John A Booth
Biographic Data
| ID | 662943 |
|---|---|
| NAME | John A Booth |
| GIVEN NAMES | John A |
| FAMILY NAME | Booth |
| SIGNATURE | BOOTH J A |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of North Texas |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-8103-0292 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 58 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 318 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 58 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1770 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 10 |
Support for Coups in the Americas: Mass Norms and Democratization
Coups d'état, once a common end for democracies in the Americas, have declined sharply in recent years. This article investigates whether overall public support for coups is also in decline. Examining 21 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean from 2004 to 2014 helps to evaluate two alternative theses on democratization: Mainwaring and Pérez-Liñán's 2013 normative regime preferences theory, which inquires (but does not test) whether public o…
Democracy in Latin America: Status and prospects
El propósito de este ensayo es examinar el estatus democrático de los países latinoamericanos, así como las perspectivas de avance de la democracia en la región para la presente década. Ofrecemos un mapa del objeto de estudio que incluye una definición básica de democracia, un panorama de las teorías acerca del desarrollo de la democracia y como ésta puede ser mantenida, como un continuum, y una revisión de lo que conocemos empíricamente sobre la…
Untangling Social and Political Capital in Latin American Democracies
Robert Putnam extolled the virtue of social capital by arguing that social networks, civil society, and trust contribute to democracy. Subsequent research, however, identified a weakness in the social capital "model" in its underspecification of the mechanisms by which social capital affects political systems. This article proposes the concept of political capital as a likely product of social capital that links civil society participants to the …
C. Neal Tate
C. Neal Tate, born October 17, 1943, passed away September 13, 2009, in Nashville, Tennessee. At the time of his death, Neal was the Alexander Heard Distinguished Service Professor, professor of political science, and professor of law at Vanderbilt University, where he had also served as chair of the political science department since 2003. He had previously served on the faculty of the University of North Texas from 1970 through 2003. With a dee…
Micro-social and Contextual Sources of Democratic Attitudes in Latin America
Many Latin American countries democratized between 1975 and 2000, and research has confirmed that contemporary Latin Americans hold democratic political attitudes. Using AmericasBarometer surveys of 18 countries from 2008, we examine the commitment of Latin Americans to three democratic attitudes – preference for democracy over other forms of government, support for general participation rights, and tolerance for participation by system critics. …
Trouble in Central America: Crime, Hard Times, and Discontent
Central America confronts two key challenges, one stemming from the global economic crisis and the other from escalating levels of criminal and gang-related violence. Within the region, however, there is wide variation of the impacts of both challenges, with some countries doing far better than others. AmericasBarometer survey data reveal that public levels of frustration with economic performance and institutions and support for democracy vary c…
The Legitimacy Puzzle in Latin America: Political Support and Democracy in Eight Nations
Political scientists have worried about declining levels of citizens' support for their regimes (legitimacy), but have failed to empirically link this decline to the survival or breakdown of democracy. This apparent paradox is the 'legitimacy puzzle', which this book addresses by examining political legitimacy's structure, sources, and effects. With exhaustive empirical analysis of high-quality survey data from eight Latin American nations, it co…
Democratic Development in Costa Rica1
This article considers structural, process, and cultural theories of democratization to explore how Costa Rica's transition to and survival as a democracy might be deviant. A review of Costa Rican political-economic history from colonization in the early 16th to the mid-20th century describes the development of the post-independence oligarchy of the coffee-grower elite, emerging challenges from new middle and working class forces from 1889 to 194…
