Pandemocracy In Latin America

Author : Pablo Riberi
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 275 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2024-02-08
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781509965281

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Pandemocracy in Latin America by Pablo Riberi Pdf

This book addresses two questions: firstly, how has the fight against COVID-19, especially the individual and collective responses of Latin American nation-states, influenced the relationship between power, people, and statebodies? And secondly, has democracy taken a step back and allowed pandemocracy to replace its long-term legitimising function? Adopting a Global South perspective, the book explores the constitutional, political and institutional measures that paved the way for several aggressive state policies in various Latin American countries during the COVID-19 pandemic. The contributions provide a detailed review of democratic decay and the 'rule of law' impairment in many countries of the region. The book goes beyond mere observation and explores all the main theoretical elements that can lead to a more comprehensive understanding of the political and normative impact of the pandemic. In terms of constitutional design and concerning the actual behaviour of political bodies, the fairness and efficacy of Latin American state responses during the COVID-19 pandemic did not rely on civic culture, executive goodwill, or boldness on the part of the judges. The aim of this volume, therefore, is to unravel the most subtle elements of a very puzzling situation. Multidisciplinary perspectives are deployed to explore how democratic standards and goals have been reshaped by nuanced constructions of certain atavistic normative ideas or even by non-constitutional policies. The book sheds light on the underlying connection between politics and law.

Author : Roderic A. Camp
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 0842025138

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Democracy in Latin America by Roderic A. Camp Pdf

Events such as the signing of the North American Free Trade Agreement have made it imperative for students to grasp the history and possible directions of Latin American political change. This title gives readers both the background and the analytical models necessary for an accurate understanding of this area's political past and future. To examine the problems posed by political development, Professor Camp has divided this volume into four parts. The first section sets the tone, with two introductory essays providing an overview of the problems and dilemmas posed by democratization. The other three parts explore important aspects of this overall process.

Author : Carlos A. Forment
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
Page : 485 pages
File Size : 52,7 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 : Robert G. Wesson
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105037395212

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Democracy in Latin America by Robert G. Wesson Pdf

Author : Ignacio Walker
Publisher : University of Notre Dame Pess
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 44,8 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 : Thomas Draper
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173017860507

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Democracy and Dictatorship in Latin America by Thomas Draper Pdf

Author : John A. Peeler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1998
Category : Political Science
ISBN : UCAL:B3571371

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Building Democracy in Latin America by John A. Peeler Pdf

Peeler (political science, Bucknell U.) examines the challenges and opportunities for creating a humane and democratic political order in a region where, by his own admission, such a task has often seemed impossible. He explores basic issues of democratic theory, democracy's roots in Latin American tradition, managing participation in early democracies, authoritarian regimes of the 1970s, the institutionalization of democracy, and transitions that occurred in several countries in the 1980s. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Author : Philip Kelly
Publisher : Westview Press
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 1998-05-07
Category : History
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173006098964

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Assessing Democracy In Latin America by Philip Kelly Pdf

Based on fifty years' worth of data, Assessing Democracy in Latin America examines and compares the progress of Latin American countries toward democracy. The essays in this volume, all written by contributors to the Fitzgibbon Democracy Survey, focus their analyses on those factors most germane to the growth, maintenance, or failure of democratic systems. For example, in his initial chapter, Philip Kelly identifies two variables, mechanized agriculture and per-capita newspaper circulation, as the best statistical indicators of democracy in Latin America. Other contributors explore a variety of new topics such as the connection between democracy and environmental movements (Kathryn Hochstetler and Steven Mumme), political parties (John D. Martz), and social dynamics (Robert L. Peterson).Initiated in 1945 as a method of measuring and ranking Latin American democratic systems, the Fitzgibbon Democracy Survey's longevity and scope provide an unparalleled wealth of scholarly research. This volume offers what few others like it can: a longitudinally deep data set (eleven surveys over the past fifty years) and closely coordinated coverage of the complete range of Latin American countries by specialists assembled expressly for that purpose.

Author : Larry Diamond,Juan J. Linz,Seymour Martin Lipset
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : POLITICAL SCIENCE
ISBN : 1685853110

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Democracy in Developing Countries by Larry Diamond,Juan J. Linz,Seymour Martin Lipset Pdf

Following a common analytical framework, the authors trace the experiences with democratic and authoritarian rule and assess the underlying causes of democratic success and failure in ten Latin American countries.

