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Democracy in the Americas: Stopping the Pendulum

Robert A. Pastor, editor, with a foreword by Jimmy Carter and Raúl Alfonsín
Democracy in the Americas: Stopping the Pendulum
ISBN: 978-08419-182-6
$49.50
ISBN: 978-08419-118-3
$24.50
1989/262 pages
Distributed for Holmes and Meier Publishers

DESCRIPTION

Prominent scholars explore in this work the meaning of democracy and, looking at factors internal and external to the region, find clues as to why democracy has in the past failed in many Latin American countries and why it spread in the last decade of the1980s.