Makers Of Democracy In Latin America

Author : A. Ricardo López-Pedreros
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2019-03-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9781478003298

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Makers of Democracy by A. Ricardo López-Pedreros Pdf

In Makers of Democracy A. Ricardo López-Pedreros traces the ways in which a thriving middle class was understood to be a foundational marker of democracy in Colombia during the second half of the twentieth century. Drawing on a wide array of sources ranging from training manuals and oral histories to school and business archives, López-Pedreros shows how the Colombian middle class created a model of democracy based on free-market ideologies, private property rights, material inequality, and an emphasis on a masculine work culture. This model, which naturalized class and gender hierarchies, provided the groundwork for Colombia's later adoption of neoliberalism and inspired the emergence of alternate models of democracy and social hierarchies in the 1960s and 1970s that helped foment political radicalization. By highlighting the contested relationships between class, gender, economics, and politics, López-Pedreros theorizes democracy as a historically unstable practice that exacerbated multiple forms of domination, thereby prompting a rethinking of the formation of democracies throughout the Americas.

Author : Harold Eugene Davis
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 1968
Category : Democracy
ISBN : OCLC:1022849985

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Makers of Democracy in Latin America by Harold Eugene Davis Pdf

Author : Scott Mainwaring,Christopher Welna
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2003-07-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191531347

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Democratic Accountability in Latin America by Scott Mainwaring,Christopher Welna Pdf

This volume on democratic accountability addresses one of the burning issues on the agenda of policy makers and citizens in contemporary Latin America: how democratic leaders in Latin America can improve accountability while simultaneously promoting governmental effectiveness. Written by well-known scholars form both Latin America and the United States, the volume enhances understanding of these key themes, which are central to the future of democracy in Latin America. - ;This volume on democratic accountability addresses one of the burning issues on the agenda of policy makers and citizens in contemporary Latin America. In much of Latin America, disenchantment and cynicism have set in regarding the quality of elected governments raising the prospect of a new round of democratic erosion and breakdowns. One of the important emerging challenges for improving the quality of democracy resolves around how to build more effective mechanisms of accountability. A widespread perception prevails in much of the region that government officials are not sufficiently subject to routinized controls by oversight agencies. Corruption, lack of oversight, impunity of state actors, and improper use of public resources are major problems in most countries of the region. Dealing with these issues is paramount to restoring and deepening democratic legitimacy. The fundamental question in this volume is how democratic leaders in Latin America can improve accountability while simultaneously promoting governmental effectiveness. These issues have acquired urgency in contemporary Latin America because of heightened public concern about corruption and improper governmental actions on the one hand, yet on the other, uncertainty about the potential tradeoff between tightened accountability of officials and effective policy results. The volume enhances understanding of three key issues. First, it enriches understanding of the state of non-electoral forms of democratic accountability in contemporary Latin America. What are some of the major shortcoming in democratic accountability? How can they be addressed? What are some major innovations in the efforts to enhance democratic accountability? A second contribution of the volume is conceptual. Accountability is a key concept in the social sciences, yt its meaning varies widely form one author to the next. The authors in this volume, especially in the first four chapters, explicitly debate how bet to define and delimit the concept. Finally the volume also furthers understanding of the interactions between various mechanism and institutions of accountability. Many of the authors address how electoral accountability (the accountability of elected officials to the voters) interact with the forms of accountability in which state agencies oversee and sanction public officials. The volume provides extensive treatment of this important but hitherto under-explored interaction. -

Author : Jorge I. Domínguez,Michael Shifter
Publisher : JHU Press
Page : 404 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-31
Category : History
ISBN : 9781421409795

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Constructing Democratic Governance in Latin America by Jorge I. Domínguez,Michael Shifter Pdf

After more than a century of assorted dictatorships and innumerable fiscal crises, the majority of Latin America's states are governed today by constitutional democratic regimes. Some analysts and scholars argue that Latin America weathered the 2008 fiscal crisis much better than the United States. How did this happen? Jorge I. Domínguez and Michael Shifter asked area specialists to examine the electoral and governance factors that shed light on this transformation and the region's prospects. They gather their findings in the fourth edition of Constructing Democratic Governance in Latin America. This new edition is completely updated. Part I is thematic, covering issues of media, constitutionalism, the commodities boom, and fiscal management vis-à-vis governance. Part II focuses on eight important countries in the region—Argentina, Brazil, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Mexico, Peru, and Venezuela. Already widely used in courses, Constructing Democratic Governance in Latin America will continue to interest students of Latin American politics, democratization studies, and comparative politics as well as policymakers.

Author : Ignacio Walker
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2013-04-30
Category : Law
ISBN : 9780268096663

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Democracy in Latin America by Ignacio Walker Pdf

In 2009, Ignacio Walker—scholar, politician, and one of Latin America’s leading public intellectuals—published La Democracia en América 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.

