Amazon.com description: Product Description: Contributors look at how political actors change attitudes and behavior and internalize norms associated with liberal democracy. They concentrate on crises of democracy, both lessons learned from earlier breakdowns and from new tensions or crises, in addition to the ongoing processes of democratization in less crisis-prone situations, in Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, and Venezuela. The editor teaches political science at Georgia State University and is director of the Carter Center's latin American and Caribbean Program.