num_pages: 360
description: Based on interviews with more than 100 participants, Van Cott demonstrates how social issues were placed on the constitutional reform agenda and transformed into the nation’s highest law. She follows each reform for five years to assess early results of what she calls an emerging model of multicultural constitutionalism.
language: English
title: The Friendly Liquidation of the Past: The Politics of Diversity in Latin America
titlecomplete: The Friendly Liquidation of the Past: The Politics of Diversity in Latin America (Pitt Latin American Series)
ratings_count: 6
series: Pitt Latin American Studies
publisher: University of Pittsburgh Press