The poverty of democracy in Latin America |
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Institution: | 1. Montgomery College, United States;2. Brooklyn College, United States;3. Tulane University, United States;4. Southern Illinois University Edwardsville, United States;5. University of South Florida, United States;1. Department of Psychology, Keimyung University, South Korea;2. Auckland University of Technology, New Zealand |
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Abstract: | This paper reviews recent Latin American presidential elections as a means of examining the quality of democracy in the region. Its principal hypothesis is that, notwithstanding the claims of mainstream analysis, the (re)introduction of formal democratic procedure has not represented a meaningful advance in authentic, broad-based political and economic enfranchisement of the region’s working class and peasant majorities. In many cases the so-called democratic transition has merely disguised the adaption of previously authoritarian mechanisms of social control. |
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