Readings in Latin American Politics Challenges to Democratization

by Kingstone, Peter

• ISBN13: 9780618371365
• ISBN10: 0618371362
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-02-03
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing

Summary

A unique combination of two major approaches, this reader is separated into two parts. Part I focuses on four central themes: democratization, economic development, social policy, and changing political actors. Each chapter in this follows a debate format, with complementary readings. Part II features six chapters focusing on particular countries or regions within Latin America, examining how the central themes discussed in Part I play out in each particular case. Articles on daily life in Latin American countries or regions provide immediacy and contextual details that more scholarly articles often lack. Each country chapter also includes one article from a more popular source native to that country, further familiarizing students with day-to-day life and contemporary culture.

Table of Contents

Preface	xi
1 Introduction	1	(10)
PART I	11	(196)
2 The Challenges of Democratization	13	(48)
2.1 What Democracy Is...and Is Not (1991)
PHILIPPE C. SCHMITTER AND TERRY LYNN KARL	22	(12)
2.2 Fragile Democracies (2002)
FORREST COLBURN	34	(8)
2.3 Democracies Without Citizenship: Injustice for All: Crime and Impunity in Latin America (1996)
PAULO SERGIO PINHEIRO	42	(9)
2.4 How People View Democracy: Between Stability and Crisis in Latin America (2001)
MARTA LAGOS	51	(8)
Suggestions for Further Reading	59	(1)
Useful Websites	59	(2)
3 Neoliberal Economic Reform	61	(50)
3.1 State versus Market: The Rise and Fall of Import Substitution (1995)
DUNCAN GREEN	68	(15)
3.2 What Washington Means by Policy Reform (1990)
JOHN WILLIAMSON	83	(6)
3.3 Good-Bye to the Washington Consensus? (2003)
JAMES E. MAHON JR.	89	(11)
3.4 Neoliberal Social Policy: Managing Poverty (Somehow) (1997)
CARLOS M. VILAS	100	(9)
Suggestions for Further Reading	109	(1)
Useful Websites	110	(1)
4 Traditional and Emerging Actors in the Latin American Polity	111	(66)
Traditional Actors
4.1 The New Military Autonomy in Latin America (1998)
CONSUELO CRUZ AND RUT DIAMINT	119	(10)
4.2 Latin American Labor (2003)
M. VICTORIA MURILLO	129	(18)
Emerging Actors
4.3 Women in Latin America: Unequal Progress Toward Equality (1999)
MALA HTUN	147	(8)
4.4 Indigenous Protest and Democracy in Latin America (1996)
DEBORAH J. YASHAR	155	(18)
Suggestions for Further Reading	173	(2)
Useful Websites	175	(2)
5 The United States and Latin America	177	(30)
5.1 The Uneasy Americas (2001)
PETER HAKIM	183	(11)
5.2 Preserving Hegemony: National Security Doctrine in the Post–Cold War Era (2001)
J. PATRICE McSHERRY	194	(10)
Suggestions for Further Reading	204	(1)
Useful Websites	205	(2)
PART II	207	(338)
6 Political Instability and Argentina's Boom and Bust and Boom Again Cycles	209	(48)
6.1 Argentina: Crisis and Democratic Consolidation (2002)
HECTOR E. SCHAMIS	216	(11)
6.2 Argentina: Anatomy of a Crisis Foretold (2003)
PAMELA K. STARR	227	(11)
6.3 The Nature of the New Argentine Democracy: The Delegative Democracy Argument Revisited (2001)
ENRIQUE PERUZZOTTI	238	(17)
Suggestions for Further Reading	255	(1)
Useful Websites	256	(1)
7 Brazil: The Democratizing Giant	257	(66)
7.1 Brazil's New Direction (2003)
WENDY HUNTER	266	(10)
7.2 Brazil: An Assessment of the Cardoso Administration (2003)
BOLIVAR LAMOUNIER	276	(21)
7.3 A New Brazil? The Changing Sociodemographic Context of Brazilian Democracy (2000)
TIMOTHY J. POWER AND J. TIMMONS ROBERTS	297	(23)
Suggestions for Further Reading	320	(1)
Useful Websites	321	(2)
8 Chile: A New Model for the Region?	323	(60)
8.1 Democratic Institutions and Civil-Military Relations: The Case of Chile (2001)
GREGORY WEEKS	331	(15)
8.2 The Limits of Democracy: Socio-Political Compromise and Regime Change in Post-Pinochet Chile (1999)
PATRICK S. BARRETT	346	(26)
8.3 Free Society, Repressed Media: The Chilean Paradox (2002)
JUDY POLUMBAUM	372	(9)
Suggestions for Further Reading	381	(1)
Useful Websites	382	(1)
9 Colombia: The Collapse of the State	383	(52)
9.1 Capital Punishment: The Fragmentation of Colombia and the Crisis of the Nation-State (2001)
JEFF BROWITT	391	(15)
9.2 Is the War Ending? Premises and Hypotheses with Which to View the Conflict in Colombia (2001)
JAVIER GUERRERO BARÓN	406	(15)
9.3 Colombia and the United States: From Counternarcotics to Counterterrorism (2003)
ARLENE B. TICKNER	421	(12)
Suggestions for Further Reading	433	(1)
Useful Websites	433	(2)
10 Cuba: A Latin American Experiment in Socialism	435	(7)
10.1 The Secrets of Castro's Staying Power (1993)
JORGE I. DOMINGUEZ	442	(7)
10.2 The Virtues and Misfortunes of Civil Society in Cuba (2002)
HAROLDO DILLA AND PHILIP OXHORN	449	(15)
10.3 Fear and Loathing of Fidel Castro: Sources of U.S. Policy Toward Cuba (2002)
LOUIS A. PEREZ JR.	464	(22)
Suggestions for Further Reading	486	(1)
Useful Websites	486	(3)
11 Mexico: The Emergence of Democracy?	489	(8)
11.1 Attitudes Toward Democracy: Mexico in Comparative Perspective (2002)
ALEJANDRO MORENO AND PATRICIA MÉNDEZ	497	(16)
11.2 Democratization in Mexico: The Zapatista Uprising and Civil Society (2001)
CHRIS GILBRETH AND GERARDO OTERO	513	(18)
11.3 Fox's Mexico: Same as It Ever Was? (2002)
PAMELA K. STARR	531	(12)
Suggestions for Further Reading	543	(1)
Useful Websites	544	(1)
Index	545