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  • Democracy in Hard Places

    by Scott Mainwaring, Tarek Masoud ...
    The last fifteen years have witnessed a "democratic recession." Democracies previously thought to be well-established--Hungary, Poland, Brazil, and even the United States--have been threatened by the rise of ultra-nationalist and populist leaders who pay lip-service to the will of the people while daily undermining the freedom and pluralism that are the foundations of democratic governance. The ... Read more

    $21.89 USD

  • Democratic Accountability in Latin America

    Edited by Scott Mainwaring, Christopher Welna ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Democratization
    This volume on democratic accountability addresses one of the burning issues on the agenda of policy makers and citizens in contemporary Latin America. In much of Latin America, disenchantment and cynicism have set in regarding the quality of elected governments raising the prospect of a new round of democratic erosion and breakdowns. One of the important emerging challenges for improving the ... Read more

    $89.09 USD

  • Democracies and Dictatorships in Latin America

    Emergence, Survival, and Fall

    by Scott Mainwaring, Aníbal Pérez-Liñán ...
    This book presents a new theory for why political regimes emerge, and why they subsequently survive or break down. It then analyzes the emergence, survival and fall of democracies and dictatorships in Latin America since 1900. Scott Mainwaring and Aníbal Pérez-Liñán argue for a theoretical approach situated between long-term structural and cultural explanations and short-term explanations that ... Read more

    $35.29 USD

  • Politics, Society, And Democracy Latin America

    by Scott Mainwaring ...
    This is the third of four volumes compiled in honor of Juan J. Linz and edited by H. E. Chehabi, Richard Gunther, Alfred Stepan, and Arturo Valenzuela. Each volume presents original research and theoretical essays by Linz's distinguished collaborators, students, teachers, and friends, as well as overviews of his enormous contributions to Spanish and Latin American studies, comparative politics, ... Read more

    $65.99 USD

  • Reflections on Uneven Democracies

    The Legacy of Guillermo O'Donnell

    Edited by Daniel Brinks, Marcelo Leiras, Scott Mainwaring ...
    A tour-de-force analysis of the current state of democracy studies as seen through the scholarly legacy of Guillermo O’Donnell.Winner of the CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title of the Choice ACRLThe third wave of democratization produced a wealth of enduring social science. Beginning in the 1970s, it prompted scholars to develop important theories on authoritarian breakdowns and transitions to ... Read more

    $31.19 USD

  • Democracy in Latin America

    Between Hope and Despair

    Translated by Scott Mainwaring ...
    by Ignacio Walker ...
    Series series Kellogg Institute Series on Democracy and Development
    In 2009, Ignacio Walker—scholar, politician, and one of Latin America’s leading public intellectuals—published La Democracia en América Latina. Now available in English, with a new prologue, and significantly revised and updated for an English-speaking audience, Democracy in Latin America: Between Hope and Despair contributes to the necessary and urgent task of exploring both the possibilities and ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Life after Dictatorship

    Authoritarian Successor Parties Worldwide

    Edited by James Loxton, Scott Mainwaring ...
    Life after Dictatorship launches a new research agenda on authoritarian successor parties worldwide. Authoritarian successor parties are parties that emerge from authoritarian regimes, but that operate after a transition to democracy. They are one of the most common but overlooked features of the global democratic landscape. They are major actors in Africa, Asia, Europe, and Latin America, and ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Party Systems in Latin America

    Institutionalization, Decay, and Collapse

    Edited by Scott Mainwaring ...
    Based on contributions from leading scholars, this study generates a wealth of new empirical information about Latin American party systems. It also contributes richly to major theoretical and comparative debates about the effects of party systems on democratic politics, and about why some party systems are much more stable and predictable than others. Party Systems in Latin America builds on, ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

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  • Falling Behind

    Explaining the Development Gap Between Latin America and the United States

    Edited by Francis Fukuyama ...
    In 1700, Latin America and British North America were roughly equal in economic terms. Yet over the next three centuries, the United States gradually pulled away from Latin America, and today the gap between the two is huge. Why did this happen? Was it culture? Geography? Economic policies? Natural resources? Differences in political development? The question has occupied scholars for decades, and ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • The Internationalization of Palace Wars

    Lawyers, Economists, and the Contest to Transform Latin American States

    by Yves Dezalay, Bryant G. Garth ...
    Series series Chicago Series in Law and Society
    How does globalization work? Focusing on Latin America, Yves Dezalay and Bryant G. Garth show that exports of expertise and ideals from the United States to Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico have played a crucial role in transforming their state forms and economies since World War II.Based on more than 300 extensive interviews with major players in governments, foundations, law firms, ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Promise Of Development

    Theories Of Change In Latin America

    by Peter F Klaren, Thomas J Bossert ...
    In recent years Latin Americanists have been among the most innovative and productive theorists of the uneven process of development. This collection of substantial selections from some of the most prominent theorists in the field represents a scholarly consolidation and reassessment of the controversies concerning the development of Latin America. Beginning with a historiographic overview, the ... Read more

    $70.99 USD

  • Populism in Europe and the Americas

    Threat or Corrective for Democracy?

    Edited by Cas Mudde, Cristóbal Rovira Kaltwasser ...
    Although 'populism' has become something of a buzzword in discussions about politics, it tends to be studied by country or region. This is the first book to offer a genuine cross-regional perspective on populism and its impact on democracy. By analyzing current experiences of populism in Europe and the Americas, this edited volume convincingly demonstrates that populism can be both a threat and a ... Read more

    $38.59 USD