The Paradox Of Democracy In Latin America
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Author | : Katherine Isbester |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 417 |
Release | : 2011-01-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1442601965 |
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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 | : Maggie Mayer |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Democracy |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : John A. Booth |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 318 |
Release | : 2009-02-02 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1139475592 |
Download The Legitimacy Puzzle in Latin America Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
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 | : Katherine Isbester |
Publisher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 417 |
Release | : 2011-01-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1442601809 |
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Inviting in tone and organization but rigorous in its scholarship, this collection focuses on the problems, successes, and multiple forms of democracy in Latin America.
Author | : Philip Oxhorn |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 296 |
Release | : 2011 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0271048948 |
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"Devoting particular emphasis to Bolivia, Chile, and Mexico, proposes a theory of civil society to explain the economic and political challenges for continuing democratization in Latin America"--Provided by publisher.
Author | : Charles W. Bergquist |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1996 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : |
Download Labor and the Course of American Democracy Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
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 | : Eduardo Dargent |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 219 |
Release | : 2014-11-10 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1316194981 |
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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 exert great influence over their countries' fates. This finding poses an intriguing paradox. These experts lack an independent base of authority, such as popular election, and the tenure enjoyed by professional bureaucrats. What, then, explains the power of technocrats in democratic Latin America? Why do they enjoy and maintain greater policy influence in some areas than in others? Through 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 | : Guy Hermet |
Publisher | : Gyan Publishing House |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 1988 |
Genre | : Democracy |
ISBN | : |
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A paradox is an assimilation of two apposite features of a thing-tree-and hence failing to understand looks queer, but not-welcome. The positive must overcome spreading by leaps and bound, for sale affirmative existence. Likewise the paradoxes of the democracies are the features with one negative aspect, which must be overcome for a more symmetrical democracy.
Author | : Tracy Fitzsimmons |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 446 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Associations, institutions, etc |
ISBN | : |
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Author | : Mitchell A. Seligson |
Publisher | : LAPOP |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9780979217876 |
Download Challenges to Democracy in Latin America and the Caribbean Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle