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    Beyond the Presidency: The Power of Congress in Latin America
    (GESIS - Leibniz Institute for the Social Sciences, 2026-01-01) Maríana Llanos; Milagros Campos; Magna Inácio; German Institute for Global and Area Studies; Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú; Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais
    Despite times of democratic backsliding, executive power is not on the rise everywhere. Across Latin America, congresses have been reshaping how presidentialism operates, often utilising significant decision-making authority. Yet these dynamics vary, resulting in diverse legislative trajectories and balances of power across countries. Despite low public trust and high party fragmentation, several legislatures have pursued institutional change by reshaping their own structures, revising rules to rebalance power vis-à-vis the executive, or attempting revisions but ultimately retreating in the face of presidential power. On 12 April Peruvians elect a president and a new Congress amid pronounced presidential instability. The legislature has reasserted itself by passing an important reform reintroducing bicameralism - a shift intended to increase stability and reduce fragmentation, but which may create new problems. In October, Brazil will carry out presidential and congressional elections. The incoming president will find a Congress grown more resolute over recent years - particularly in budgetary matters. This institutional change reflects increasing executive-legislative competition and a shift towards more power-sharing. In October 2023 Argentine voters elected Javier Milei, a political outsider with a radical economic reform agenda but meagre congressional support. Early signs of legislative pushback, including rule-change attempts, faded after 2025 midterm success strengthened presidential leverage over Congress.
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    Innovations de transports et mobilité dans les villes des Suds, source d'inspiration pour les Nords. Rapport Amérique Latine
    (Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, 2025-01-01) Jérémy Robert; Institut Français; Université Rennes 2; Institut de Recherche pour le Développement; Université de Rennes; Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
    Faire face aux enjeux de la transition écologique et sociale des transports et de la mobilité impose de penser des changements plus ou moins radicaux dans la façon de planifier et d'habiter les territoires, de gérer l'offre de transports et d'organiser les mobilités. Dans la continuité de la réflexion engagée par le Forum Vies Mobiles dans sa rubrique « Carnet des Suds » , cette étude propose d'explorer dans quelle mesure les expériences dans les Suds peuvent être source d'inspiration dans les Nords, en particulier dans le contexte français. Elle s'intéresse aux innovations en termes d'offre de transport et de mobilité ; d'urbanisme ; et de participation citoyenne et d'inclusion. Cinq études de cas sont développées et montrent l'inventivité des solutions mises en œuvre en Amérique Latine pour faire face à des difficultés structurelles dans un contexte de ressources limitées.
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    Social Network Analysis of Coffee Cooperatives for Sustainable Development: A Multi-Level Conceptual Framework
    (Wiley, 2026-01-01) Anna Ujwary‐Gil; Anna Florek‐Paszkowska; Institute of Psychology; Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú
    ABSTRACT Coffee cooperatives in Latin America, Africa, and Southeast Asia support smallholders and shape SDG‐relevant outcomes, yet existing studies on cooperatives essentially treat relationships as context and hardly measure network structures. For the first time, the review synthesizes seven thematic areas spanning the previous five decades (1974–2024): performance, governance, certification, social capital, gender inclusion, innovation, and value chains. Building on this synthesis, a multi‐level social network analysis framework is proposed that defines three analytical boundaries (within cooperatives, between cooperatives, and across the broader coffee ecosystem) and links each boundary to whole‐network and node‐level metrics. The framework translates under‐measured mechanisms (coordination, brokerage, segmentation, dependency, and closure) into tie definitions, metric choices (e.g., density, centralization, modularity, clustering/transitivity; degree, betweenness, eigenvector or closeness centralities; structural hole), and model‐selection guidance for future empirical studies. This roadmap enables comparable empirical tests of how network structures and cooperatives' positions condition Sustainable Development in coffee systems.
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    Enhancing soil moisture and L–VOD retrievals over tropical forests by integrating spatio-temporal dynamic vegetation scattering albedo into SMOS-IC
    (RELX Group (Netherlands), 2025-01-01) Yuqing Liu; Xiaojun Li; Philippe Ciais; Eric Cosio; Frédéric Frappart; Ardeshir Ebtehaj; Clément Albergel; Xiangzhuo Liu; Mengjia Wang; Liang Wan; Jean‐Pierre Wigneron; Université Paris-Saclay; Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú; European Space Agency; Zhengzhou University
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    The Urban Learning Premium - Evidence from Peru
    (RELX Group (Netherlands), 2025-01-01) Sonja Fagernäs; Panu Pelkonen; Juan del Pozo Segura; University of Sussex; Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú

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