Democracy in Latin America: Surviving Conflict and Crisis?ISBN: 978-0-7456-2759-5
Hardcover
232 pages
June 2003, Polity
Other Available Formats: Paperback
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In the first part of the book, George Philip identifies the
reasons why this should be so. The chapters are organised around
relevant historical and institutional factors, such as problems
with law enforcement and political tensions inherent in some Latin
American variants of presidentialism, authoritarian legacies and
patrimonial bureaucracies, civil-military relations, market reform
and international intervention. Globalization has exacerbated these
difficulties, since it has aggravated the already acute problems of
governance facing emerging democracies. The second part of the book
explores these issues in relation to a series of case studies
involving Peru, Mexico and Venezuela.
This will be an ideal textbook for students taking courses in Latin American politics and Latin American Studies.