Constructing democratic governance in Latin America
By: edited by Jorge I. Dominguez and Michael Shifter
Edition: Fourth edition.
Publisher: John Hopkins University Press
Published: 2013
Place of publication: Baltimore
Language: eng
Number of pages: 377
ISBN-13: 9781421409795; 9781421409801
Subjects: Politics and government; Democracy
Description: "After more than a century of assorted dictatorships and innumerable fiscal crises, the majority of Latin America's states are governed today by constitutional democratic regimes. Some analysts and scholars argue that Latin America weathered the 2008 fiscal crisis much better than the United States. How did this happen? Jorge I. Domínguez and Michael Shifter asked area specialists to examine the electoral and governance factors that shed light on this transformation and the region's prospects. They gather their findings in the fourth edition of Constructing Democratic Governance in Latin America."--page [4] of cover.
Notes: "An Inter-American Dialogue Book."

Includes bibliographic references and index.