Latin American Politics and Society

Latin American Politics and Society is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal of Latin American studies. It is published by Cambridge University Press on behalf of the Center for Latin American Studies of the University of Miami and the editor-in-chief is Alfred P. Montero (Carleton College).

History
The journal was established in 1959 as the Journal of Inter-American Studies. In 1970, the journal changed its title to the Journal of Interamerican Studies and World Affairs, obtaining its current name in 2001.

Abstracting and indexing
The journal is abstracted and indexed in: • EBSCO databases

• EconLit

• GEOBASE

• International Bibliography of the Social Sciences

• ProQuest databases

• Scopus

• Social Sciences Citation Index According to the Journal Citation Reports, the journal has a 2020 impact factor of 1.255.