Trouble in Central America

Guatemala on the Brink

Datos Bibliográficos

ID6288345
AutoresAnna Isaacs (0000-0001-6578-4967, autor de correspondencia), Anita Isaacs
Año2010
Volumen21
Número2
Páginas108-122
Fecha de publicación2010-04-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessSí
TipoARTICLE
RevistaJournal of democracy (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 1045-5736 • E-ISSN: 1086-3214
EditorialProject MUSE (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1353/jod.0.0156
OpenAlexW1977303192
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas10
Referencias citadas1

Thirteen years after the signing of peace, Guatemalan democracy remains tentative and fragile. Formal democratic procedures are observed, formally democratic institutions are in place and levels of social organization and political participation have substantially increased. Yet these advances barely conceal a state captive to organized crime, a poorly representative and responsive political party system and a fragmented civil society in which the marginalized indigenous population struggles to make its voice heard. The democratic challenges reflect a polity and a society in which exclusionary patterns and structures of power prevail and in which the ethnic and class divisions that fueled 36 years of armed conflict remain perilously close to the surface

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