Latin American democratic transformations
Subtitle: institutions, actors, and processes
By: edited by William C. Smith.
Contributors: Smith, William C., 1946-
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Chichester, West Sussex, U.K; Malden, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 381
ISBN-13: 9781405197588
Subjects: Democratization -- Latin America; Democracy -- Latin America; Latin America -- Politics and government -- 1980-
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Institutions, Actors, and Processes in the Transformation of Latin American Democracy / William C. Smith; title: Part I: Debates on Democracy and Performance; title: Liberal and Illiberal Democracy in Latin America / Peter H. Smith and Melissa R. Ziegler; title: Neoliberalism and Democracy in Latin America: A Mixed Record / Kurt Weyland; title: The Uneven Performance of Third Wave Democracies: Electoral Politics and the Imperfect Rule of Law in Latin America / Joe Foweraker and Roman Krznaric; title: Part II: Institutions and the Travails of Competitive Politics; title: The Reelection Debate in Latin America / John M. Carey; title: Decentralization's Nondemocratic Roots: Authoritarianism and Subnational Reform tn Latin America / Kent Eaton; title: Institutional Change and Ethnic Parties in South America / Donna Lee Van Cott; title: Expanding Accountability Through Participatory Institutions: Mayors, Citizens, and Budgeting in Three Brazilian Municipalities / Brian Wampler; title: "For a Few Senators More"? Negotiating Constitutional Cbanges During Chile's Transition to Democracy / Fredrik Uggla; title: Judicial Reform as Insurance Policy: Mexico in the 1990s / Jodi S. Finkel; title: Part III: Actors, Participation, and Mass Politics; title: Indigenous Parties and Democracy in Latin America / Raul L. Madrid; title: Defining Rights in Democratization: The Argentine Government and Human Rights Organizations, 1983-2003 / Michelle D. Bonner; title: Sources of Mass Partisanship in Brazil / David Samuels; title: Brazil's Agrarian Reform: Democratic Innovation or Oligarchic Exclusion Redux? / Anthony W. Pereira; title: The Indian Movement and Political Democracy in Ecuador / Leon Zamosc; title: Local Democracy and the Transformation of Popular Participation in Chile / Paul W. Posner; title: Part IV Challenges of Unstructured Political Mobilization; title: Indictments, Myths, and Citizen Mobilization in Argentina: A Discourse Analysis / Ariel C. Armony and Victor Armony; title: Democracy Without Parties? Political Parties and Regime Change in Fujimori's Peru / Steven Levitsky and Maxwell A. Cameron; title: Social Correlates of Party System Demise and Populist Resurgence in Venezuela / Kenneth M. Roberts.