Product Description: Providing a comprehensive, comparative analysis of the democratic experience in Latin America, the second edition of this text reflects developments both in the region and in the literature on democracy.

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Product Description: Using the cases of Columbia, Costa Rica, and Venezuela, Peeler compares the evolution and maintenance of liberal democratic regimes in the Latin American context. These regimes are shown to be products of the normal Latin American political processes, under particular conditions that have permitted accommodation between rival political and economic elites...read more