Democracy in Latin America : between hope and despair

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Label

Democracy in Latin America : between hope and despair

Title remainder

between hope and despair

Statement of responsibility

Ignacio Walker ; translated by Krystin Krause, Holly Bird, and Scott Mainwaring

Creator

• Walker, Ignacio

Contributor

• Bird, Holly
• Krause, Krystin
• Mainwaring, Scott, 1954-

Subject

• Democracy
• Democracy -- Latin America
• Governance
• Lateinamerika
• Latin America
• Latin America -- Politics and government
• Politics and government
• Politisches System
• Repräsentative Demokratie
• POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Political Ideologies | Democracy

Language

• eng
• spa
• eng

Summary

"In 2009, Ignacio Walker--scholar, politician, and one of Latin America's leading public intellectuals--published La Democracia en America Latina. Now available in English, with a new prologue, and significantly revised and updated for an English-speaking audience, Democracy in Latin America: Between Hope and Despair contributes to the necessary and urgent task of exploring both the possibilities and difficulties of establishing a stable democracy in Latin America. Walker argues that, throughout the past century, Latin American history has been marked by the search for responses or alternatives to the crisis of oligarchic rule and the struggle to replace the oligarchic order with a democratic one. After reviewing some of the principal theories of democracy based on an analysis of the interactions of political, economic, and social factors, Walker maintains that it is primarily the actors, institutions, and public policies--not structural determinants--that create progress or regression in Latin American democracy. Democracy in Latin America is organized by eight themes: independence and the establishment of democracy; the economic shift from exports to import substitution; democratic breakdowns, transitions, and consolidation; the double transition to democracy and trade liberalization in the 1980s and 1990s; institutions, democratic governability, and neopopulism; presidentialism and parliamentarism; the "new social question"; and the need for democracy of institutions. Walker systematically addresses the abundant literature on democracy in Latin America, combining a scholarly perspective with real world experience that enhances the understanding of political and economic development in the region."--Publisher's website

Member of

• Ebook Central Academic Complete

Cataloging source

E7B

Dewey number

321.8098

Index

index present

LC call number

JL966

LC item number

.W35 2013eb

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

• dictionaries
• bibliography