Determinants of regime type in newly independent states
Since 1945, newly independent states have differed from longer lived states in their greater risk of violent conflict and more challenging environment for democratisation. The authors of this article theorise that certain economic, demographic, violence‐related and external factors should affect the regime type (level of democracy versus autocracy) in newly independent states. Examining exclusively newly independent states that have undergone maj…
Political Movements and Violence in Central America by Charles D. Brockett
Journal Article Political Movements and Violence in Central America by Charles D. Brockett Get access Political Movements and Violence in Central America by Charles D. Brockett. New York, Cambridge University Press, 2005. 408 pp. Cloth, $75.00; paper, $29.99. John A. Booth John A. Booth University of North Texas Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Political Science Quarterly, Volume 121, Issue 1, Spring 2006, …
Os contornos da cidadania crítica: Explorando a Legitimidade Democrática
Recentes quedas acentuadas da confiança no governo dos públicos de massa de democracias institucionalizadas reacenderam o interesse pela teoria e pesquisa sobre a legitimidade. Há muito tempo os teóricos concebem a legitimidade política como multidimensional e sustentam que ela vai do apoio abstrato a uma comunidade política subjacente aos princípios do regime à avaliação mais concreta do desempenho do regime, das instituições e dos atores. Porém…
Revolution's Legacy: Residual Effects on Nicaraguan Participation and Attitudes in Comparative Context
A longstanding scholarly debate asks what lasting changes revolution makes in political attitudes and behaviors. Scholars generally regard revolution as transformative, but research on revolution's behavioral and cultural legacies after transfers of state power has been limited. This study explores revolution's residual impact on individuals' electoral participation, civil society engagement, and social capital by comparing postrevolutionary Nica…
Through Revolution and Beyond: Mobilization, Demobilization, and Adjustment in Central America
Beyond the Barricades: Nicaragua and the Struggle for the Sandinista Press, 1979-1998. By Adam Jones. (Athens: Ohio University Center for International Studies, Research in International Studies - Ohio University Press, 2002. Pp. 308. $30.00 paper.) Mothers of Heroes and Martyrs: Gender Identity Politics in Nicaragua, 1979-1999. By Lorraine Bayard de Volo. (Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 2001. Pp. 293, $24.95 paper.) After the…
Political Legitimacy and Participation in Costa Rica: Evidence of Arena Shopping
Considerable research has failed to establish a link between political legitimacy and system breakdown. This does not mean, however, that researchers should abandon the concept of legitimacy altogether, since it may have other important effects that shape the character of the political system. We explore the impact, or lack thereof, of legitimacy on citizen behavior. Specifically, we test the proposition that legitimacy may have complex effects b…
A formação do capital social na América Central: Violência Política, Repressão, Dor E Perda
A repressão do Estado procura dissuadir os cidadãos de se oporem ao regime e seus programas e fazer com que a sociedade civil e o capital social sirvam aos seus propósitos. Essa repressão pode ir de formas leves de coerção e intimidação ao extremo de infligir dor física aos cidadãos. Os insurgentes também podem reprimir e infligir dor aos cidadãos e assim moldar seus comportamentos e atitudes. Nas décadas de 1980 e 1990, os Estados da América Cen…
After the Fall: Recent Scholarship on Nicaragua and the Revolution
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Global Forces and Regime Change: Guatemala in the Central American Context
Drawing on theories of regime change, revolution, and democratization, this paper proposes a process theory to account for the 12 major regime transformations that have occurred in Central America since 1970. Political regimes, coherent systems of rule established among a coalition of dominant political actors, change when their prevailing political rules and their ruling coalitions undergo transformation. External forces are important to this pr…
Democracy in Developing Countries: Latin America, 2nd ed.
