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ID73544
NAMEKathryn Hochstetler
GIVEN NAMESKathryn
FAMILY NAMEHochstetler
SIGNATUREHOCHSTETLER K
AFFILIATIONSColorado State University
ORCID0000-0003-2960-058X
VERIFIEDYes
TOTAL WORKS47
TOTAL CITATIONS527
AUTHOR COUNT45
EDITOR COUNT2
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1998
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2025
H-INDEX13
  • The Green Economy and the Global South

    Open Access•Kathryn Hochstetler•ARTICLE•Regulation & Governance•2025•References: 10

    The idea of a “green economy” is one of the latest attempts to bridge the environment and development aims, with a focus on economic growth that makes it appealing to countries that still see a significant development gap to make up. Yet the green economy—most often studied in the Global North and made the target of explicit policy initiatives there, often with substantial public and private resources—also presents additional challenges for the d…

  • Bridging the global stocktake gap of climate mitigation: A framework to measure political economy progress

    Open Access•Mengye Zhu, Vaibhav Chaturvedi et al.•ARTICLE•One Earth•2023

  • Institutionalising decarbonisation in South Africa: Navigating Climate Mitigation and Socio-Economic Transformation

    Open Access•Emily Tyler, Kathryn Hochstetler•ARTICLE•Environmental Politics•2021•Cited by: 5•References: 18

    Strong climate institutional governance is necessary for countries to meet their international climate mitigation commitments. This article shows that while South Africa steadily created climate institutions up to 2011, these failed to take hold in the following years. Also, despite the systemically critical energy sector dominating the emissions profile, these climate institutions had no purchase over it. This situation is largely due to South A…

  • Climate institutions in Brazil: Three Decades of Building and Dismantling Climate Capacity

    Open Access•Kathryn Hochstetler•ARTICLE•Environmental Politics•2021•Cited by: 14•References: 37

    What kinds of national climate institutions can solve the governance challenges that the Paris Agreement devolves to them? This article identifies three stages of climate institutions in Brazil, a major emitter of greenhouse gases through deforestation that managed to reduce such emissions for nearly a decade. It shows that a narrow definition of climate institutions that seeks purpose-built state institutions fails to capture important dynamics …

  • South-South relations and global environmental governance: Brazilian international development cooperation

    Open Access•Kathryn Hochstetler, Cristina Yumie Aoki Inoue•ARTICLE•Revista Brasileira de Política…•2019•Cited by: 5•References: 1

    South-South relations have become increasingly relevant for understanding global environmental governance in the 21st century. This article explores the socio-environmental contributions and impacts of Brazilian South-South cooperation for international development. Case studies of its international technical cooperation and the international project finance of BNDES show a mixed picture, with environmental benefits countered by environmental har…

  • Environmental impact assessment: Evidence-based policymaking in Brazil

    Kathryn Hochstetler•ARTICLE•Contemporary Social Science•2017•Cited by: 9•References: 6

    Environmental impact assessment (EIA) procedures aim prospectively to collect evidence about the environmental impacts of economic projects and to avoid or compensate for the costs incurred. This article asks whether such procedures have been effective in Latin America after many regional countries returned to some version of the developmental state after 2000. It does so by surveying the procedural effectiveness of Latin American regulations com…

  • International Political Economy meets the unexpected: Brexit, Trump and global populism

    Jacqueline Best, Paul Bowles et al.•ARTICLE•Review of International Political…•2017•Cited by: 4

  • Tracking presidents and policies: Environmental politics from Lula to Dilma

    Kathryn Hochstetler•ARTICLE•Policy Studies•2017•Cited by: 12•References: 35

    Does the Brazilian presidential system shape environmental policy there? The comparative literature on environmental policy offers few reasons to think that it might. Most explanations of variations in the quantity and quality of environmental regulation stress levels of economic development or move outside of the nation-state to examine international processes of diffusion and convergence. Other studies look at large macrostructural differences …

  • Transnational Activist Networks and Rising Powers: Transparency and Environmental Concerns in the Brazilian National Development Bank

    Jazmin Sierra, Kathryn Hochstetler•ARTICLE•International Studies Quarterly•2017•Cited by: 4•References: 32

    This article studies how transnational advocacy networks can influence international development finance. Transnational activists shaped the World Bank's lending by increasing its transparency and limiting its socioenvironmental impacts. Developing countries can now look toward rising powers' national development banks to finance their infrastructure and energy projects. The national development banks' weak transparency and socioenvironmental sta…

