Democracy and the Public Space in Latin America
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: April 1, 2002
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 205
ISBN-13: 9780691090870
Subjects: Political ideologies; Political structures: democracy; Political Science; International Relations - General; Politics / Current Events; Politics/International Relations; Latin America; Political aspects; Government - Comparative; Political Ideologies - Democracy; Latin American Studies; Political Science / International Relations; Political Science and International Relations; Collective behavior; Democracy; Political culture
First sentence: The recent process of democratization in Latin America is part of what has been called the third wave of democratization (Huntington, 1991), a concept which involves the idea that democracy, throughout the twentieth century, spread itself across the world in three waves, each one possessing essentially the same features.