Building Democracy in Latin America

From: Journal of Third World Studies | Date: April 1, 2000| Author: | Copyright information

Peeler, John. Building Democracy in Latin America. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner Publishers, 1998. 240 pp.

Much scholarship on Latin America has suggested that, to varying degrees, democracy is unattainable in the region, that the history, culture, and "centralist traditions" of Latin America are not commensurate with the development and maintenance of democratic government. However, this book has a much more positive outlook for democracy. The author believes that democracy is not only a reasonable objective for the entire region, but in his study of the Latin American experience he finds the ...

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