Indigenous peoples' movements have transcended their status as objects of government policy, or as a passing fad that grabbed attention as a colorful cultural phenomenon. They have converted themselves into a resilient, cohesive political force with the power to determine political outcomes
From Movements to Parties in Latin America: The Evolution of Ethnic Politics
Provides a detailed treatment of an important topic that has received no scholarly attention: the surprising transformation of indigenous peoples' movements into viable political parties in the 1990s in four Latin American countries (Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Venezuela) and their failure to succeed in two others (Argentina, Peru). The parties studied are crucial components of major trends in the region. By providing to voters clear programs for…
Building inclusive democracies: Indigenous peoples and ethnic minorities in Latin America
The political mobilization of indigenous peoples, ethnic minorities, and oppressed majorities has presented challenges to democratizing countries. Although, in other regions of the world, this has fostered anti-democratic tendencies, in Latin America, on balance, it has improved the quality of democracy by placing new issues and values (justice, equality, tolerance of difference) on the political agenda and by presenting a model of policy-making …
From Movements to Parties in Latin America: The Evolution of Ethnic Politics
Resurgent Voices in Latin America: Indigenous Peoples, Political Mobilization, and Religious Change
Resurgent Voices in Latin America: Indigenous Peoples, Political Mobilization, and Religious Change. Edited by Edward L. Cleary and Timothy J. Steigenga. New Brunswick, NJ: Rutgers University Press, 2004. 304p. $24.95. Latin America's indigenous peoples' social movements are gaining increasing attention from political scientists. Once the exclusive interest of anthropologists, sociologists, and historians, by the 1990s political scientists could …
A Graduate Student's Guide to Publishing Scholarly Journal Articles
In recent years, arriving on the job market with published work has shifted from a desirable condition to a necessity. Even middling universities can afford to ignore applications from job applicants without peer-reviewed articles in scholarly journals. Thus, it is important for graduate students to focus as early as possible on publishing their work. I wish to thank Brian Brox, Jonathan Hartlyn, and Nancy Maveety for comments on an earlier draft
Mayan Lives, Mayan Utopias: The Indigenous Peoples of Chiapas and the Zapatista Rebellion
Since the 1994 Zapatista Rebellion—an uprising of mostly Mayan Indians calling themselves the Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional—scholars have produced dozens of volumes seeking to assess its origins and implications. The flow of scholarship has lost no steam as we mark the tenth anniversary of this extraordinary event, and rightly so. The rebellion’s combination of indigenous struggles for self-determination with an armed strategy was a s…
The Emergence and Performance of Indigenous Peoples’ Parties in South America: A Subnational Statistical Analysis
One of the most significant and unexpected developments in Latin America during the past 10 years is the emergence of parties organized around indigenous identity. The authors use subnational data from six South American countries (Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela) to examine the factors responsible for the variation in the emergence and performance of indigenous peoples’ political parties in the region. Using a pooled cross…
Disunity in Diversity: Party System Fragmentation and the Dynamic Effect of Ethnic Heterogeneity on Latin American Legislatures
This paper demonstrates that in Latin America a significant portion of the increased legislative party system fragmentation since the 1980s is explained by the recent political incorporation of ethnic populations. Until now, scholars have likely not identified this relationship because they have not used the nuanced measures of ethnic fractionalization that account for internal diversity of indigenous populations and race, and because they have n…
Latin America's Indigenous Peoples
Among the key influences shaping the quality of democracy in Latin America today are the recent political mobilization and formal incorporation of indigenous peoples. In countries where such peoples make up a large share or even a majority of the populace, their legal and political incorporation into the state signifies a major power shift and the weakening of institutions that had been built to exclude them. Where indigenous peoples constitute a…
Radical Democracy in the Andes
After a decade in local office, are indigenous peoples' governments in the Andes fulfilling their promise to provide a more participatory, accountable, and deliberative form of democracy? Using current debates in democratic theory as a framework, Donna Lee Van Cott examines 10 examples of institutional innovation by indigenous party-controlled municipalities in Bolivia and Ecuador. In contrast to studies emphasizing the role of individuals and ci…
Indigenous Movements Lose Momentum
Although isolated victories do occur ... contemporary indigenous politics is marked more by retrenchment than by progress
Field Research in Developing Countries: Hitting the Road Running
The availability of relatively reliable and comparable data online and the increasing emphasis on statistical and formal research methods has led many political scientists to dismiss research in foreign countries as a waste of time and money. We leave that debate to others (see, e.g., Comparative Politics Organized Section 2005; Qualitative Methods Organized Section 2004). Instead, we offer suggestions for maximizing the contributions of fieldwor…
Los movimientos indígenas y sus logros: La representación y el reconocimiento jurídico en los Andes
Durante la última década el movimiento indígena en los países andinos ha obtenido importantes avances en cuanto a su representación a pesar del contexto poco favorable en que operaba. El movimiento avanzó creciendo gracias a la capacidad de hacer valer sus demandas en una coyuntura marcada por una notable crisis institucional y el consiguiente proceso de reformas constitucionales que tenían como fin legitimar los regímenes. El resultado de esta d…
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