Democracias y dictaduras en América Latina. Surgimiento, supervivencia y caída (Política y Derecho)

by Scott Mainwaring, Aníbal Pérez-Liñán, Ricardo Martín Rubio Ruiz (Translator)

Los regímenes políticos han sufrido diversos descalabros a la hora de instaurar una forma de gobierno democrática. Motivados por conocer aquellos factores que permitieron la consolidación y supervivencia de la democracia, Scott Mainwaring y Aníbal Pérez realizan un análisis de política comparada y, mediante una severa y minuciosa recolección de datos, buscan dar cuenta de las variables más relevantes para comprender las posiciones de los actores políticos que buscaron una democracia estable durante la segunda mitad del siglo XX. Los autores analizan el surgimiento y la caída de los regímenes políticos teniendo como casos de estudio formas de gobierno tanto democráticas como autoritarias.

Genres: Politics, Political Science, History

Kindle Edition

First published August 31, 2013

About the author

Scott Mainwaring is the Eugene P. and Helen Conley Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame. He is also a faculty fellow at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies, where he previously served as director for 13 years and is a current Advisory Board member.

In the fall of 2019, Mainwaring returned to Notre Dame from Harvard University, where he served as the Jorge Paulo Lemann Professor of Brazil Studies at the Kennedy School and was faculty co-chair of the Brazil Studies Program from 2016 to 2019.

His research interests include political parties and party systems, democratic and authoritarian regimes, democratization, and political institutions in Latin America.

Reviews

[Brian · Rating 4 out of 5]

A noble and much needed attempt to quantify how factors such as leader’s normative preferences, radicalism and international variables effect democracy. I’m not sure I could cite their results confidently due to measurement issues (especially a suspect U.S. support for democracy in Latin America measure), but I really appreciate this work’s efforts to quantitatively assess factors that intuitively are linked with democratization, but neglected due to issues in measuring them (normative preferences being the best example of this). Further, the authors do a good job of critiquing popular structural democratization theories.

[Jonathan Madison · Rating 5 out of 5]

An excellent book that offers an alternative and superior method for understanding democratization within and without Latin America.

[Sofi Lupiañez]

Leí una parte para Fundamentos de Ciencia Política 2