Biblioteca Digital de VanguardiaDemocracy 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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Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México
2015
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| author | John A. Booth Leticia Heras-Gómez |
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| 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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| spelling | clacso-CLACSO866302022-03-22T17:34:17Z Democracy in Latin America: status and prospects John A. Booth Leticia Heras-Gómez Sociología democracy political culture social structure Latin America 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 2015 2022-03-22T17:34:17Z 2022-03-22T17:34:17Z artículo científico http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=10532623003 http://biblioteca-repositorio.clacso.edu.ar/handle/CLACSO/86630 en http://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=105 Convergencia. Revista de Ciencias Sociales application/pdf Universidad Autónoma del Estado de México Convergencia. Revista de Ciencias Sociales (México) Num.67 Vol.22 |
| spellingShingle | Sociología democracy political culture social structure Latin America John A. Booth Leticia Heras-Gómez Democracy in Latin America: status and prospects |
| title | Democracy in Latin America: status and prospects |
| title_full | Democracy in Latin America: status and prospects |
| title_fullStr | Democracy in Latin America: status and prospects |
| title_full_unstemmed | Democracy in Latin America: status and prospects |
| title_short | Democracy in Latin America: status and prospects |
| title_sort | democracy in latin america: status and prospects |
| topic | Sociología democracy political culture social structure Latin America |
| url | http://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=10532623003 http://biblioteca-repositorio.clacso.edu.ar/handle/CLACSO/86630 |