Democracies And Dictatorships In Latin America

Author : Scott Mainwaring,Aníbal Pérez-Liñán
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2014-01-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781107433632

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Democracies and Dictatorships in Latin America by Scott Mainwaring,Aníbal Pérez-Liñán Pdf

This book presents a new theory for why political regimes emerge, and why they subsequently survive or break down. It then analyzes the emergence, survival and fall of democracies and dictatorships in Latin America since 1900. Scott Mainwaring and Aníbal Pérez-Liñán argue for a theoretical approach situated between long-term structural and cultural explanations and short-term explanations that look at the decisions of specific leaders. They focus on the political preferences of powerful actors - the degree to which they embrace democracy as an intrinsically desirable end and their policy radicalism - to explain regime outcomes. They also demonstrate that transnational forces and influences are crucial to understand regional waves of democratization. Based on extensive research into the political histories of all twenty Latin American countries, this book offers the first extended analysis of regime emergence, survival and failure for all of Latin America over a long period of time.

Author : Thomas Draper
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Civil rights
ISBN : UVA:X000395344

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Democracy and Dictatorship in Latin America by Thomas Draper Pdf

Author : Robert G. Wesson
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038089194

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Democracy in Latin America by Robert G. Wesson Pdf

Author : Jeffrey Klaiber
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 337 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2009-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781606089477

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The Church, Dictatorships, and Democracy in Latin America by Jeffrey Klaiber Pdf

No book in any language equals The Church, Dictatorships, and Democracy in Latin America for its comparative breadth. Historians, social scientists, and general readers will cull from it the conditions needed for the church to play a positive and creative role in furthering human rights and democracy. -John A. Coleman, SJ Loyola Marymount University Jeffrey Klaiber's book offers a wonderfully informative history of the Church's role in Latin American struggles to defend human rights and achieve democracy. Anyone who has followed with concern and interest these recent struggles-from military dictatorships in Brazil and Chile, through the violent conflicts in Central America, to the most recent struggles in Chiapas, Mexico-will find this remarkably comprehensive study of eleven different nations an invaluable text. -Arthur F. McGovern, SJ University of Detroit This volume provides readers with the first comprehensive view of the church during a defining period of Latin American history. This is an invaluable study by a longtime and astute observer. -Edward L. Cleary, OP Providence College A compelling account of the role of the church during the dictatorships and internal wars in eleven countries of Latin America . . . by an eminent historian. -Gerald H. Anderson Director of Overseas Ministries Study Center

Author : Katherine Isbester
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2011-01-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781442601963

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The Paradox of Democracy in Latin America by Katherine Isbester Pdf

What becomes clear throughout is that there is a paradox at the heart of Latin America's democracies. Despite decades of struggle to replace authoritarian dictatorships with electoral democracies, solid economic growth (leading up to the global credit crisis), and increased efforts by the state to extend the benefits of peace and prosperity to the poor, democracy - as a political system - is experiencing declining support, and support for authoritarianism is on the rise.

Author : Paul H. Lewis
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 276 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0742537390

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Authoritarian Regimes in Latin America by Paul H. Lewis Pdf

This thoughtful text describes how Latin America's authoritarian culture has been and continues to be reflected in a variety of governments, from the near-anarchy of the early regional bosses (caudillos), to all-powerful personalistic dictators or oligarchic machines, to contemporary mass-movement regimes like Castro's Cuba or Peron's Argentina. Taking a student-friendly chronological approach, Paul Lewis also analyzes how the internal dynamics of each historical phase of the region's development led to the next. He describes how dominant ideologies of the period were used to shape, and justify, each regime's power structure. Balanced yet cautious about the future of democracy in the region, this accessible book will be invaluable for courses on contemporary Latin America.

Author : Allen Wells
Publisher : Yale University Press
Page : 732 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : History
ISBN : 9780300264401

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Latin America's Democratic Crusade by Allen Wells Pdf

By emphasizing Latin American reformers' decades-long struggle to defeat authoritarianism, this transnational history challenges the timeworn Cold War paradigm and recasts the region's political evolution Scholars persist in framing the Cold War as a battle between left and right, one in which the Global South is cast as either witting or unwitting proxies of Washington and Moscow. What if the era is told from the perspective of the many who preferred reform to revolution? Scholars have routinely neglected, dismissed, or caricatured moderate politicians. In this book, Allen Wells argues that until the Cuban Revolution, the struggle was not between capitalism and communism--that was Washington's abiding preoccupation--but between democracy and dictatorship. Beginning in the 1920s, the fight against authoritarianism was contested on multiple fronts--political, ideological, and cultural--taking on the dimensions of a political crusade. Convinced that despots represented an existential threat, reformers declared that no civilian government was safe until the cancer of dictatorship was excised from the hemisphere. Dictators retaliated, often with deadly results, exporting strategies that had been honed at home to guarantee their political survival. Grafted onto this war without borders was a belated Cold War, with all its political convulsions, the aftershocks of which are still felt today.

