{"product_id":"democracy-in-latin-america-ignacio-walker-9780268019723","title":"Democracy in Latin America: Between Hope and Despair","description":"\u003cp\u003eIn 2009, Ignacio Walker--scholar, politician, and one of Latin America's leading public intellectuals--published \u003ci\u003eLa Democracia en Am駻ica Latina\u003c\/i\u003e. Now available in English, with a new prologue, and significantly revised and updated for an English-speaking audience, \u003ci\u003eDemocracy in Latin America: Between Hope and Despair\u003c\/i\u003e contributes to the necessary and urgent task of exploring both the possibilities and difficulties of establishing a stable democracy in Latin America.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWalker argues that, throughout the past century, Latin American history has been marked by the search for responses or alternatives to the crisis of oligarchic rule and the struggle to replace the oligarchic order with a democratic one. After reviewing some of the principal theories of democracy based on an analysis of the interactions of political, economic, and social factors, Walker maintains that it is primarily the actors, institutions, and public policies--not structural determinants--that create progress or regression in Latin American democracy.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ignacio Walker\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 026801972X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780268019723\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Notre Dame Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/30\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 280\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e IndieFab awards - Honorable Mention\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 02\/01\/2014","brand":"Ignacio Walker","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":43913525887231,"sku":"9780268019723","price":38.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/products\/img_68893571-be21-4979-9a93-babc233942e3.jpg?v=1680620851","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/democracy-in-latin-america-ignacio-walker-9780268019723","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}