Extensively revised since the first edition was published in 1989, this analytically balanced and empirically rich volume thoroughly examines the historical, cultural, social, economic, political, and international factors that affect both the prospects for and the nature of political democracy in Latin America. The book reflects improvements in democratic trends in some countries, but also the erosion of democratic advances in others, with subst…
Civil Society, Political Capital, and Democratization in Central America
Robert Putnam argues that civil society-citizen organizational activity-contributes to successful governance and democracy, outcomes potentially helpful in reconstructing Central America. Putnam does not, however, specify how civil society shapes government performance. We demonstrate how group participation might impinge upon the state through the "political capital" of political participation and democratic norms. We first explore the relations…
Civil Society and Political Context in Central America
Putnam argues that civil society-citizen activity in organizations-contributes to successful governance, but he does not specify in detail how this occurs. This article spells out how citizens' participation in groups might impinge on the state through both political participation and democratic norms. The authors consider not only Putnam's social capital but add new "political capital" variables. The relationships among civil society and social …
The Nicaraguan elections of October 1996
Elections and Democracy in Central America, Revisited
Repression, Participation and Democratic Norms in Urban Central America
Theory: Few studies have examined political repression's effects upon individual behavior and attitudes. We theorize that regimes use repression to constrain political behavior and values so as to limit demands and opposition. We therefore expect intense repression to reduce participation and support for democracy. Hypotheses: Using six Central American countries for a most-similar systems test, we hypothesize that, other factors held constant, b…
Political Parties and Democracy in Central America. Louis W. Goodman , William M. LeoGrande , Johanna Mendelson Forman
Assessing Candiate Preference Polling and Other Survey Research in Nicaragua, 1989-90: Comments on Anderson, and Bischoping and Schuman
Both Katherine Bischoping and Howard Schuman (1992) and Leslie Anderson in her comment here (1994b) note the confusion engendered by numerous and hotly debated preelection presidential preference polls conducted in the months before Nicaragua's 25 February 1990 national election. Certain polls (some overtly and publicly associated with opposition forces) predicted a comfortable victory for Violeta Barrios de Chamorro's National Opposition Union (…
Civil Society, Political Capital, and Democratization in Central America
Robert Putnam argues that civil society-citizen organizational activity-contributes to successful governance and democracy, outcomes potentially helpful in reconstructing Central America. Putnam does not, however, specify how civil society shapes government performance. We demonstrate how group participation might impinge upon the state through the "political capital" of political participation and democratic norms. We first explore the relations…
Political Culture and Regime Type: Evidence from Nicaragua and Costa Rica
Political science has long attempted to link the development of a civic culture to the emergence and stability of democratic political systems. This paper uses recent survey data from Nicaragua and Costa Rica to examine this linkage by testing the thesis that Costa Rica, Latin America's oldest democracy, should exhibit higher levels of support for democratic norms than would Nicaragua, a country that up through the date of the survey (1989) had n…
Micro-social and Contextual Sources of Democratic Attitudes in Latin America
Many Latin American countries democratized between 1975 and 2000, and research has confirmed that contemporary Latin Americans hold democratic political attitudes. Using AmericasBarometer surveys of 18 countries from 2008, we examine the commitment of Latin Americans to three democratic attitudes – preference for democracy over other forms of government, support for general participation rights, and tolerance for participation by system critics. …
Political Legitimacy and Participation in Costa Rica: Evidence of Arena Shopping
Considerable research has failed to establish a link between political legitimacy and system breakdown. This does not mean, however, that researchers should abandon the concept of legitimacy altogether, since it may have other important effects that shape the character of the political system. We explore the impact, or lack thereof, of legitimacy on citizen behavior. Specifically, we test the proposition that legitimacy may have complex effects b…
Repression, Participation and Democratic Norms in Urban Central America
Theory: Few studies have examined political repression's effects upon individual behavior and attitudes. We theorize that regimes use repression to constrain political behavior and values so as to limit demands and opposition. We therefore expect intense repression to reduce participation and support for democracy. Hypotheses: Using six Central American countries for a most-similar systems test, we hypothesize that, other factors held constant, b…
