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Civil society and democracy in Latin America / edited by Richard Feinberg, Carlos H. Waisman, and León Zamosc.

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Civil society and democracy in Latin America / edited by Richard Feinberg, Carlos H. Waisman, and León Zamosc.
Publication
New York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2006.

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Additional Authors
  • Feinberg, Richard E.
  • Waisman, Carlos H. (Carlos Horacio), 1943-
  • Zamosc, León.
Description
vi, 196 p. : ill.; 22 cm.
Summary
A dense web of private associations drawn from multiple social classes, interest groups and value communities makes for a firm foundation for strong democracy. In Latin America today, will civil society improve the quality of democracy or will it foster political polarization and reverse recent progress? Distinguished theorists from the United States, Canada and Latin America explore the diverse impact of civil society on economic performance, political parties, and state institutions. In-depth and up-to-date country studies explore the consequences of civil society for the durability of democracy in three highly dynamic, controversial settings: Argentina, Brazil and Venezuela.
Subject
  • Civil society > Latin America
  • Democracy > Latin America
  • Démocratie > Amérique latine
  • Société civile > Amérique latine
  • Civil society
  • Democracy
  • POLITICAL SCIENCE > General
  • Politics and government
  • Latin America > Politics and government > 1980-
Bibliography (note)
  • Includes bibliographical references and index.
Processing Action (note)
  • committed to retain
Contents
Introduction : civil society and democracy : the Latin American case / Carlos H. Waisman, Richard Feinberg, Leon Zamosc -- Autonomy, self-regulation, and democracy : Tocquevillean-Gellnerian perspectives on civil society and the bifurcated state in Latin America / Carlos H. Waisman -- Civil society in Latin America in the twenty-first century : between democratic deepening, social fragmentation, and state crisis / Leonardo Avritzer -- Conceptualizing civil society from the bottom up : a political economy perspective / Philip Oxhorn -- Citizenship and civil society in renascent Argentina / Isidoro Cheresky -- Argentina after the nineties : changes in social structure and political behavior / Manuel Mora y Araujo -- Sem reforma agrária, não há democracia : deepening democracy and the struggle for agrarian reform in Brazil / Wendy Wolford -- Civil society and political decay in Venezuela / Daniel H. Levine.
ISBN
  • 1403972281
  • 9781403972286
LCCN
^^2005056461
OCLC
62741501
Owning Institutions
Harvard Library