Democracy in Latin America – Between Hope and Despair Walker Mainwaring

Democracy in Latin AmericaBetween Hope and Despair\nAuthor(s): Ignacio Walker, Scott Mainwaring\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: University of Notre Dame Press, United States\nImprint: University of Notre Dame Press\nISBN-13: 9780268019723, 978-0268019723\nSynopsis\nIn 2009, Ignacio Walkerscholar, politician, and one of Latin America's leading public intellectualspublished La Democracia en Amrica Latina. Now available in English, with a new prologue, and significantly revised and updated for an English-speaking audience, Democracy in Latin America: Between Hope and Despair contributes to the necessary and urgent task of exploring both the possibilities and difficulties of establishing a stable democracy in Latin America.\n\n Walker 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 .