拉丁美洲政治和社会出版了拉丁美洲最高质量的原始社会科学奖学金。编委会由美国、拉丁美洲和欧洲的主要学者组成，致力于挑战现行的正统观念，并在全球化世界中促进对美洲国家、社会、经济和国际关系的创新理论和方法论观点。除了传统的研究文章外，拉丁美洲政治和社会还包括评论评论文章，这些文章调查了最近拉丁美洲研究文献中的主要主题。“政策问题”一节对重大政策相关性的重大问题提出了不同的观点，而研究笔记则是解决数据、理论和方法问题的捷径。书评部分提供对个别书籍的评论。
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.