Author : Roderic Ai Camp
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:811260372

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Citizen Views of Democracy in Latin America by Roderic Ai Camp Pdf

Author : Carlos A. Forment
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Democracy
ISBN : OCLC:1062964692

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

Author : Matthias C Kettemann,Konrad Lachmayer
Publisher : Hart Publishing
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2023-06-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781509946402

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Pandemocracy in Europe by Matthias C Kettemann,Konrad Lachmayer Pdf

This open access book explains why a democratic reckoning will start when European societies win the fight against COVID-19. Have democracies successfully mastered the challenges of the pandemic? How has the coronavirus impacted democratic principles, processes and values? At the heels of the worst public health crisis in living memory, this book shines an unforgiving light on the side-lining of parliaments, the ruling by governmental decrees and the disenfranchisement of the people in the name of fighting COVID-19. Pandemocracy in Europe situates the dramatic impact of COVID-19, and the fight against the virus, on Europe's democracies. Throughout its 17 contributions the book sets the theoretical stage and answers the democratic questions engaged by health emergencies. Seven national case studies – UK, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Hungary, Switzerland, and France – show, each time with a pronounced focus on a particular element of democracy, how different states reacted to the pandemic. The book also shifts the analytical gaze beyond the nation state towards international settings, looking at the effects on the European Union and considering the impact on populist movements. Bridging disciplines and uniting a stellar cast of scholars on democracy, rule of law and constitutionalism, the book provides contours and nuances to a year of debates in political science, international relations and law on the impact of the virus on democracies. In times of uncertainty, Pandemocracy in Europe provides analysis and answers to the democratic challenges of the coronavirus. The ebook editions of this book are available under a CC BY-NC-ND 4.0 licence on www.bloomsburycollections.com.

Author : Richard Albert,Carlos Bernal,Juliano Zaiden Benvindo
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2019-07-25
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781509923519

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Constitutional Change and Transformation in Latin America by Richard Albert,Carlos Bernal,Juliano Zaiden Benvindo Pdf

Over the past 30 years, Latin America has lived through an intense period of constitutional change. Some reforms have been limited in their design and impact, while others have been far-reaching transformations to basic structural features and fundamental rights. Scholars interested in the law and politics of constitutional change in Latin America are turning increasingly to comparative methodologies to expose the nature and scope of these changes, to uncover the motivations of political actors, to theorise how better to execute the procedures of constitutional reform, and to assess whether there should be any limitations on the power of constitutional amendment. In this collection, leading and emerging voices in Latin American constitutionalism explore the complexity of the vast topography of constitutional developments, experiments and perspectives in the region. This volume offers a deep understanding of modern constitutional change in Latin America and evaluates its implications for constitutionalism, democracy, human rights and the rule of law.

Author : Emilio Peluso Neder Meyer
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,6 Mb
Release : 2021-07-15
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781509942602

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Constitutional Erosion in Brazil by Emilio Peluso Neder Meyer Pdf

This book provides a fascinating analysis of a single jurisdiction, Brazil, and accounts for both the successes and the failures of its most recent constitutional project, inaugurated by the Constitution of 1988. It sets out the following aspects of the constitutional development and erosion: - the different phases of the promised transition from military rule to a 'social-democratic constitutionalism'; - the obstacles to democratisation derived from the absence of true institutional reforms in the judicial branch and in the civil-military relationship; - the legal and social practices which maintained a structure that obstructed the emergence of an effective social-democracy, such as the neoliberal pattern, the acceptance in the political field of unlawful organisations, such as the milícias, and the way the digital revolution has been harming the formation of democratic sovereignty. Situating Brazil in the global context of the revival of authoritarianism, it details the factors which are common to the third wave of democratisation reflux. Accounting for those aspects, particular to the Brazilian jurisdiction, it shows that there is a tension in the Brazilian constitution. On the one hand, such constitutionalism was renewed by democratic pressure on governments to undertake social politics since 1988. On the other hand, it retained authoritarian practices through the hands of diverse institutions and political actors. By exploring the ideas of constitutional erosion and collapse, as well as democratic, social and digital constitutionalism, the book presents a comparative analysis of Brazil and other jurisdictions, including the United States, South Africa, and Peru.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 118 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1941
Category : America
ISBN : OSU:32435016773020

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Hemisphere Defense by Anonim Pdf