  • A fragmented continent: Latin America and the global politics of climate change. By Guy Edwards and J. Timmons Roberts

    Open Access•Kathryn Hochstetler•ARTICLE•International Affairs•2016

  • Environment and Consultation in the Brazilian Democratic Developmental State

    Kathryn Hochstetler, J Ricardo Tranjan•ARTICLE•Comparative Politics•2016•Cited by: 21•References: 6

    Twenty-first century developmental projects like those of the Brazilian Workers' Party take place in a regulatory context that -at least on paper -demands new scrutiny of their environmental and community impacts.Scholars of the democratic developmental state also argue that development now requires building human capabilities, promoting sustainable development, and seeking community feedback.We examine 302 electricity projects financed by BNDES …

  • Old Ways and New Alternatives in Brazilian Politics

    Kathryn Hochstetler, Marília Oliveira•ARTICLE•Current History•2015

    Winning higher office requires building cross-party electoral coalitions at lower levels; governing requires different coalitions that may be only partially related to the electoral alliances

  • Wind and Solar Power in Brazil and China: Interests, State–Business Relations, and Policy Outcomes

    Kathryn Hochstetler, Genia Kostka•ARTICLE•Global Environmental Politics•2015•Cited by: 19•References: 6

    This article examines developments in the renewable electricity sector in Brazil and China since 2000. The two countries share many interests with respect to solar and wind power, but institutional differences in state–business relations led to different outcomes. In China, in a context of corporatist state–business relations, state interventions were more far-reaching, with the state coordinating with state-owned banks, offering large financial …

  • Responsibilities in Transition: Emerging Powers in the Climate Change Negotiations

    Kathryn Hochstetler, Manjana Milkoreit•ARTICLE•Global Governance A Review of…•2015•Cited by: 6

    The BASIC countries (Brazil, South Africa, India, and China) play an increasingly prominent role in global climate negotiations. Climate governance spotlights burden-sharing arrangements, asking countries to take on potentially costly actions to resolve a global problem, even as the benefits are generally indivisible public goods. This article examines the BASIC countries' own Joint Statements and their individual and collective submissions to mu…

  • Linking Global Trade and Human Rights

    Open Access•Saradindu Bhaduri, Sol Picciotto et al.•BOOK•Linking Global Trade and Human…•2014

    During the global economic crisis of 2008, countries around the world used national policy spaces to respond to the crisis in ways that shed new light on the possibilities for linkages between international trade and human rights. This book introduces the idea of policy space as an innovative way to reframe recent developments in global governance. It brings together a wide-ranging group of leading experts in international law, trade, human right…

  • Advances in International Environmental Politics

    Open Access•M Betsill, Michele M Betsill et al.•BOOK•Advances in International…•2014

    This book provides authoritative and up-to-date research for anyone interested in the study of international environmental politics. It demonstrates how the field of international environmental politi

  • Emerging Powers in the Climate Negotiations: Shifting Identity Conceptions

    Open Access•Kathryn Hochstetler, Manjana Milkoreit•ARTICLE•Political Research Quarterly•2014•Cited by: 20•References: 22

    The BASIC countries (Brazil, China, India, South Africa) have played a major role in recent climate negotiations. We argue that a focus on identities—both their individual national identities as emerging powers and their joint identity as the BASIC coalition of emerging powers—is useful for understanding the coalition’s negotiation stances and the larger negotiation dynamics between 2009 and 2011. BASIC countries maintain a hard defining line bet…

  • The Renewed Developmental State: The National Development Bank and the Brazil Model

    Kathryn Hochstetler, Alfred P Montero•ARTICLE•The Journal of Development Studies•2013

    This study examines how Brazil operationalised a renewed developmentalist project during the democratic period, and especially during the presidency of Lula da Silva. We use an original data set of 2,115 loans made by the Brazilian National Development Bank (BNDES) between 2002 and 2011 to show elements of both change and continuity with Brazil’s developmentalist past. Large loans continued to flow to many of Brazil’s historic large firms and ind…

  • South-South Trade and the Environment: A Brazilian Case Study

    Kathryn Hochstetler•ARTICLE•Global Environmental Politics•2012•Cited by: 3•References: 7

    As South-South trade gains new weight in global exchange patterns, will environmental protection be enhanced or endangered? Environmental economists are generally optimistic that trade will lead to greater environmental protection, but see less chance of that in South-South trade; political economists make opposite arguments on both points. This article shows that South-South trade is dominated by a small set of fourteen countries, with most Sout…

