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portada Between Tyranny and Anarchy: A History of Democracy in Latin America, 1800-2006 (Social Science History)
Type
Physical Book
Year
2009
Language
English
Pages
346
Format
Paperback
Dimensions
22.6 x 15.2 x 2.3 cm
Weight
0.43 kg.
ISBN
0804760020
ISBN13
9780804760027
Edition No.
1

Between Tyranny and Anarchy: A History of Democracy in Latin America, 1800-2006 (Social Science History)

Paul W. Drake (Author) · Stanford University Press · Paperback

Between Tyranny and Anarchy: A History of Democracy in Latin America, 1800-2006 (Social Science History) - Drake, Paul W.

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Synopsis "Between Tyranny and Anarchy: A History of Democracy in Latin America, 1800-2006 (Social Science History)"

Between Tyranny and Anarchy provides a unique comprehensive history and interpretation of efforts to establish democracies over two centuries in the major Latin American countries. Drake takes an unusual interdisciplinary approach, combining history and political science with an emphasis on political institutions. He argues that, without a thorough examination of the historical roots and causes of Latin American democracy, most general theories can not adequately explain its failures, successes, and forms. Latin America offers an extraordinary laboratory for the study of democratic experiments. Alongside a well-deserved reputation for authoritarianism, it boasts one of the world's deepest, richest histories of democratic movements, ideas, and institutions. Contrary to conventional wisdom, the region's leading democracies did not lag very far behind the United States and Western Europe in making numerous advances. In comparison with those countries, though, Latin America's democratic history has been distinctive because of its fundamental dilemma: how to reconcile political systems theoretically committed to legal equality with societies divided by extreme socio-economic inequalities.

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