Democracy in Latin America: Between Hope and Despair Contributor(s): Walker, Ignacio (Author), Mainwaring, Scott (Translator) |
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ISBN: 026801972X ISBN-13: 9780268019723 Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press OUR PRICE: $37.62 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2013 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Political Science | Political Ideologies - Democracy - History | Latin America - South America - History | Caribbean & West Indies - General |
Dewey: 321.809 |
LCCN: 2013000479 |
Series: Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies (Paperback) |
Physical Information: 0.9" H x 6" W x 9" (0.95 lbs) 280 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Latin America - Cultural Region - Caribbean & West Indies |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: In 2009, Ignacio Walker--scholar, politician, and one of Latin America's leading public intellectuals--published La Democracia en Am rica 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Walker, Ignacio: - Ignacio Walker is a Chilean senior scholar of political science and a practicing politician. He is currently serving as a senator of the Republic of Chile and as president of the Christian Democratic Party. |