  • The G-77, Basic, and global climate governance: A new era in multilateral environmental negotiations

    Open Access•Kathryn Hochstetler, Kathryn Ann Hochstetler•ARTICLE•Revista Brasileira de Política…•2012•Cited by: 6•References: 3

    The G-77 has historically organized the participation of developing countries in multilateral environmental negotiations. This article analyses the impact of a new coalition of emerging powers - Brazil, China, India, and South Africa as BASIC - on the G-77's role in climate governance. While there are important benefits for both sides in their relationship, I argue that the G-77 is also disadvantaged in several concrete ways by the BASIC countrie…

  • Civil society and the regulatory state of the South: A commentary

    Open Access•Kathryn Hochstetler•ARTICLE•Regulation & Governance•2012•Cited by: 17•References: 8

    The basic rationale of the regulatory state is to insulate certain kinds of decisionmaking from political actors. The main purpose of this commentary is to assess the ways that members of civil society, in fact, often shadow and contest the central actors of the regulatory state, even though they are ostensibly well outside it. I offer three distinctions to help broaden and sharpen analysis of the roles and impact of civil society actors: whether…

  • Brazil and the politics of climate change: Beyond the Global Commons

    Kathryn Hochstetler, Eduardo Viola•ARTICLE•Environmental Politics•2012•Cited by: 17•References: 19

    Assessing the changing role of the emerging powers in global climate change negotiations, with special attention to Brazil, we ask why they have agreed to voluntary reductions at home without formalising those commitments in ways that might persuade other large emitters to make similar binding commitments. We argue that for very large emitters, the climate issue does not evince the ‘global commons’ logic often attributed to it. Instead, since the…

  • Climate Rights and Obligations for Emerging States: The Cases of Brazil and South Africa

    Kathryn Hochstetler•ARTICLE•Social research•2012•Cited by: 3

    Global environmental governance has been strongly oriented around a North–South axis, with rights and obligations following the two sides of the divide. The climate change regime, in particular, stressed different obligations for a set of developed countries—those historically responsible for the GHG emissions that cause climate change—and countries that retained a right to continue developing without addressing their own emissions. The rise of a…

  • In Memoriam

    Open Access•Kathryn Hochstetler•ARTICLE•Review of Policy Research•2011

  • The Politics of Environmental Licensing: Energy Projects of the Past and Future in Brazil

    Open Access•Kathryn Hochstetler•ARTICLE•Studies in Comparative…•2011•Cited by: 15•References: 23

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  • The Sovereign Limits of Global Civil Society: A Comparison of NGO Participation in UN World Conferences on the Environment, Human Rights, and Women

    Open Access•Ann Marie Clark, E J Friedman et al.•ARTICLE•World Politics•1998•Cited by: 117•References: 4

    The increased visibility of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and social movements at the international level invites continuing evaluation of the extent and significance of the role they now play in world politics. While the presence of such new actors is easily demonstrated, international relations scholars have debated their significance. The authors argue that the concept of global civil society sets a more demanding standard for the evalu…

  • Rethinking Presidentialism: Challenges and Presidential Falls in South America

    Kathryn Hochstetler•ARTICLE•Comparative Politics•2006•Cited by: 84•References: 5

    Since the South American countries returned to civilian government in the 1970s and 1980s, twenty-three percent of their elected presidents have been forced to leave office before the end of their terms. This striking rate of early presidential exits has received little systematic attention, although it should be central in debates about the quality of democracy and possible instability in presidential systems. Why and how do South Americans dema…

  • Assessing the Third Transition in Latin American Democratization: Representational Regimes and Civil Society in Argentina and Brazil

    E J Friedman, Kathryn Hochstetler•ARTICLE•Comparative Politics•2002•Cited by: 33•References: 9

    In the last two decades most Latin American countries have made the political transition to formal liberal democracy.With a few notable exceptions, the threat of authoritarian reversals has diminished.But although democratic stability does not seem to be imminently imperiled, the quality of the democracies in the region often seems quite low.Instead of consolidated democracies, observers have found "hybrid" or "delegative" regimes, run on the pri…

  • Failed Presidencies: Identifying and Explaining a South American Anomaly

    Open Access•Kathryn Hochstetler, Margaret E Edwards•ARTICLE•Journal of Politics in Latin…•2009•Cited by: 23•References: 17

