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Counterpoints : selected essays on authoritarianism and democratization / Guillermo O'Donnell.

Van Pelt Library HM271 .O32 1999
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English
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Physical Description:
xxi, 235 pages ; 24 cm.
Place of Publication:
Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, [1999]
Summary:
Counterpoints is a successful mix of personal experience and meticulous scholarship -- a trajectory of O'Donnell's work that starts with the critique of authoritarianism and ends with a close examination of presently existing democracies in Latin America. His discussion of the flaws of the new democracies originating from defective institutionalism and extreme social inequalities is especially valuable for scholars of democracy and democratization, comparative politics, and Latin American politics.
Contents:
  • Part I Misadventures
  • 1. State and Alliances in Argentina, 1956-1976 3
  • 2. Tensions in the Bureaucratic-Authoritarian State and the Question of Democracy 35
  • Part II Despotisms
  • 3. Democracy in Argentina: Macro and Micro 51
  • 4. On the Fruitful Convergences of Hirschman's Exit, Voice, and Loyalty and Shifting Involvements: Reflections from the Recent Argentine Experience 63
  • 5. "And Why Should I Give a Shit?" Notes on Sociability and Politics in Argentina and Brazil 81
  • Part III Transitions
  • 6. Notes for the Study of Processes of Political Democratization in the Wake of the Bureaucratic-Authoritarian State 109
  • Part IV Perspectives
  • 7. On the State, Democratization, and Some Conceptual Problems: A Latin American View with Glances at Some Postcommunist Countries 133
  • 8. Delegative Democracy 159
  • 9. Illusions about Consolidation 175
  • 10. Poverty and Inequality in Latin America: Some Political Reflections 195.
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages [217]-221) and index.
ISBN:
  • 026800837X
  • 0268008388
OCLC:
40193647

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