Socioeconomic and Political Roots of National Revolts in Central America
Since the mid-1970s, tens of thousands of persons in three out of the five Central American countries have revolted against their governments or fought to repress such rebellions. These conflicts have cost more than a quarter of a million lives and created more than two million internal and external refugees. In 1979 a bloody insurrection toppled Nicaragua's Somoza regime. El Salvador's crippling civil war has escalated and reescalated but remain…
Civil Society and Political Context in Central America
Putnam argues that civil society-citizen activity in organizations-contributes to successful governance, but he does not specify in detail how this occurs. This article spells out how citizens' participation in groups might impinge on the state through both political participation and democratic norms. The authors consider not only Putnam's social capital but add new "political capital" variables. The relationships among civil society and social …
Understanding Central America
Crisis and Transformation Poverty and Its Causes The Common History Individual Histories of Central American Nations Revolution, Regime Change, and Democratization: A Theory Revolution and Democratic Transition in Nicaragua Insurrection and Regime Change in El Salvador Insurrection and Regime Change in Guatemala Maintaining Stability in Costa Rica and Honduras Power, Democracy, and U.S. Policy in Central America Reflections and Projections
Peasants As Activists: A Reevaluation of Political Participation in the Countryside
S ocial scientists have long characterized peasants as politically passive and uninvolved in day to day political activity. Latin American peasants in particular have been singled out as politically nonparticipant. For example, anthropologists Diaz and Potter (1967: 159) state that In Latin America . . . the striking thing is the relative absence of a sense of association, which makes it extremely difficult lor peasants in thisarea to organize to…
Political Participation in Latin America: An Agenda for Research
The study of political participation in Latin America has, until very recently, been too narrowly conceived by social scientists, focusing largely on elites and violence. The former is illustrated by studies of the military (Lieuwen, 1961, 1966; Johnson, 1964; Horowitz, 1967; Fagen and Cornelius, 1970; Schmitter, 1973), the Church (Dillon Soares, 1967; Solari, 1967; Petersen, 1970; Suchlicki, 1972), industrialists (Cardoso, 1967; Polit, 1968; Pet…
Political Participation in Latin America: Levels, Structure, Context, Concentration and Rationality
Despite calls to improve and systematize research on political participation in Latin America more than a decade ago (Kling 1964, Flores Olea 1967), the burgeoning literature on the subject has yet to achieve full recognition. Thus certain contradictory and incomplete traditional images still linger in the scholarly literature (Booth and Seligson 1978a). These treatments vary dramatically and almost bewilderingly: while one suggests that Latin Am…
Os contornos da cidadania crítica: Explorando a Legitimidade Democrática
Recentes quedas acentuadas da confiança no governo dos públicos de massa de democracias institucionalizadas reacenderam o interesse pela teoria e pesquisa sobre a legitimidade. Há muito tempo os teóricos concebem a legitimidade política como multidimensional e sustentam que ela vai do apoio abstrato a uma comunidade política subjacente aos princípios do regime à avaliação mais concreta do desempenho do regime, das instituições e dos atores. Porém…
A Replication: Modes of Political Participation in Costa Rica
Support for Coups in the Americas: Mass Norms and Democratization
Coups d'état, once a common end for democracies in the Americas, have declined sharply in recent years. This article investigates whether overall public support for coups is also in decline. Examining 21 countries in Latin America and the Caribbean from 2004 to 2014 helps to evaluate two alternative theses on democratization: Mainwaring and Pérez-Liñán's 2013 normative regime preferences theory, which inquires (but does not test) whether public o…
Trouble in Central America: Crime, Hard Times, and Discontent
Central America confronts two key challenges, one stemming from the global economic crisis and the other from escalating levels of criminal and gang-related violence. Within the region, however, there is wide variation of the impacts of both challenges, with some countries doing far better than others. AmericasBarometer survey data reveal that public levels of frustration with economic performance and institutions and support for democracy vary c…
Understanding Central America
A Guatemalan Nightmare: Levels of Political Violence, 1966-1972
Since the late sixties, Guatemalans have murdered each other at an astonishing rate. This wave of politically related terrorism and assassinations began to grow rapidly in 1966 and has continued, fluctuating in intensity, to the present. In 1967, for instance, incidents of violence averaged 70 per month, causing some 30 monthly deaths; in 1971 the figures had risen 60%. This article describes the historical antecedents of this conflict, its devel…