    Are presidential democracies inherently unstable and prone to breakdown? Recent work on Latin America suggests that the region has seen the emergence of a new kind of instability, where individual presidents do not manage to stay in office to the end of their terms, but the regime itself continues. This article places the Latin American experiences in a global context, and finds that the Latin American literature helps to predict the fates of pre…

  • Environment and Consultation in the Brazilian Democratic Developmental State

    Kathryn Hochstetler, J Ricardo Tranjan•ARTICLE•Comparative Politics•2016•Cited by: 21•References: 6

    Twenty-first century developmental projects like those of the Brazilian Workers' Party take place in a regulatory context that -at least on paper -demands new scrutiny of their environmental and community impacts.Scholars of the democratic developmental state also argue that development now requires building human capabilities, promoting sustainable development, and seeking community feedback.We examine 302 electricity projects financed by BNDES …

  • Emerging Powers in the Climate Negotiations: Shifting Identity Conceptions

    Open Access•Kathryn Hochstetler, Manjana Milkoreit•ARTICLE•Political Research Quarterly•2014•Cited by: 20•References: 22

    The BASIC countries (Brazil, China, India, South Africa) have played a major role in recent climate negotiations. We argue that a focus on identities—both their individual national identities as emerging powers and their joint identity as the BASIC coalition of emerging powers—is useful for understanding the coalition’s negotiation stances and the larger negotiation dynamics between 2009 and 2011. BASIC countries maintain a hard defining line bet…

  • Wind and Solar Power in Brazil and China: Interests, State–Business Relations, and Policy Outcomes

    Kathryn Hochstetler, Genia Kostka•ARTICLE•Global Environmental Politics•2015•Cited by: 19•References: 6

    This article examines developments in the renewable electricity sector in Brazil and China since 2000. The two countries share many interests with respect to solar and wind power, but institutional differences in state–business relations led to different outcomes. In China, in a context of corporatist state–business relations, state interventions were more far-reaching, with the state coordinating with state-owned banks, offering large financial …

  • Crisis and Rapid Reequilibration: The Consequences of Presidential Challenge and Failure in Latin America

    Kathryn Hochstetler, David Samuels•ARTICLE•Comparative Politics•2011•Cited by: 19

  • Civil society and the regulatory state of the South: A commentary

    Open Access•Kathryn Hochstetler•ARTICLE•Regulation & Governance•2012•Cited by: 17•References: 8

    The basic rationale of the regulatory state is to insulate certain kinds of decisionmaking from political actors. The main purpose of this commentary is to assess the ways that members of civil society, in fact, often shadow and contest the central actors of the regulatory state, even though they are ostensibly well outside it. I offer three distinctions to help broaden and sharpen analysis of the roles and impact of civil society actors: whether…

  • Brazil and the politics of climate change: Beyond the Global Commons

    Kathryn Hochstetler, Eduardo Viola•ARTICLE•Environmental Politics•2012•Cited by: 17•References: 19

    Assessing the changing role of the emerging powers in global climate change negotiations, with special attention to Brazil, we ask why they have agreed to voluntary reductions at home without formalising those commitments in ways that might persuade other large emitters to make similar binding commitments. We argue that for very large emitters, the climate issue does not evince the ‘global commons’ logic often attributed to it. Instead, since the…

  • The Politics of Environmental Licensing: Energy Projects of the Past and Future in Brazil

    Open Access•Kathryn Hochstetler•ARTICLE•Studies in Comparative…•2011•Cited by: 15•References: 23

  • Climate institutions in Brazil: Three Decades of Building and Dismantling Climate Capacity

    Open Access•Kathryn Hochstetler•ARTICLE•Environmental Politics•2021•Cited by: 14•References: 37

    What kinds of national climate institutions can solve the governance challenges that the Paris Agreement devolves to them? This article identifies three stages of climate institutions in Brazil, a major emitter of greenhouse gases through deforestation that managed to reduce such emissions for nearly a decade. It shows that a narrow definition of climate institutions that seeks purpose-built state institutions fails to capture important dynamics …

  • Global Environmentalism and Local Politics: Transnational Advocacy Networks in Brazil, Ecuador, and India

    Open Access•Kathryn Hochstetler•ARTICLE•Perspectives on Politics•2004•Cited by: 14

    Global Environmentalism and Local Politics: Transnational Advocacy Networks in Brazil, Ecuador, and India. By Maria Guadalupe Moog Rodrigues. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2004. 195p. $57.50 cloth, $18.95 paper. This book brings a new angle to the study of transnational advocacy networks (TANs) by making local choices, priorities, and outcomes the central focus of its analysis. TANs link actors at local, national, and international …

