拉丁美洲政治和社會(huì)出版了拉丁美洲最高質(zhì)量的原始社會(huì)科學(xué)獎(jiǎng)學(xué)金。編委會(huì)由美國(guó)、拉丁美洲和歐洲的主要學(xué)者組成，致力于挑戰(zhàn)現(xiàn)行的正統(tǒng)觀念，并在全球化世界中促進(jìn)對(duì)美洲國(guó)家、社會(huì)、經(jīng)濟(jì)和國(guó)際關(guān)系的創(chuàng)新理論和方法論觀點(diǎn)。除了傳統(tǒng)的研究文章外，拉丁美洲政治和社會(huì)還包括評(píng)論評(píng)論文章，這些文章調(diào)查了最近拉丁美洲研究文獻(xiàn)中的主要主題。“政策問題”一節(jié)對(duì)重大政策相關(guān)性的重大問題提出了不同的觀點(diǎn)，而研究筆記則是解決數(shù)據(jù)、理論和方法問題的捷徑。書評(píng)部分提供對(duì)個(gè)別書籍的評(píng)論。

Latin American Politics and Society publishes the highest-quality original social science scholarship on Latin America. The Editorial Board, comprising leading U.S., Latin American, and European scholars, is dedicated to challenging prevailing orthodoxies and promoting innovative theoretical and methodological perspectives on the states, societies, economies, and international relations of the Americas in a globalizing world. In addition to its traditional research articles, Latin American Politics and Society includes Critical Debates—review essays that survey major themes in recent Latin American studies literature. The Policy Issues section presents contending perspectives on major issues of significant policy relevance, and Research Notes is an outlet for shorter pieces with questions of data, theory, and method. The Book Review section provides critiques individual books.