Latin American Democracy - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Latin American Democracy write by Richard L. Millett. This book was released on 2015-03-02. Latin American Democracy available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. More than thirty years have passed since Latin America began the arduous task of transitioning from military-led rule to democracy. In this time, more countries have moved toward the institutional bases of democracy than at any time in the region’s history. Nearly all countries have held free, competitive elections and most have had peaceful alternations in power between opposing political forces. Despite these advances, however, Latin American countries continue to face serious domestic and international challenges to the consolidation of stable democratic governance. The challenges range from weak political institutions, corruption, legacies of militarism, transnational crime, and globalization among others. In the second edition of Latin American Democracy contributors – both academics and practitioners, North Americans, Latin Americans, and Spaniards—explore and assess the state of democratic consolidation in Latin America by focusing on the specific issues and challenges confronting democratic governance in the region. This thoroughly updated revision provides new chapters on: the environment, decentralization, the economy, indigenous groups, and the role of China in the region.
Barrio Democracy in Latin America
Barrio Democracy in Latin America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Barrio Democracy in Latin America write by Eduardo Canel. This book was released on 2010-01-01. Barrio Democracy in Latin America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The transition to democracy underway in Latin America since the 1980s has recently witnessed a resurgence of interest in experimenting with new forms of local governance emphasizing more participation by ordinary citizens. The hope is both to foster the spread of democracy and to improve equity in the distribution of resources. While participatory budgeting has been a favorite topic of many scholars studying this new phenomenon, there are many other types of ongoing experiments. In Barrio Democracy in Latin America, Eduardo Canel focuses our attention on the innovative participatory programs launched by the leftist government in Montevideo, Uruguay, in the early 1990s. Based on his extensive ethnographic fieldwork, Canel examines how local activists in three low-income neighborhoods in that city dealt with the opportunities and challenges of implementing democratic practices and building better relationships with sympathetic city officials.
The Inclusionary Turn in Latin American Democracies
The Inclusionary Turn in Latin American Democracies - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Inclusionary Turn in Latin American Democracies write by Diana Kapiszewski. This book was released on 2021-02-04. The Inclusionary Turn in Latin American Democracies available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Latin American states took dramatic steps toward greater inclusion during the late twentieth and early twenty-first Centuries. Bringing together an accomplished group of scholars, this volume examines this shift by introducing three dimensions of inclusion: official recognition of historically excluded groups, access to policymaking, and resource redistribution. Tracing the movement along these dimensions since the 1990s, the editors argue that the endurance of democratic politics, combined with longstanding social inequalities, create the impetus for inclusionary reforms. Diverse chapters explore how factors such as the role of partisanship and electoral clientelism, constitutional design, state capacity, social protest, populism, commodity rents, international diffusion, and historical legacies encouraged or inhibited inclusionary reform during the late 1990s and early 2000s. Featuring original empirical evidence and a strong theoretical framework, the book considers cross-national variation, delves into the surprising paradoxes of inclusion, and identifies the obstacles hindering further fundamental change.
Democracy in Latin America
Democracy in Latin America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Democracy in Latin America write by Peter H. Smith. This book was released on 2017. Democracy in Latin America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
Democracies and Dictatorships in Latin America
Democracies and Dictatorships in Latin America - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Democracies and Dictatorships in Latin America write by Scott Mainwaring. This book was released on 2014-01-31. Democracies and Dictatorships in Latin America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