  • Can Civil Society Organizations Solve the Crisis of Partisan Representation in Latin America

    Open Access•Kathryn Hochstetler, E J Friedman•ARTICLE•Latin American Politics and Society•2008•Cited by: 13•References: 31

    This article takes up the question of whether civil society organizations (CSOs) can and do act as mechanisms of representation in times of party crisis. It looks at recent representation practices in Argentina, Bolivia, and Brazil, three countries where political parties have experienced sharp crises after several decades of mixed reviews for their party systems. At such moments, any replacement of parties by CSOs should be especially apparent. …

  • Tracking presidents and policies: Environmental politics from Lula to Dilma

    Kathryn Hochstetler•ARTICLE•Policy Studies•2017•Cited by: 12•References: 35

    Does the Brazilian presidential system shape environmental policy there? The comparative literature on environmental policy offers few reasons to think that it might. Most explanations of variations in the quantity and quality of environmental regulation stress levels of economic development or move outside of the nation-state to examine international processes of diffusion and convergence. Other studies look at large macrostructural differences …

  • Sovereignty in the Balance: Claims and Bargains at the UN Conferences on the Environment, Human Rights, and Women

    Kathryn Hochstetler, Ann Marie Clark et al.•ARTICLE•International Studies Quarterly•2000•Cited by: 12•References: 7

    States vary the content and subject matter of their claims to sovereignty. In an analysis of when states invoked sovereignty at recent UN World Conferences on the environment (1992), human rights (1993), and women (1995), the authors revise and extend Litfin's (1997) notion of bargains among components of sovereignty. At the conferences, states invoked sovereignty in debates over cultural and religious values, economics, and increased internation…

  • After the Boomerang: Environmental Movements and Politics in the La Plata River Basin

    Kathryn Hochstetler•ARTICLE•Global Environmental Politics•2002•Cited by: 11•References: 4

    This article focuses on one common transnational NGO strategy, the boomerang strategy. In this strategy, Southern NGOs seek international allies to help them pressure their states from outside. The article uses a case study of a transnational mobilization against a water superhighway or “Hidrovia” in the La Plata River basin in South America to develop arguments about the long term impacts of throws of the boomerang. I argue that what happens aft…

  • Environmental impact assessment: Evidence-based policymaking in Brazil

    Kathryn Hochstetler•ARTICLE•Contemporary Social Science•2017•Cited by: 9•References: 6

    Environmental impact assessment (EIA) procedures aim prospectively to collect evidence about the environmental impacts of economic projects and to avoid or compensate for the costs incurred. This article asks whether such procedures have been effective in Latin America after many regional countries returned to some version of the developmental state after 2000. It does so by surveying the procedural effectiveness of Latin American regulations com…

  • Responsibilities in Transition: Emerging Powers in the Climate Change Negotiations

    Kathryn Hochstetler, Manjana Milkoreit•ARTICLE•Global Governance A Review of…•2015•Cited by: 6

    The BASIC countries (Brazil, South Africa, India, and China) play an increasingly prominent role in global climate negotiations. Climate governance spotlights burden-sharing arrangements, asking countries to take on potentially costly actions to resolve a global problem, even as the benefits are generally indivisible public goods. This article examines the BASIC countries' own Joint Statements and their individual and collective submissions to mu…

  • The G-77, Basic, and global climate governance: A new era in multilateral environmental negotiations

    Open Access•Kathryn Hochstetler, Kathryn Ann Hochstetler•ARTICLE•Revista Brasileira de Política…•2012•Cited by: 6•References: 3

    The G-77 has historically organized the participation of developing countries in multilateral environmental negotiations. This article analyses the impact of a new coalition of emerging powers - Brazil, China, India, and South Africa as BASIC - on the G-77's role in climate governance. While there are important benefits for both sides in their relationship, I argue that the G-77 is also disadvantaged in several concrete ways by the BASIC countrie…

  • The Fates of Presidents in Post-Transition Latin America: From Democratic Breakdown to Impeachment to Presidential Breakdown

    Open Access•Kathryn Hochstetler•ARTICLE•Journal of Politics in Latin…•2011•Cited by: 6•References: 9

