The Third Wave of Democratization in Latin America Advances and Setbacks [Hardcover]

An ambitious and comprehensive overview of the post-1978 wave of democratization in Latin America.This volume is perhaps the most ambitious and comprehensive overview to date of the post-1978 wave of democratization in Latin America. It seeks to explain the change from a region dominated by authoritarian regimes to one in which openly authoritarian regimes are the rare exception, as well as why some countries have achieved striking advances in democratization while others have experienced setbacks. The volume presents general arguments about the trends and causes of democratization as well as analyses prepared by leading experts of nine different, theoretically compelling country cases.This volume is perhaps the most ambitious and comprehensive overview to date of the post-1978 wave of democratization in Latin America. It seeks to explain the change from a region dominated by authoritarian regimes to one in which openly authoritarian regimes are the rare exception, as well as why some countries have achieved striking advances in democratization while others have experienced setbacks. The volume presents general arguments about the trends and causes of democratization as well as analyses prepared by leading experts of nine different, theoretically compelling country cases.This volume offers an ambitious and comprehensive overview of the unprecedented advances as well as the setbacks in the post-1978 wave of democratization. It explains the sea change from a region dominated by authoritarian regimes to one in which openly authoritarian regimes are the rare exception, and analyzes why some countries have achieved striking gains in democratization while others have experienced erosions. The book presents general theoretical arguments about what causes and sustains democracy in its analysis of nine theoretically compelling country cases.Introduction: the third wave of democratization in Latin America Scott Mainwaring and Frances Hagopian; 1. Latin American democratizal“%