x, 324 p. : 24 cm, Includes bibliographical references (p. 291-310) and index, Ethnic identity and politics in the Central Andes : the cases of Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru / Xavier Albó -- Linking movement and electoral politics : Ecuador's indigenous movement and the rise of Pachakutik / Jennifer Collins -- Engendering Andean politics : the paradoxes of women's movements in neoliberal Ecuador and Bolivia / Amy Lind -- Dismembering and remembering the nation : the semantics of political violence in Venezuela / Fernando Coronil and Julie Skurski -- State, esprit mafioso, and armed conflict in Colombia / Ricardo Vargas -- Collateral damage : the U.S. "War on Drugs" and its impact on democracy in the Andes / Coletta A. Youngers -- State, elites, and the response to insurgency : some preliminary comparisons between Colombia and Peru / Philip Mauceri -- Human rights in the Andes : the defensoría del pueblo / Mark Ungar -- State building, state dismantling, and financial crises in Ecuador / Liisa L. North -- The struggle for hegemony in Venezuela : poverty, popular protest, and the future of democracy / Margarita López Maya and Luis E. Lander -- The tense relationship between democracy and violence in Colombia, 1974-2001 / Francisco Gutiérrez Sanin and Luisa Ramírez Rueda -- State-making against democracy : the case of Fujimori's Peru / Jo-Marie Burt