Taking the Long View on Latin American Democracy
Taking the Long View on Latin American Democracy
LASA's 50th anniversary conference offered an opportunity to reflect on the quality of democracy in the region.
When the Latin American Studies Association (LASA) was founded in 1966, there was a clear need for dialogue and debate over the direction the region was headed. Military dictatorships were in power across the Americas, from Honduras to Argentina. Democracy, far from the rule, was the exception.
Just fifty years after a future of alternative political and economic models in the region seemed like a real possibility, democracy prevails. Long-standing authoritarian-minded parties such as Mexico’s Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) have loosened their grip on political power as the...
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