The Friendly Liquidation of the Past: The Politics of Diversity in Latin America. By Donna Lee Van Cott. Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2000. 328p. $50.00 cloth, $24.95 paper

Daniel L. Premo

American Political Science Review, 2001, vol. 95, issue 2, 509-510

Abstract: This ambitious new book is a valuable contribution to a growing literature that assumes political democracy cannot be fully achieved in Latin America without recognizing and acting on the region's ethnic and cultural diversity. Van Cott explores the link between ethnic politics, particularly the demands of indigenous peoples, and the constitutional re- forms that have occurred in various countries in Latin America over the past decade. Relying primarily on compre- hensive analyses of constitutional reforms in Colombia (1991) and Bolivia (1994), she develops the case for what she terms a new "multicultural" model for the region.

Date: 2001
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