    The books discussed in this review essay all investigate the same basic phenomenon: presidents who do not complete their terms in office, but who are removed without open democratic breakdown. The essay traces the conceptual frameworks used, as they shifted from impeachment to the broader presidential breakdown. It evaluates explanations of the causes of presidential breakdown, and makes suggestions for further research on how the presidential re…

  • Institutionalising decarbonisation in South Africa: Navigating Climate Mitigation and Socio-Economic Transformation

    Open Access•Emily Tyler, Kathryn Hochstetler•ARTICLE•Environmental Politics•2021•Cited by: 5•References: 18

    Strong climate institutional governance is necessary for countries to meet their international climate mitigation commitments. This article shows that while South Africa steadily created climate institutions up to 2011, these failed to take hold in the following years. Also, despite the systemically critical energy sector dominating the emissions profile, these climate institutions had no purchase over it. This situation is largely due to South A…

  • South-South relations and global environmental governance: Brazilian international development cooperation

    Open Access•Kathryn Hochstetler, Cristina Yumie Aoki Inoue•ARTICLE•Revista Brasileira de Política…•2019•Cited by: 5•References: 1

    South-South relations have become increasingly relevant for understanding global environmental governance in the 21st century. This article explores the socio-environmental contributions and impacts of Brazilian South-South cooperation for international development. Case studies of its international technical cooperation and the international project finance of BNDES show a mixed picture, with environmental benefits countered by environmental har…

  • Latin American environmentalism: Comparative views

    Open Access•Catherine A Christen, Catherine Christen et al.•ARTICLE•Studies in Comparative…•1998•Cited by: 5•References: 8

  • International Political Economy meets the unexpected: Brexit, Trump and global populism

    Jacqueline Best, Paul Bowles et al.•ARTICLE•Review of International Political…•2017•Cited by: 4

  • Latin American environmentalism: Comparative views

    Open Access•Catherine A Christen, Catherine Christen et al.•ARTICLE•Studies in Comparative…•1998•Cited by: 5•References: 8

  • The Sovereign Limits of Global Civil Society: A Comparison of NGO Participation in UN World Conferences on the Environment, Human Rights, and Women

    Open Access•Ann Marie Clark, E J Friedman et al.•ARTICLE•World Politics•1998•Cited by: 117•References: 4

    The increased visibility of nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) and social movements at the international level invites continuing evaluation of the extent and significance of the role they now play in world politics. While the presence of such new actors is easily demonstrated, international relations scholars have debated their significance. The authors argue that the concept of global civil society sets a more demanding standard for the evalu…

  • Sovereignty in the Balance: Claims and Bargains at the UN Conferences on the Environment, Human Rights, and Women

    Kathryn Hochstetler, Ann Marie Clark et al.•ARTICLE•International Studies Quarterly•2000•Cited by: 12•References: 7

    States vary the content and subject matter of their claims to sovereignty. In an analysis of when states invoked sovereignty at recent UN World Conferences on the environment (1992), human rights (1993), and women (1995), the authors revise and extend Litfin's (1997) notion of bargains among components of sovereignty. At the conferences, states invoked sovereignty in debates over cultural and religious values, economics, and increased internation…

  • Sovereign Limits and Regional Opportunities for Global Civil Society in Latin America

    Open Access•E J Friedman, Kathryn Hochstetler et al.•ARTICLE•Latin American Research Review•2001

    In this article, we evaluate whether Latin American participation in international arenas reinforces traditional divides between state and society in global politics or transforms state-society relations in ways compatible with the concept of global civil society. We examine the participation and interaction of Latin American nongovernmental organizations and states at three recent United Nations conferences: the 1992 UN Conference on Environment…

  • Ronie García-Johnson. Exporting Environmentalism: U.S. Multinational Chemical Corporations in Brazil and Mexico. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2000. Notes, tables, figures, bibliography, index, 282 pages; har…

    Open Access•Kathryn Hochstetler•ARTICLE•Latin American Politics and Society•2001

    Ronie García-Johnson. Exporting Environmentalism: U.S. Multinational Chemical Corporations in Brazil and Mexico. Cambridge: MIT Press, 2000. Notes, tables, figures, bibliography, index, 282 pages; hardcover 20. - Volume 43 Issue 1

  • Environmentalism: A Global History, by Ramachandra Guha. New York: Longman (2000). Reviewed by Kathryn Hochstetler

    Open Access•Kathryn Hochstetler, Stanislav Shmelev•ARTICLE•Journal of Political Ecology•2001•References: 2

  • Exporting Environmentalism: U.S. Multinational Chemical Corporations in Brazil and Mexico