Author : Galo Plaza Lasso
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : History
ISBN : STANFORD:36105081333960

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Problems of Democracy in Latin America by Galo Plaza Lasso Pdf

Galo Plaza, former President of Ecuador, believes the two Americas are growing closer. This volume, comprising three lectures delivered at the University of North Carolina in 1954, proclaims his optimism.

Author : Charles Orlando Porter,Robert Jackson Alexander
Publisher : New York : Macmillan
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 1961
Category : Democracy
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173023672410

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The Struggle for Democracy in Latin America by Charles Orlando Porter,Robert Jackson Alexander Pdf

Author : Mala Htun
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2003-04-07
Category : Family & Relationships
ISBN : 0521008794

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Sex and the State by Mala Htun Pdf

Abortion, divorce, and the family: how did the state make policy decisions in these areas in Argentina, Brazil, and Chile during the last third of the twentieth century? As the three countries transitioned from democratic to authoritarian forms of government (and back), they confronted challenges posed by the rise of the feminist movement, social changes, and the power of the Catholic Church. The results were often surprising: women's rights were expanded under military dictatorships, divorce was legalized in authoritarian Brazil but not in democratic Chile, and no Latin American country changed its laws on abortion. Sex and the State explores these patterns of gender-related policy reform and shows how they mattered for the peoples of Latin America and for a broader understanding of the logic behind the state's role in shaping private lives and gender relations everywhere.

Author : Enrique Desmond Arias,Daniel M. Goldstein
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 335 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2010-03-19
Category : History
ISBN : 9780822392033

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Violent Democracies in Latin America by Enrique Desmond Arias,Daniel M. Goldstein Pdf

Despite recent political movements to establish democratic rule in Latin American countries, much of the region still suffers from pervasive violence. From vigilantism, to human rights violations, to police corruption, violence persists. It is perpetrated by state-sanctioned armies, guerillas, gangs, drug traffickers, and local community groups seeking self-protection. The everyday presence of violence contrasts starkly with governmental efforts to extend civil, political, and legal rights to all citizens, and it is invoked as evidence of the failure of Latin American countries to achieve true democracy. The contributors to this collection take the more nuanced view that violence is not a social aberration or the result of institutional failure; instead, it is intimately linked to the institutions and policies of economic liberalization and democratization. The contributors—anthropologists, political scientists, sociologists, and historians—explore how individuals and institutions in Latin American democracies, from the rural regions of Colombia and the Dominican Republic to the urban centers of Brazil and Mexico, use violence to impose and contest notions of order, rights, citizenship, and justice. They describe the lived realities of citizens and reveal the historical foundations of the violence that Latin America suffers today. One contributor examines the tightly woven relationship between violent individuals and state officials in Colombia, while another contextualizes violence in Rio de Janeiro within the transnational political economy of drug trafficking. By advancing the discussion of democratic Latin American regimes beyond the usual binary of success and failure, this collection suggests more sophisticated ways of understanding the challenges posed by violence, and of developing new frameworks for guaranteeing human rights in Latin America. Contributors: Enrique Desmond Arias, Javier Auyero, Lilian Bobea, Diane E. Davis, Robert Gay, Daniel M. Goldstein, Mary Roldán, Todd Landman, Ruth Stanley, María Clemencia Ramírez

Author : Kenneth F. Johnson,Miles W. Williams,Miles Williams
Publisher : Tempe, Ariz. : Center for Latin American Studies, Arizona State University
Page : 82 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UOM:39015005468494

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Democracy, Power, and Intervention in Latin American Political Life by Kenneth F. Johnson,Miles W. Williams,Miles Williams Pdf

Author : Gary McMahon,Juan Antonio Morales
Publisher : Springer
Page : 259 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781349246427

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Economic Policy and the Transition to Democracy by Gary McMahon,Juan Antonio Morales Pdf

In the 1980s a large number of Latin American countries reverted from military dictatorships to civilian democracies. In most cases the new democratic governments inherited an extremely precarious economic situation, which left little room to manoeuvre. This book analyzes the special problems that governments face in the formulation and implementation of economic policy after the restoration of democracy. In each of six cases - Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay, and Uruguay - an analysis is made of the difficulties encountered and the performance of the democratic governments.

Author : Gerardo Luis Munck
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780199219902

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Regimes and Democracy in Latin America by Gerardo Luis Munck Pdf

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Author : Osvaldo Hurtado
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 309 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2022-12
Category : Authoritarianism
ISBN : 9781538171097

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Dictatorships in Twenty-first-century Latin America by Osvaldo Hurtado Pdf

"Former President of Ecuador Osvaldo Hurtado explores the most important Latin American political phenomenon to emerge in the first two decades of the twenty-first century: democratic governments elected by citizens have become autocratic governments through the manipulation of republican institutions"--