Author : Robert G. Wesson
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173024492855

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Democracy in Latin America by Robert G. Wesson Pdf

Author : Katherine Isbester
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 47,6 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 : Charles Dennison Kenney
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : History
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173014613024

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Fujimori's Coup and the Breakdown of Democracy in Latin America by Charles Dennison Kenney Pdf

This text explores why and how democracy broke down in Peru in 1992. The author's argument is that institutional factors - especially the absence of a legislative majority - were crucial to the collapse of democracy in Peru during and before this period and throughout Latin America since the 1960s.

Author : Leonardo Avritzer
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2009-01-10
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1400825016

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Democracy and the Public Space in Latin America by Leonardo Avritzer Pdf

This is a bold new study of the recent emergence of democracy in Latin America. Leonardo Avritzer shows that traditional theories of democratization fall short in explaining this phenomenon. Scholars have long held that the postwar stability of Western Europe reveals that restricted democracy, or "democratic elitism," is the only realistic way to guard against forces such as the mass mobilizations that toppled European democracies after World War I. Avritzer challenges this view. Drawing on the ideas of Jürgen Habermas, he argues that democracy can be far more inclusive and can rely on a sphere of autonomous association and argument by citizens. He makes this argument by showing that democratic collective action has opened up a new "public space" for popular participation in Latin American politics. Unlike many theorists, Avritzer builds his case empirically. He looks at human rights movements in Argentina and Brazil, neighborhood associations in Brazil and Mexico, and election-monitoring initiatives in Mexico. Contending that such participation has not gone far enough, he proposes a way to involve citizens even more directly in policy decisions. For example, he points to experiments in "participatory budgeting" in two Brazilian cities. Ultimately, the concept of such a space beyond the reach of state administration fosters a broader view of democratic possibility, of the cultural transformation that spurred it, and of the tensions that persist, in a region where democracy is both new and different from the Old World models.

Author : Harold Eugene DAVIS
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1945
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1064944837

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Makers of Democracy in Latin America. (Third Printing.). by Harold Eugene DAVIS Pdf

Author : Carlos A. Forment
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2013-07-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780226112909

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Democracy in Latin America, 1760–1900 by Carlos A. Forment Pdf

Carlos Forment's aim in this highly ambitious work is to write the book that Tocqueville would have written had he traveled to Latin America instead of the United States. Drawing on an astonishing level of research, Forment pored over countless newspapers, partisan pamphlets, tabloids, journals, private letters, and travelogues to show in this study how citizens of Latin America established strong democratic traditions in their countries through the practice of democracy in their everyday lives. This first volume of Democracy in Latin America considers the development of democratic life in Mexico and Peru from independence to the late 1890s. Forment traces the emergence of hundreds of political, economic, and civic associations run by citizens in both nations and shows how these organizations became models of and for democracy in the face of dictatorship and immense economic hardship. His is the first book to show the presence in Latin America of civic democracy, something that gave men and women in that region an alternative to market- and state-centered forms of life. In looking beneath institutions of government to uncover local and civil organizations in public life, Forment ultimately uncovers a tradition of edification and inculcation that shaped democratic practices in Latin America profoundly. This tradition, he reveals, was stronger in Mexico than in Peru, but its basic outlines were similar in both nations and included a unique form of what Forment calls Civic Catholicism in order to distinguish itself from civic republicanism, the dominant political model throughout the rest of the Western world.

Author : R. Feinberg,C. Waisman,L. Zamosc
Publisher : Springer
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2006-04-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781403983244

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Civil Society and Democracy in Latin America by R. Feinberg,C. Waisman,L. Zamosc Pdf

A dense web of private associations drawn from multiple social classes, interest groups and value communities makes for a firm foundation for strong democracy. In Latin America today, will civil society improve the quality of democracy or will it foster political polarization and reverse recent progress? Distinguished theorists from the United States, Canada and Latin America explore the diverse impact of civil society on economic performance, political parties, and state institutions. In-depth and up-to-date country studies explore the consequences of civil society for the durability of democracy in three highly dynamic, controversial settings: Argentina, Brazil and Venezuela.

Author : Scott Mainwaring,Arturo Valenzuela
Publisher : Westview Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015040045547

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Politics, Society, And Democracy by Scott Mainwaring,Arturo Valenzuela Pdf

This is the third of four volumes compiled in honor of Juan J. Linz and edited by H. E. Chehabi, Richard Gunther, Alfred Stepan, and Arturo Valenzuela. Each volume presents original research and theoretical essays by Linz's distinguished collaborators, students, teachers, and friends, as well as overviews of his enormous contributions to Spanish and Latin American studies, comparative politics, and sociology.In Volume III, leading Latin American scholars evaluate Juan Linz's contribution to the study of Latin American politics, in particular his influence on studies dealing with authoritarianism, democratic breakdown, public opinion, regime transition, and the institutional conditions needed for stable democracy.

Author : Thomas Draper
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UVA:X000395344

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Democracy and Dictatorship in Latin America by Thomas Draper Pdf

Author : Gerardo Luis Munck
Publisher : Oxford University Press on Demand
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 46,7 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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