Democracy and the public space in Latin America

This is a bold new study of the recent emergence of democracy in Latin America. Leonardo Avritzer shows that traditional theories of democratization fall short in explaining this phenomenon. Scholars have long held that the postwar stability of Western Europe reveals that restricted democracy, or &q...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Avritzer, Leonardo (-)
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton : Princeton University Press c2002.
Edición:Course Book
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Front matter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • INTRODUCTION
  • ONE. Democratic Theory and Democratization
  • TWO. Democratic Theory and the Formation of a Public Sphere
  • THREE. Democracy and the Latin American Tradition
  • FOUR. The Transformation of the Latin American Public Space
  • FIVE. Democratization in Latin America The Conflict between Public Practices and the Logic of Political Society
  • SIX. Participatory Publics in Brazil and Mexico The Compatibility of Public Deliberation and Complex Administration
  • SEVEN. Concluding Remarks on the Democratizing Role of Participatory Publics
  • NOTES
  • REFERENCES
  • INDEX