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Title

Fault lines of democracy in post-transition Latin America / edited by Felipe Agüero and Jeffrey Stark.

Publication

Coral Gables, Fla. : North-South Center Press/University of Miami ; Boulder, CO : Distributed by Lynne Rienner Publishers, [1998], ©1998.

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Additional Authors

• Agüero, Felipe.
• Stark, Jeffrey.

Description

viii, 407 pages; 23 cm

Summary

• Concerns about democratization in Latin America today center not on the threat of authoritarian regression, but on the depth, quality, fairness, and completeness of democratization thus far. Large-scale economic and social reforms, stronger and more complex civil societies, and processes of integration and globalization call for new approaches in order to understand the unfolding of democracy in the region.
• In this context, the contributors to this volume explore the often disjunctive aspects of Latin American democracy, providing a nuanced understanding of contemporary democratic governance.

Subject

• Democracy > Latin America
• Civil-military relations > Latin America

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Preface and Acknowledgments / Felipe Aguero and Jeffrey Stark -- Pt. I. Thinking About Problems of Democratic Governance in Post-Transition Latin America. 1. Conflicting Assessments of Democratization: Exploring the Fault Lines / Felipe Aguero. 2. The Transformations of Politics / Norbert Lechner. 3. Faulty Democracies? A Reflection on the Capitalist "Fault Lines" in Latin America / Atilio A. Boron. 4. Globalization and Democracy in Latin America / Jeffrey Stark -- Pt. II. Participation, Representation, Empowermen and Accountability. 5. Democracy and Political Representation in Latin America in the Pause, Reorganization, or Decline? / Frances Hagopian. 6. Democratization in Latin America: A Citizen Responsibility / Augusto Varas. 7. Fault Lines of Democratic Governance: A Gender Perspective / Marysa Navarro and Susan C. Bourque. 8. Ethnicity and Democratic Governability in Latin America: Reflections from Two Central Andean Countries / Carlos Ivan Degregori --
• Pt. III. Justice, Law, and the Judiciary: Citizenship and Democracy. 9. Judicial Reform and Democratization in Latin America / Hugo Fruhling. 10. Democracy, Law, and Violence: Disjunctions of Brazilian Citizenship / James Holston and Teresa P. R. Caldeira -- Pt. IV. The Military in a New Context. 11. Civil-Military Relations in Argentina, Brazil, and Chile: Present Trends, Future Prospects / Wendy Hunter. 12. The Changing International Environment and Civil-Military Relations in Post-Cold War Southern Latin America / Michael C. Desch. 13. Democracy, Civilizational Change, and the Latin American Military / Fernando Bustamante -- Conclusion / Felipe Aguero and Jeffrey Stark.

ISBN

1574540467

LCCN

98042225

OCLC

ocm39739770

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Columbia University Libraries