Democratic Development in Costa Rica1
This article considers structural, process, and cultural theories of democratization to explore how Costa Rica's transition to and survival as a democracy might be deviant. A review of Costa Rican political-economic history from colonization in the early 16th to the mid-20th century describes the development of the post-independence oligarchy of the coffee-grower elite, emerging challenges from new middle and working class forces from 1889 to 194…
Revolution's Legacy: Residual Effects on Nicaraguan Participation and Attitudes in Comparative Context
A longstanding scholarly debate asks what lasting changes revolution makes in political attitudes and behaviors. Scholars generally regard revolution as transformative, but research on revolution's behavioral and cultural legacies after transfers of state power has been limited. This study explores revolution's residual impact on individuals' electoral participation, civil society engagement, and social capital by comparing postrevolutionary Nica…
The Nicaraguan elections of October 1996
Rural Violence in Colombia: 1948-1963
Bw ETWEEN the years 1948 and 1963 rural Colombia was lashed by political conflict so intense that it has become known by its generic name, la Violencia. The dimensions of this orgy of guerrilla warfare, assassination, extortion, torture, and mass murder have prompted one observer to state: No other country in Latin America and few nations of the world have in mid-twentieth century experienced internal violence and guerrilla warfare as has Colombi…
Untangling Social and Political Capital in Latin American Democracies
Robert Putnam extolled the virtue of social capital by arguing that social networks, civil society, and trust contribute to democracy. Subsequent research, however, identified a weakness in the social capital "model" in its underspecification of the mechanisms by which social capital affects political systems. This article proposes the concept of political capital as a likely product of social capital that links civil society participants to the …
Determinants of regime type in newly independent states
Since 1945, newly independent states have differed from longer lived states in their greater risk of violent conflict and more challenging environment for democratisation. The authors of this article theorise that certain economic, demographic, violence‐related and external factors should affect the regime type (level of democracy versus autocracy) in newly independent states. Examining exclusively newly independent states that have undergone maj…
A formação do capital social na América Central: Violência Política, Repressão, Dor E Perda
A repressão do Estado procura dissuadir os cidadãos de se oporem ao regime e seus programas e fazer com que a sociedade civil e o capital social sirvam aos seus propósitos. Essa repressão pode ir de formas leves de coerção e intimidação ao extremo de infligir dor física aos cidadãos. Os insurgentes também podem reprimir e infligir dor aos cidadãos e assim moldar seus comportamentos e atitudes. Nas décadas de 1980 e 1990, os Estados da América Cen…
Understanding Central America
XXXV. Part of a Letter to Mr. Joseph Ames, concerning some Arabic and Roman Numerals found on a Stone, in the Foundation of the Black Swan Inn, in Holborn
As the Workmen (May 4, 1756) were digging up part of the old Foundation of the Black Swan Inn, in Holborn, they met with a stone, which was strongly cemented with bricks, chalk, and other stones, like those they call ragg stones, that it was with great difficulty the pick-ax could make any impression or separate them. This stone was at the bottom of a great pile of this rubbish, if I may so call it, and was about eighteen inches long, but acciden…
Rural Violence in Colombia: 1948-1963
Bw ETWEEN the years 1948 and 1963 rural Colombia was lashed by political conflict so intense that it has become known by its generic name, la Violencia. The dimensions of this orgy of guerrilla warfare, assassination, extortion, torture, and mass murder have prompted one observer to state: No other country in Latin America and few nations of the world have in mid-twentieth century experienced internal violence and guerrilla warfare as has Colombi…
Urban Guerrilla Warfare in Latin America
A Replication: Modes of Political Participation in Costa Rica
Political Participation in Latin America: An Agenda for Research
The study of political participation in Latin America has, until very recently, been too narrowly conceived by social scientists, focusing largely on elites and violence. The former is illustrated by studies of the military (Lieuwen, 1961, 1966; Johnson, 1964; Horowitz, 1967; Fagen and Cornelius, 1970; Schmitter, 1973), the Church (Dillon Soares, 1967; Solari, 1967; Petersen, 1970; Suchlicki, 1972), industrialists (Cardoso, 1967; Polit, 1968; Pet…
Political Participation in Latin America. Vol. I: Citizen and State
Political Participation in Latin America: Levels, Structure, Context, Concentration and Rationality
