The poverty of democracy in Latin America

Donald Richards ()

Review of Radical Political Economics, 2001, vol. 33, issue 2, 139-163

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.

Keywords: Latin America; Democracy; Social control (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2001
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