Between Tyranny and Anarchy provides a unique comprehensive history and interpretation of efforts to establish democracies over two centuries in the major Latin American countries. Drake takes an unusual interdisciplinary approach, combining history and political science with an emphasis on political institutions. He argues that, without a thorough examination of the historical roots and causes of Latin American democracy, most general theories can not adequately explain its failures, successes, and forms.Latin America offers an extraordinary laboratory for the study of democratic experiments. Alongside a well-deserved reputation for authoritarianism, it boasts one of the world's deepest, richest histories of democratic movements, ideas, and institutions. Contrary to conventional wisdom, the region's leading democracies did not lag very far behind the United States and Western Europe in making numerous advances. In comparison with those countries, though, Latin America's democratic history has been distinctive because of its fundamental dilemma: how to reconcile political systems theoretically committed to legal equality with societies divided by extreme socio-economic inequalities.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Stanford University Press
ISBN-13
9780804760027
eBay Product ID (ePID)
96490384
Product Key Features
Subject Area
Political Sociology
Author
Paul w. Drake
Publication Name
Between Tyranny and Anarchy: a History of Democracy in Latin America, 1800-2006
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Publication Year
2009
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
344 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
229mm
Item Width
152mm
Item Weight
431g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Paul w. Drake
Series Title
Social Science History
Country/Region of Manufacture
United States
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