Democracy in Latin America: status and prospects

The purpose of this essay is to examine the status of democracy in Latin American countries as well as the prospects upcoming for the region in the present decade. We will provide a map of the subject that includes a basic definition of democracy, an overview of theories about how democracies arise...

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Autores principales: Leticia Heras-Gómez, John A. Booth
Formato: Artículo científico
Publicado: Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México 2015
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Acceso en línea:http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=10532623003
http://biblioteca.clacso.edu.ar/gsdl/cgi-bin/library.cgi?a=d&c=mx/mx-014&d=10532623003oai
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topic Sociología
democracy
political culture
social structure
Latin America
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democracy
political culture
social structure
Latin America
Leticia Heras-Gómez
John A. Booth
Democracy in Latin America: status and prospects
topic_facet Sociología
democracy
political culture
social structure
Latin America
description The purpose of this essay is to examine the status of democracy in Latin American countries as well as the prospects upcoming for the region in the present decade. We will provide a map of the subject that includes a basic definition of democracy, an overview of theories about how democracies arise and may be maintained, as a continuum, and a review of what we know empirically about Latin American democratization. We suggest a model in which political culture and social structure influence each other, and that both directly influence political processes, which in turn mediates between these causal factors and the actual emergence of democratic rules of the political game in every particular country. The approach is completed with a series of lapop Data that shows up how far and in what direction democracy is taking place in Latin
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John A. Booth
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title Democracy in Latin America: status and prospects
title_short Democracy in Latin America: status and prospects
title_full Democracy in Latin America: status and prospects
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publisher Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México
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