Trouble in Central America

Guatemala on the Brink

Dados Bibliográficos

ID6288345
AutoresAnna Isaacs (0000-0001-6578-4967, autor correspondente), Anita Isaacs
Ano2010
Volume21
Fascículo2
Páginas108-122
Data de publicação2010-04-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of democracy (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 1045-5736 • E-ISSN: 1086-3214
EditoraProject MUSE (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1353/jod.0.0156
OpenAlexW1977303192
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas10
Referências 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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