dc.creatorBOOTH, JOHN A.;;
dc.creatorHERAS GOMEZ, LAURA LETICIA; 92503
dc.creatorBOOTH, JOHN A.
dc.creatorHERAS GOMEZ, LAURA LETICIA
dc.date2016-03-16T17:14:59Z
dc.date2016-03-16T17:14:59Z
dc.date2015
dc.identifierhttp://www.redalyc.org/articulo.oa?id=10532623003
dc.identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11799/38424
dc.descriptionThe purpose of this essay is to examine the status of democracy in Latin American countries as well as the prospects upcoming for the region in the present decade. We will provide a map of the subject that includes a basic definition of democracy, an overview of theories about how democracies arise and may be maintained, as a continuum, and a review of what we know empirically about Latin American democratization. We suggest a model in which political culture and social structure influence each other, and that both directly influence political processes, which in turn mediates between these causal factors and the actual emergence of democratic rules of the political game in every particular country. The approach is completed with a series of lapop Data that shows up how far and in what direction democracy is taking place in Latin
dc.formatapplication/pdf
dc.languageeng
dc.publisherUniversidad Autónoma del Estado de México
dc.relationhttp://www.redalyc.org/revista.oa?id=105
dc.rightsopenAccess
dc.rightshttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0
dc.sourceConvergencia. Revista de Ciencias Sociales (México) Num.67 Vol.22
dc.subjectSociología
dc.subjectdemocracy
dc.subjectpolitical culture
dc.subjectsocial structure
dc.subjectLatin America
dc.subjectCIENCIAS SOCIALES
dc.titleDemocracy in Latin America: status and prospects
dc.typeArtículos de revistas


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