ABSTRACT
This chapter presents research in progress and at various stages of completion. Some of the items included derive from research proposals presently being prepared; some involve future research undertakings that are quite vague in the author’s mind. In the studies included to the point, stress has been placed on the historical, theoretical, political-cultural, and sociopolitical aspects of Latin American development, employing—broadly speaking—a corporatist framework. Latin America has frequently been assigned the label of “underdeveloped,” not only in terms of various economic indices, where the measures are fairly clear and precise, but in social, political, cultural, psychological, even moral terms as well, where the measures are more ambiguous and culture-bound. The study of the state and state-society relations in Latin America has received increasing attention, but the existent studies have left some important gaps in our knowledge and they have seldom been explicitly policy-relevant.