    Open Access•Kathryn Hochstetler•REVIEW•Latin American Politics and Society•2001

    A great deal of research has focused on the role of governments, nongovernmental organizations, and advocacy groups in promoting environmental ideologies. Researchers and activists have generally assumed antienvironmental and antiregulatory stances on the part of corporations. Exporting Environmentalism is the first book to examine industry's transnational promotion of environmental ideas and practices. The book also challenges and complements ot…

  • After the Boomerang: Environmental Movements and Politics in the La Plata River Basin

    Kathryn Hochstetler•ARTICLE•Global Environmental Politics•2002•Cited by: 11•References: 4

    This article focuses on one common transnational NGO strategy, the boomerang strategy. In this strategy, Southern NGOs seek international allies to help them pressure their states from outside. The article uses a case study of a transnational mobilization against a water superhighway or “Hidrovia” in the La Plata River basin in South America to develop arguments about the long term impacts of throws of the boomerang. I argue that what happens aft…

  • Assessing the Third Transition in Latin American Democratization: Representational Regimes and Civil Society in Argentina and Brazil

    E J Friedman, Kathryn Hochstetler•ARTICLE•Comparative Politics•2002•Cited by: 33•References: 9

    In the last two decades most Latin American countries have made the political transition to formal liberal democracy.With a few notable exceptions, the threat of authoritarian reversals has diminished.But although democratic stability does not seem to be imminently imperiled, the quality of the democracies in the region often seems quite low.Instead of consolidated democracies, observers have found "hybrid" or "delegative" regimes, run on the pri…

  • Fading Green? Environmental Politics in the Mercosur Free Trade Agreement

    Open Access•Kathryn Hochstetler•ARTICLE•Latin American Politics and Society•2003•Cited by: 2•References: 14

    This article explores the role of environmental concerns in free trade areas made up entirely of developing countries. It surveys the environmental institutions of Mercosur, the Common Market of South America, and its member states. It also presents a case study of the recently terminated negotiations over a regional environmental legal instrument as an example of collective environmental decisionmaking. The article concludes that all the environ…

  • Global Environmentalism and Local Politics: Transnational Advocacy Networks in Brazil, Ecuador, and India

    Open Access•Kathryn Hochstetler•ARTICLE•Perspectives on Politics•2004•Cited by: 14

    Global Environmentalism and Local Politics: Transnational Advocacy Networks in Brazil, Ecuador, and India. By Maria Guadalupe Moog Rodrigues. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2004. 195p. $57.50 cloth, $18.95 paper. This book brings a new angle to the study of transnational advocacy networks (TANs) by making local choices, priorities, and outcomes the central focus of its analysis. TANs link actors at local, national, and international …

  • Palgrave Advances in International Environmental Politics

    Open Access•M Betsill, Michele M Betsill et al.•BOOK•Palgrave Advances in International…•2006

    Palgrave Advances in International Environmental Politics provides a state of the art review of the major theoretical approaches and substantive debates of the field. The first section reviews the his

  • Dams and Development: Transnational Struggles for Water and Power

    Open Access•Kathryn Hochstetler•ARTICLE•Perspectives on Politics•2006

    Dams and Development: Transnational Struggles for Water and Power. By Sanjeev Khagram. Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 2004. 270p. $45.00 cloth, $21.95 paper. This is a strong example of recent work in political science that mines the boundary of comparative politics and international relations to identify the complex sources of political change. Sanjeev Khagram draws on an intensive case study of the Narmada Dam projects in India an…

  • Rethinking Presidentialism: Challenges and Presidential Falls in South America

    Kathryn Hochstetler•ARTICLE•Comparative Politics•2006•Cited by: 84•References: 5

    Since the South American countries returned to civilian government in the 1970s and 1980s, twenty-three percent of their elected presidents have been forced to leave office before the end of their terms. This striking rate of early presidential exits has received little systematic attention, although it should be central in debates about the quality of democracy and possible instability in presidential systems. Why and how do South Americans dema…

  • Greening Brazil: Environmental Activism in State and Society

    Open Access•Kathryn Hochstetler, Margaret E Keck•BOOK•Greening Brazil•2007

  • Repensando o presidencialismo: Contestações e quedas de presidentes na América do Sul

    Open Access•Kathryn Hochstetler•ARTICLE•Lua Nova Revista de Cultura e…•2007•Cited by: 4•References: 28

