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Polity : Demystifying Democracy in Latin America and Beyond

Author
Foweraker, Joe
Published
Boulder, CO : Lynne Rienner Publishers, 2017.
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1 online resource (240 pages)
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Contents
Polity and Latin America -- Polity as a political system -- The making of the modern polity -- State, regime, and civil society -- Polity, inequality, and the republic -- Populism and polity -- Constitutionalism and polity -- Polity, rights, and protest -- Demystifying democracy -- References -- Index.
Summary
Amidst the many lamentations about the problems of democracy, Joe Foweraker turns his attention to specific questions: Is democracy incompatible with stark social inequalities? Why are so many democratic governments deemed unaccountable and beset by populist pressures? Perhaps most fundamentally, why does democratic theory have no answers to these questions? Foweraker argues that finding answers requires a root-and-branch revision of our thinking about democracy-a revision that asks us to stop talking about ""democracy"" and start talking about ""polity."" Drawing on the political realities of.
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9781626377271
1626377278
162637693X
9781626376939
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