Intermediation and Representation in Latin America

1. Introduction: Beyond Elections: Representation Circuits and Political Intermediation
Gisela Zaremberg, Adrián Gurza Lavalle, Valeria Guarneros-Meza

2. Political Intermediation and Public Policy in Brazil: Councils and Conferences in the Policy Spheres of Health and Women’s Rights
Wagner Melo Romão, Adrián Gurza Lavalle, Gisela Zaremberg

3. Establishing Intermediaries in Developing Mechanisms of Citizen Participation in La Silsa, Caracas, Venezuela
Graham Martin

4. Political Rights and Intermediation: Municipal Decentralization and Democratic Innovation in Uruguay
Martín Freigedo Peláez

5. Bolivia: “Social Control” as the Fourth State Power 1994–2015
Moira Zuazo

6. Citizen Security in Mexico: Examining Municipal Bureaucracy from the View of the Intermediation–Representation Debate
Valeria Guarneros-Meza

7. Conflicts of Representation and Redistribution in the Mexican Labour World
Graciela Bensusán, Marta Subiñas

8. The Political–Legal Representation Circuit of Human Rights Politics
Karina Ansolabehere, Paula Valle Bethencourt

9. Conclusions and Future Research Agenda
Gisela Zaremberg, Adrián Gurza Lavalle, Valeria Guarneros-Meza

Keywords: Political Science and International Relations, Latin American Politics, Democracy, Social Justice, Equality and Human Rights, Comparative Politics, Electoral Politics, Regionalism