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The poverty of democracy in Latin America

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  • Donald G. Richards

    (Department of Economics, Indiana State University, Terre Haute, IN 47809, USA; Tel.: + 1-812-237-2179; fax: + 1-812-237-4349. ecdrich@scifac.indstate.edu)

Abstract

This paper reviews recent Latin American presidential elections as a means of examining the quality of democracy in the region. Its principal hypothesis is that, notwithstanding the claims of mainstream analysis, the (re)introduction of formal democratic procedure has not represented a meaningful advance in authentic, broad-based political and economic enfranchisement of the region's working class and peasant majorities. In many cases the so-called democratic transition has merely disguised the adaption of previously authoritarian mechanisms of social control.

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  • Donald G. Richards, 2001. "The poverty of democracy in Latin America," Review of Radical Political Economics, Union for Radical Political Economics, vol. 33(2), pages 139-163, June.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:reorpe:v:33:y:2001:i:2:p:139-163
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