Despite calls to improve and systematize research on political participation in Latin America more than a decade ago (Kling 1964, Flores Olea 1967), the burgeoning literature on the subject has yet to achieve full recognition. Thus certain contradictory and incomplete traditional images still linger in the scholarly literature (Booth and Seligson 1978a). These treatments vary dramatically and almost bewilderingly: while one suggests that Latin Am…
Peasants As Activists: A Reevaluation of Political Participation in the Countryside
S ocial scientists have long characterized peasants as politically passive and uninvolved in day to day political activity. Latin American peasants in particular have been singled out as politically nonparticipant. For example, anthropologists Diaz and Potter (1967: 159) state that In Latin America . . . the striking thing is the relative absence of a sense of association, which makes it extremely difficult lor peasants in thisarea to organize to…
The Politics of Latin American Development
A Guatemalan Nightmare: Levels of Political Violence, 1966-1972
Since the late sixties, Guatemalans have murdered each other at an astonishing rate. This wave of politically related terrorism and assassinations began to grow rapidly in 1966 and has continued, fluctuating in intensity, to the present. In 1967, for instance, incidents of violence averaged 70 per month, causing some 30 monthly deaths; in 1971 the figures had risen 60%. This article describes the historical antecedents of this conflict, its devel…
Political Participation in Latin America. Vol. II: Politics and the Poor
Nicaragua: The Land of Sandino
Celebrating the Demise of Somocismo Fifty Recent Spanish Sources on the Nicaraguan Revolution
Nicaraguans and other Central Americans danced in the streets on 19 July 1979 when the regime of Anastasio Somoza Debayle collapsed. They soon did more than just dance, however-they published. Thousands of pages flowed from the pens of dozens of authors, most ecstatic about the fall of the forty-five year dynasty and many full of hope for the Sandinista revolution. This review lists and briefly describes, according to several broad themes, over f…
Sandino
Sandino, Today and Forever. 1981. Produced by Tercer Cine and directed by Jan Kees de Rooy: Thank God and the Revolution. 1981. Produced by Tercer Cine and directed by Wolf Tirado and Jackie Reiter : …
The Political Culture of Authoritarianism in Mexico: A Reexamination
Despite certain early efforts to interpret Mexico as a pluralist constitutional democracy, or democracy-in-the-making (Scott 1959; Tucker 1957), scholars today almost universally agree that the political system of Mexico is authoritarian. The trappings of Mexico's liberal constitution and elections notwithstanding, Mexico's Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) serves to integrate the polity under the highly centralized control of a single i…
The Politics of San Antonio: Community, Progress, & Power
From the Ashes: Nicaragua Today .: Los Hijos de Sandino . A film by Fred Barney and Kimberly Safford. : Los Hijos de Sandino . 1980. A film by Fred Barney and Kimberly Safford
The Politics of San Antonio: Community, Progress, and Power
Journal Article The Politics of San Antonio: Community, Progress, and Power Get access The Politics of San Antonio: Community, Progress, and Power. Edited by Johnson David R. Booth John A. Harris Richard J.. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 1984. xi + 248 pp. Maps, charts, tables, notes. $24.50, cloth; $10.95, paper.) Robert Goldberg Robert Goldberg University of Utah Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar…
War and the Nicaraguan Revolution
Research Article| December 01 1986 War and the Nicaraguan Revolution John A. Booth John A. Booth Professor of Political Science, North Texas State University John A. Booth is the author of The End and the Beginning: The Nicaraguan Revolution, 2d ed. (Boulder: Westview Press, 1985) and coeditor of Political Participation in Latin America, Vols. 1 and 2 (New York: Holmes and Meier, 1978, 1979). He is chairman of the department of political science …
The End and the Beginning: The Nicaraguan Revolution
The Nicaraguan Revolution
Booth, John A. (1985), The End and the Beginning, The Nicaraguan Revolution, 2nd Edn, Westview Press (Boulder and London). 363 pp. ?43, pbk ?15. Barraclough, Solon and others (1988), Aid That Counts, The Western Contribution to Development and Survival in Nicaragua, Trans? national Institute (Amsterdam) and Coordinadora Regional de Investigaciones Economicas y Sociales (Managua). 157 pp. ?4.95. Close, David (1988), Nicaragua: Politics, Economics …
Democracy in Developing Countries: Latin America
Following a common analytical framework, the authors trace the experiences with democratic and authoritarian rule and assess the underlying causes of democratic success and failure in ten Latin American countries.
Elections and Democracy in Central America
Sandino without Frontiers: Selected Writings of Augusto Cesar Sandino on Internationalism, Pan-Americanism, and Social Questions. With Essays by Carlos Fonseca and Sergio Ramirez
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