The Paradox Of Democracy In Latin America

Author : Katherine Isbester
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 417 pages
File Size : 43,5 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 : John A. Booth,Mitchell A. Seligson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 2009-02-02
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139475594

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The Legitimacy Puzzle in Latin America by John A. Booth,Mitchell A. Seligson Pdf

Political scientists have worried about declining levels of citizens' support for their regimes (legitimacy), but have failed to empirically link this decline to the survival or breakdown of democracy. This apparent paradox is the 'legitimacy puzzle', which this book addresses by examining political legitimacy's structure, sources, and effects. With exhaustive empirical analysis of high-quality survey data from eight Latin American nations, it confirms that legitimacy exists as multiple, distinct dimensions. It finds that one's position in society, education, knowledge, information, and experiences shape legitimacy norms. Contrary to expectations, however, citizens who are unhappy with their government's performance do not drop out of politics or resort mainly to destabilizing protest. Rather, the disaffected citizens of these Latin American democracies participate at high rates in conventional politics and in such alternative arenas as communal improvement and civil society. And despite regime performance problems, citizen support for democracy remains high.

Author : Charles W. Bergquist
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Democracy
ISBN : STANFORD:36105022820224

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Labor and the Course of American Democracy by Charles W. Bergquist Pdf

The American hemisphere is now more tightly interconnected than ever before, with the trend toward greater economic, social and cultural integration apparently certain to continue. In this landmark text, Charles Bergquist offers a fresh interpretation of the historical background to this integration from the unusual perspective of labor. Focusing on slices of US history, and built around critiques of a handful of classic and influential texts, his five essays form not a conventional narrative history but rather a study in the construction of historical meaning, and an invitation to make use of history in the forging of a new, more democratic understanding of politics in the Americas. The book opens with an illustration of how the different labor systems of colonial America best explain the great disparity in development and power between the US and Latin America today. It goes on to link the origins of US imperialism to labor's democratic studies at home, and to explore labor's role in the Latin American social revolutions, before presenting an analysis of popular culture in the Americas in which Donald Duck is revealed as the representative of all workers. Will Donald rewrite the history books and, in our post-Cold War era, realize his democratic potential? Or will he bungle the job and succumb to the postmodern confusions of the capitalists' "New World Order?"

Author : Philip Oxhorn
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2015-08-21
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780271056616

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Sustaining Civil Society by Philip Oxhorn Pdf

“South America is not the poorest continent in the world, but it may very well be the most unjust.” This statement by Ricardo Lagos, then president of Chile, at the Summit of the Americas in January 2004 captures nicely the dilemma that faces Latin American countries in the wake of the transition to democracy that swept across the continent in the last two decades of the twentieth century. While political rights are now available to citizens at unprecedented levels, social and economic rights lag far behind, and the fledgling democracies struggle with long legacies of poverty, inequality, and corruption. Key to understanding what is happening in Latin America today is the relationship between the state and civil society. In this ambitious book, Philip Oxhorn sets forth a theory of civil society adequate for explaining current developments in a way that such controversial neoconservative theories as Francis Fukuyama’s liberal triumphalism or Samuel Huntington’s “clash of civilizations” cannot. Inspired by the rich political sociology of an earlier era and the classic work of T. H. Marshall on citizenship, Oxhorn studies the process by which social groups are incorporated, or not, into national socioeconomic and political development through an approach that focuses on the “social construction of citizenship.”

Author : Robert G. Wesson
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105038089194

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Democracy in Latin America by Robert G. Wesson Pdf

Author : Bruce Kapferer,Dimitrios Theodossopoulos
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 100 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2019-04-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789201567

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Democracy's Paradox by Bruce Kapferer,Dimitrios Theodossopoulos Pdf

Does populism indicate a radical crisis in Western democratic political systems? Is it a revolt by those who feel they have too little voice in the affairs of state or are otherwise marginalized or oppressed? Or are populist movements part of the democratic process? Bringing together different anthropological experiences of current populist movements, this volume makes a timely contribution to these questions. Contrary to more conventional interpretations of populism as crisis, the authors instead recognize populism as integral to Western democratic systems. In doing so, the volume provides an important critique that exposes the exclusionary essentialisms spread by populist rhetoric while also directing attention to local views of political accountability and historical consciousness that are key to understanding this paradox of democracy.

Author : Eduardo Dargent,Eduardo Dargent Bocanegra
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 206 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2014-11
Category : Democracy
ISBN : 1107668522

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Technocracy and Democracy in Latin America by Eduardo Dargent,Eduardo Dargent Bocanegra Pdf

Praised by some as islands of efficiency in a sea of unprofessional, politicized, and corrupt states, and criticized by others for removing wide areas of policy making from the democratic arena, technocrats have become prominent and controversial actors in Latin American politics. Nonelected state officials with advanced educations from top universities, technocrats achieve considerable autonomy from political and economic actors and exerted great influence over their countries' fates. This finding poses an intriguing paradox. These experts lack an independent base of authority, such as popular election. They also lack the tenure enjoyed by professional bureaucrats. What, then, explains the power of technocrats in democratic Latin America? And why do they enjoy and maintain greater policy influence in some areas than in others? Through an in-depth analysis of economic and health policy in Colombia from 1958 to 2011 and in Peru from 1980 to 2011, Technocracy and Democracy in Latin America answers these and other questions about experts in Latin America.

Author : Peter H. Smith,Cameron J. Sells
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Democracy
ISBN : 0190611340

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Democracy in Latin America by Peter H. Smith,Cameron J. Sells Pdf

Examines processes of democratization in Latin America from 1900 to the present. Thoroughly revised and expanded, this new edition provides a widespread view of political transformation throughout the entire region.

Author : Mitchell A. Seligson
Publisher : LAPOP
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0979217873

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Challenges to Democracy in Latin America and the Caribbean by Mitchell A. Seligson Pdf

Author : John A. Peeler
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 40,7 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 : Diana Kapiszewski,Steven Levitsky,Deborah J. Yashar
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 587 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2021-02-04
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781108842044

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The Inclusionary Turn in Latin American Democracies by Diana Kapiszewski,Steven Levitsky,Deborah J. Yashar Pdf

This volume analyzes how enduring democracy amid longstanding inequality engendered inclusionary reform in contemporary Latin America.

Author : Roderic Ai Camp
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 46,5 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 : James W. McGuire
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2010-03-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139486224

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Wealth, Health, and Democracy in East Asia and Latin America by James W. McGuire Pdf

Why do some societies fare well, and others poorly, at reducing the risk of early death? Wealth, Health, and Democracy in East Asia and Latin America finds that the public provision of basic health care and other inexpensive social services has reduced mortality rapidly even in tough economic circumstances, and that political democracy has contributed to the provision and utilization of such social services, in a wider range of ways than is sometimes recognized. These conclusions are based on case studies of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Costa Rica, Indonesia, South Korea, Taiwan, and Thailand, as well as on cross-national comparisons involving these cases and others.

Author : Eduardo Dargent
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781107059870

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Technocracy and Democracy in Latin America by Eduardo Dargent Pdf

Praised by some as islands of efficiency in a sea of unprofessional, politicized, and corrupt states, and criticized by others for removing wide areas of policy making from the democratic arena, technocrats have become prominent and controversial actors in Latin American politics. Through an in-depth analysis of economic and health policy in Colombia from 1958 to 2011 and in Peru from 1980 to 2011, Technocracy and Democracy in Latin America explains the source of these experts' power as well as the leverage they have across state policy sectors in Latin America.

Author : Carlos A. Forment
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Democracy
ISBN : OCLC:1062964692

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