Democracy in Latin America : between hope and despair / Ignacio Walker ; translated by Krystin Krause, Holly Bird, and Scott Mainwaring.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Walker, Ignacio.

Contributor:

Krause, Krystin, translator.

Bird, Holly, translator.

Mainwaring, Scott, 1954- translator.

Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies.

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Democracy--Latin America.

Democracy.

Latin America.

Latin America--Politics and government.

Politics and government.

Physical Description:

xvi, 262 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Notre Dame, Indiana : University of Notre Dame Press, [2013]

Summary:

In 2009, Ignacio Walker--scholar, politician, and one of Latin America's leading public intellectuals--published La Democracia en América 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.

Contents:

Chapter 1 The Search for Alternatives to Oligarchic Rule 11

Chapter 2 Toward a New Model of Development 49

Chapter 3 Democratic Breakdown, Transition, and Consolidation 71

Chapter 4 Toward a New Strategy of Development 107

Chapter 5 Democracy, Governability, and Neopopulism 127

Chapter 6 Presidentialism and Parliamentarism 161

Chapter 7 The New Social Question 191

Chapter 8 Democracy of Institutions 215.

Notes:

Text was translated from Spanish.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780268019723

026801972X

OCLC:

821025215