The Paradox of 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 The Paradox of Democracy in Latin America write by Katherine Isbester. This book was released on 2011-01-01. The Paradox of Democracy in Latin America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
The paradox of democratic Latin America
The paradox of democratic 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 The paradox of democratic Latin America write by Maggie Mayer. This book was released on 2009. The paradox of democratic Latin America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
The Legitimacy Puzzle in Latin America
The Legitimacy Puzzle 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 The Legitimacy Puzzle in Latin America write by John A. Booth. This book was released on 2009-02-02. The Legitimacy Puzzle in Latin America available 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.
Labor and the Course of American Democracy
Labor and the Course of 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 Labor and the Course of American Democracy write by Charles W. Bergquist. This book was released on 1996. Labor and the Course of American Democracy available 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?"
The Paradox of Democracy in Latin America
The Paradox of 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 The Paradox of Democracy in Latin America write by Katherine Isbester. This book was released on 2011-01-01. The Paradox of Democracy in Latin America available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. 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.
