Citizenship in Latin America / / ed. by Meg Ruthenberg, Joseph S. Tulchin.

Is democracy in Latin America in trouble, as many now argue? Or is the increasingly overt political participation of both "average" and marginalized citizens evidence to the contrary? This important collection focuses on citizenship to shed light on the dynamics and obstacles that the regi...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Lynne Rienner Press Complete eBook-Package 2013-2000
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Place / Publishing House:Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Woodrow Wilson Center Current Studies on Latin America
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Physical Description:1 online resource (329 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Tables
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1 Toward an Analysis of Citizenship in Latin America
  • 2 Latin American Citizenship and Democratic Theory
  • Part 1 Conceptions of Citizenship
  • 3 Citizenship Regimes, the State, and Ethnic Cleavages
  • 4 Citizenship in Disjunctive Democracies
  • 5 Fields of Citizenship
  • 6 Democracy and Citizenship in Latin America
  • Part 2 Challenges for Citizenship
  • 7 Neopluralism and Citizenship in Latin America
  • 8 Democracy Across Cultures: Does Gender Make a Difference?
  • 9 Crime and Violence: Challenges to Democracy in Brazil
  • 10 Democracy Assistance in Creating Citizenship
  • Part 3 Promoting Active Citizenship
  • 11 Between Paradoxes and Challenges: Promoting Citizenship in Bolivia
  • 12 Participation and Democracy: The Case of Argentina
  • 13 Representation and Active Citizenship in Ecuador
  • Part 4 Conclusion
  • 14 Citizenship as Public Work
  • 15 Citizens: Made, Not Born
  • Bibliography
  • The Contributors
  • Index
  • About the Book