| Description |
xviii, 413 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Note |
Originated in a conference held Apr. 23-24, 2001, University of Notre Dame. |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (p. 363-398) and index. |
| Contents |
Latin American democratizaion since 1978: democratic transitions, breakdowns, and erosions / Scott Mainwaring, Anibal Perez-Liņan -- Argentina: democratic survival amidst economic failure / Steven Levitsky -- Growing sustainability of Brazil's low-quality democracy / Kurt Weyland -- Demise of Mexico's one-party dominant regime: elite choices and the masses in the establishment of democracy / Beatriz Magaloni -- Bolivia's democracy at the crossroads / Rene Antonio Mayorga -- Challenges to political democracy in El Salvador / Elisabeth Jean Wood -- Democracy on ice: the multiple challenges of Guatemala's peace process / Mitchell A. Seligson -- From "restricted" to "beseiged": the changing nature of the limits to democracy in Columbia / Ana Maria Bejarano, Eduardo Pizarro -- Peru 1980-2000: chronicle of a death foretold? Determinism, political decisions, and open outcomes / Martin Tanaka -- Explaining democratic deterioration in Venezuela through nested inference / Michael Coppedge. |
| Subject |
Democratization -- Latin America.
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Democratization -- Latin America -- History -- 20th century.
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Latin America -- Politics and government -- 1980-
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| Added Author |
Hagopian, Frances.
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Mainwaring, Scott, 1954-
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| ISBN |
0521613205 (PB) |
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0521824613 (HB) |
| Standard No. |
9780521824613 |
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9780521613200 |
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NLGGC 272163872 |
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