Politics and Social Change in Latin America
Subtitle: Still a Distinct Tradition? Fourth Edition, Revised and Updated
Contributors: Howard J. Wiarda (Editor); Margaret MacLeish Mott (Editor)
Edition: 4 Rev Upd edition
Publisher: Praeger Paperback
Published: October 30, 2003
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 328
ISBN-13: 9780275970338
Subjects: POLITICS & GOVERNMENT; Sociology, Social Studies; Political Science; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; Ethnic Studies - General; Government - Comparative; Political Process - General; Political Science / Foreign Legal Systems; Latin America; Politics and government; Social conditions
First sentence: In an effort to rid the discipline of ethnocentric tendencies, political scientists, in the business of comparing political systems, have struggled to put together a model of political development that explains Latin America's experience as something distinct from, but parallel to, that of Western Europe and the United States.