Democracy and the Public Space in Latin America / / Leonardo Avritzer.
This is a bold new study of the recent emergence of democracy in Latin America. Leonardo Avritzer shows that traditional theories of democratization fall short in explaining this phenomenon. Scholars have long held that the postwar stability of Western Europe reveals that restricted democracy, or &q...
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Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013 |
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Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2009] ©2002 |
Year of Publication: | 2009 |
Edition: | Course Book |
Language: | English |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (208 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
- INTRODUCTION
- ONE. Democratic Theory and Democratization
- TWO. Democratic Theory and the Formation of a Public Sphere
- THREE. Democracy and the Latin American Tradition
- FOUR. The Transformation of the Latin American Pubic Space
- FIVE. Democratization in Latin America The Conflict between Public Practices and the Logic of Political Society
- SIX. Participatory Publics in Brazil and Mexico The Compatibility of Public Deliberation and Complex Administration
- SEVEN. Concluding Remarks on the Democratizing Role of Participatory Publics
- NOTES
- REFERENCES
- INDEX