    A partir de 1978, 40% dos presidentes eleitos na América do Sul têm sido contestados por civis, que tentaram fazêlos deixar o cargo antes do tempo. Por meio de impeachments e de renúncias, caíram 23% - que foram substituídos por civis. Após um exame do conjunto completo de presidências, verifica-se que os presidentes contestados tendiam mais a seguir políticas neoliberais, a estarem pessoalmente implicados em escândalos e a não terem maioria no C…

  • Repensando el presidencialismo: Desafíos y caídas presidenciales en el Cono Sur

    Open Access•Kathryn Hochstetler•ARTICLE•AMÉRICA LATINA HOY•2008•Cited by: 1

    Desde 1978, el 40% de los presidentes electos en Sudamérica han sido desafiados por actores civiles que intentaron forzarlos a dejar sus cargos antes de tiempo. A través del juicio político(impeachment) y de renuncias, 23% han caído y han sido reemplazados por civiles. Los presidentes desafiados fueron más proclives a seguir políticas neoliberales, a estar personalmente implicados en escándalos y a carecer de mayoría parlamentaria en relación a s…

  • Representação, partidos e sociedade civil na Argentina e no Brasil

    Open Access•Kathryn Hochstetler, Kathryn Hoschstetler et al.•ARTICLE•Caderno CRH•2008•Cited by: 3•References: 40

    Este artigo questiona se as organizações da sociedade civil (OSCs) podem e cumprem o papel de exercer uma função de representação em tempos de crise dos partidos políticos. Para tanto, ele examina práticas recentes de representação no Brasil e na Argentina, dois países onde os partidos políticos têm experimentado crises agudas depois de décadas de avaliações ambíguas a respeito de seus sistemas partidários. Em tais momentos, qualquer substituição…

  • Can Civil Society Organizations Solve the Crisis of Partisan Representation in Latin America

    Open Access•Kathryn Hochstetler, E J Friedman•ARTICLE•Latin American Politics and Society•2008•Cited by: 13•References: 31

    This article takes up the question of whether civil society organizations (CSOs) can and do act as mechanisms of representation in times of party crisis. It looks at recent representation practices in Argentina, Bolivia, and Brazil, three countries where political parties have experienced sharp crises after several decades of mixed reviews for their party systems. At such moments, any replacement of parties by CSOs should be especially apparent. …

  • Failed Presidencies: Identifying and Explaining a South American Anomaly

    Open Access•Kathryn Hochstetler, Margaret E Edwards•ARTICLE•Journal of Politics in Latin…•2009•Cited by: 23•References: 17

    Are presidential democracies inherently unstable and prone to breakdown? Recent work on Latin America suggests that the region has seen the emergence of a new kind of instability, where individual presidents do not manage to stay in office to the end of their terms, but the regime itself continues. This article places the Latin American experiences in a global context, and finds that the Latin American literature helps to predict the fates of pre…

  • In Memoriam

    Open Access•Kathryn Hochstetler•ARTICLE•Review of Policy Research•2011

  • The Politics of Environmental Licensing: Energy Projects of the Past and Future in Brazil

    Open Access•Kathryn Hochstetler•ARTICLE•Studies in Comparative…•2011•Cited by: 15•References: 23

  • The Fates of Presidents in Post-Transition Latin America: From Democratic Breakdown to Impeachment to Presidential Breakdown

    Open Access•Kathryn Hochstetler•ARTICLE•Journal of Politics in Latin…•2011•Cited by: 6•References: 9

    The books discussed in this review essay all investigate the same basic phenomenon: presidents who do not complete their terms in office, but who are removed without open democratic breakdown. The essay traces the conceptual frameworks used, as they shifted from impeachment to the broader presidential breakdown. It evaluates explanations of the causes of presidential breakdown, and makes suggestions for further research on how the presidential re…

  • Crisis and Rapid Reequilibration: The Consequences of Presidential Challenge and Failure in Latin America

    Kathryn Hochstetler, David Samuels•ARTICLE•Comparative Politics•2011•Cited by: 19

  • South-South Trade and the Environment: A Brazilian Case Study

    Kathryn Hochstetler•ARTICLE•Global Environmental Politics•2012•Cited by: 3•References: 7

    As South-South trade gains new weight in global exchange patterns, will environmental protection be enhanced or endangered? Environmental economists are generally optimistic that trade will lead to greater environmental protection, but see less chance of that in South-South trade; political economists make opposite arguments on both points. This article shows that South-South trade is dominated by a small set of fourteen countries, with most Sout…

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