Democracies And Dictatorships In Latin America
Download Democracies And Dictatorships In Latin America full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online free Democracies And Dictatorships In Latin America ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!
Democracies and Dictatorships in Latin America
Author | : Scott Mainwaring,Aníbal Pérez-Liñán |
Publsiher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 371 |
Release | : 2014-01-31 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781107433632 |
Download Democracies and Dictatorships in Latin America Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This book presents a new theory for why political regimes emerge, and why they subsequently survive or break down. It then analyzes the emergence, survival and fall of democracies and dictatorships in Latin America since 1900. Scott Mainwaring and Aníbal Pérez-Liñán argue for a theoretical approach situated between long-term structural and cultural explanations and short-term explanations that look at the decisions of specific leaders. They focus on the political preferences of powerful actors - the degree to which they embrace democracy as an intrinsically desirable end and their policy radicalism - to explain regime outcomes. They also demonstrate that transnational forces and influences are crucial to understand regional waves of democratization. Based on extensive research into the political histories of all twenty Latin American countries, this book offers the first extended analysis of regime emergence, survival and failure for all of Latin America over a long period of time.
Democracy and Dictatorship in Latin America
Author | : Thomas Draper |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 244 |
Release | : 1981 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : UVA:X000395344 |
Download Democracy and Dictatorship in Latin America Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The Church Dictatorships and Democracy in Latin America
Author | : Jeffrey Klaiber |
Publsiher | : Wipf and Stock Publishers |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2009-09-01 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 9781606089477 |
Download The Church Dictatorships and Democracy in Latin America Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
No book in any language equals The Church, Dictatorships, and Democracy in Latin America for its comparative breadth. Historians, social scientists, and general readers will cull from it the conditions needed for the church to play a positive and creative role in furthering human rights and democracy. -John A. Coleman, SJ Loyola Marymount University Jeffrey Klaiber's book offers a wonderfully informative history of the Church's role in Latin American struggles to defend human rights and achieve democracy. Anyone who has followed with concern and interest these recent struggles-from military dictatorships in Brazil and Chile, through the violent conflicts in Central America, to the most recent struggles in Chiapas, Mexico-will find this remarkably comprehensive study of eleven different nations an invaluable text. -Arthur F. McGovern, SJ University of Detroit This volume provides readers with the first comprehensive view of the church during a defining period of Latin American history. This is an invaluable study by a longtime and astute observer. -Edward L. Cleary, OP Providence College A compelling account of the role of the church during the dictatorships and internal wars in eleven countries of Latin America . . . by an eminent historian. -Gerald H. Anderson Director of Overseas Ministries Study Center
Democracy in Latin America
Author | : Robert G. Wesson |
Publsiher | : Greenwood |
Total Pages | : 232 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : STANFORD:36105038089194 |
Download Democracy in Latin America Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The Paradox of Democracy in Latin America
Author | : Katherine Isbester |
Publsiher | : University of Toronto Press |
Total Pages | : 417 |
Release | : 2011-01-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 9781442601963 |
Download The Paradox of Democracy in Latin America Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
What becomes clear throughout is that there is a paradox at the heart of Latin America's democracies. Despite decades of struggle to replace authoritarian dictatorships with electoral democracies, solid economic growth (leading up to the global credit crisis), and increased efforts by the state to extend the benefits of peace and prosperity to the poor, democracy - as a political system - is experiencing declining support, and support for authoritarianism is on the rise.
Democracy Vs Dictators in Latin America
Author | : United States. Department of State. Office of Media Services |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 12 |
Release | : 1964 |
Genre | : Latin America |
ISBN | : UTEXAS:059173023676659 |
Download Democracy Vs Dictators in Latin America Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Authoritarian Regimes in Latin America
Author | : Paul H. Lewis |
Publsiher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0742537390 |
Download Authoritarian Regimes in Latin America Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
This thoughtful text describes how Latin America's authoritarian culture has been and continues to be reflected in a variety of governments, from the near-anarchy of the early regional bosses (caudillos), to all-powerful personalistic dictators or oligarchic machines, to contemporary mass-movement regimes like Castro's Cuba or Peron's Argentina. Taking a student-friendly chronological approach, Paul Lewis also analyzes how the internal dynamics of each historical phase of the region's development led to the next. He describes how dominant ideologies of the period were used to shape, and justify, each regime's power structure. Balanced yet cautious about the future of democracy in the region, this accessible book will be invaluable for courses on contemporary Latin America.
Latin America s Democratic Crusade
Author | : Allen Wells |
Publsiher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 732 |
Release | : 2023 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780300264401 |
Download Latin America s Democratic Crusade Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
By emphasizing Latin American reformers' decades-long struggle to defeat authoritarianism, this transnational history challenges the timeworn Cold War paradigm and recasts the region's political evolution Scholars persist in framing the Cold War as a battle between left and right, one in which the Global South is cast as either witting or unwitting proxies of Washington and Moscow. What if the era is told from the perspective of the many who preferred reform to revolution? Scholars have routinely neglected, dismissed, or caricatured moderate politicians. In this book, Allen Wells argues that until the Cuban Revolution, the struggle was not between capitalism and communism--that was Washington's abiding preoccupation--but between democracy and dictatorship. Beginning in the 1920s, the fight against authoritarianism was contested on multiple fronts--political, ideological, and cultural--taking on the dimensions of a political crusade. Convinced that despots represented an existential threat, reformers declared that no civilian government was safe until the cancer of dictatorship was excised from the hemisphere. Dictators retaliated, often with deadly results, exporting strategies that had been honed at home to guarantee their political survival. Grafted onto this war without borders was a belated Cold War, with all its political convulsions, the aftershocks of which are still felt today.