Product Description: Oxford, Bern, Berlin, Bruxelles, Frankfurt/M., New York, Wien. This collection of essays aims to contribute to our understanding of the process of regional integration currently underway in South America. Mercosur is a regional manifestation of a world-wide process of globalisation whose driving force is economic, but which is potentially much more than that...read more

Product Description: This book takes a powerful new approach to a question central to comparative politics and economics: Why do some leaders of fragile democracies attain political success--culminating in reelection victories--when pursuing drastic, painful economic reforms while others see their political careers implode? Kurt Weyland examines, in particular, the surprising willingness of presidents in four Latin American countries to enact daring reforms and the unexpected resultant popular support...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's 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...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: In Constructing Democratic Governance, Jorge I. Dominguez and Abraham F. Lowenthal bring together a distinguished group of scholars to assess how well democracy has been working in this volatile part of the world. The authors find that serious problems still plague these new democracies...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

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Product Description: This analysis of the relationship between the transition from authoritarian to democratic rule and the roles of the emerging women's movement in Latin America includes five regional case studies (Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Peru and Chile) about women's role in the transition process...read more