Democracy and the Public Space in Latin America

by Leonardo Avritzer

• ISBN13: 9781400814152
• ISBN10: 1400814154
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2009-01-10
• Publisher: Princeton University Press

Summary

"This book makes significant contributions to the field, addressing key issues in comparative politics from a variety of perspectives and with a rich series of empirical referents. One of the first studies to develop a normative theory of democracy and democratization from a specifically Latin American perspective, it is at the cutting edge of a growing body of literature that is again examining the role of political culture in the region's politics."--Philip Oxhorn, McGill University ""Democracy and the Public Space in Latin America" is an essay in comparative political sociology written in the grand style. An ambitious and intelligent book that could make a significant impact on the literature, it offers a sustained critique of democratic elitism and the distortions that this theoretical perspective has introduced into our understanding of democratization."--Laurence Whitehead, Oxford University

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	p. v
Introduction	p. 3
Democratic Theory and Democratization	p. 11
Democratic Theory and the Formation of a Public Sphere	p. 36
Democracy and the Latin American Tadition	p. 55
The Transformation of the Latin American Public Space	p. 77
Democratization in Latin America
The Conflict between Public Practices and the Logic of Political Society	p. 103
Participatory Publics in Brazil and Mexico
The Compatibility of Public Deliberation and Complex Administration	p. 135
Concluding Remarks on the Democratizing Role of Participatory Publics	p. 165
Notes	p. 171
References	p. 185
Index	p. 199
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