拉丁美洲政治和社會出版了拉丁美洲最高質量的原始社會科學獎學金。編委會由美國、拉丁美洲和歐洲的主要學者組成，致力于挑戰現行的正統觀念，并在全球化世界中促進對美洲國家、社會、經濟和國際關系的創新理論和方法論觀點。除了傳統的研究文章外，拉丁美洲政治和社會還包括評論評論文章，這些文章調查了最近拉丁美洲研究文獻中的主要主題。“政策問題”一節對重大政策相關性的重大問題提出了不同的觀點，而研究筆記則是解決數據、理論和方法問題的捷徑。書評部分提供對個別書籍的評論。

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.