Democracies and Dictatorships in Latin America

Emergence, Survival, and Fall

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ID23398160
AuthorsScott Mainwaring (0000-0003-2729-8049, University of Notre Dame), Aníbal Pérez-Liñán (0000-0003-4109-2725, University of Pittsburgh)
Year2014
Pages370
Publication date2014-01-31
Open AccessYes
TypeBOOK
VenueDemocracies and Dictatorships in Latin America (SOURCE_BOOK)
PublisherCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/cbo9781139047845
OpenAlexW1590249282
Open LibraryOL34510413M
ISBN9781139047845
LanguageEN
Citations received172

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 look at the decisions of specific leaders. They focus on the political preferences of powerful actors - the degree to which they embrace democracy as an intrinsically desirable end and their policy radicalism - to explain regime outcomes. They also demonstrate that transnational forces and influences are crucial to understand regional waves of democratization. Based on extensive research into the political histories of all twenty Latin American countries, this book offers the first extended analysis of regime emergence, survival and failure for all of Latin America over a long period of time.

Democracy · Democratization · Development economics · Dictatorship · Economics · Latin Americans · Period (music) · Political economy · Political science · Politics · Situated · Sociology · International Relations in Latin America · Law · Political and Social Dynamics in Chile and Latin America · Politics and Society in Latin America · Authoritarianism · Latin America · Political Culture · politics and government

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