Polity : : Demystifying Democracy in Latin America and Beyond / / Joe Foweraker.
Amidst the many lamentations about the problems of democracy, Joe Foweraker turns his attention to specific questions: Is democracy incompatible with stark social inequalities? Why are so many democratic governments deemed unaccountable and beset by populist pressures? Perhaps most fundamentally, wh...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Boulder : : Lynne Rienner Publishers, , [2022] ©2018 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Language: | English |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Polity and Latin America
- 2 Polity as a Political System
- 3 The Making of the Modern Polity
- 4 State, Regime, and Civil Society
- 5 Polity, Inequality, and the Republic
- 6 Populism and Polity
- 7 Constitutionalism and Polity
- 8 Polity, Rights, and Protest
- 9 Demystifying Democracy
- References
- Index
- About the Book