TY - BOOK AU - Camp,Roderic Ai TI - Democracy in Latin America: patterns and cycles SN - 084202512X (cloth : alk. paper) AV - JL 966 D383i 1996 U1 - 320.98/09/049 20 PY - 1996/// CY - Wilmington, Del. PB - Scholarly Resources KW - Democratization KW - Latin America KW - Democracy KW - Democracia KW - América Latina KW - Democratización KW - Politics and government KW - 1980- KW - Política y gobierno N1 - What is democratization in Latin America?, 1. -- Shannan Mattiace and Roderic Ai Camp, democracy and development : An overview, 3. -- Terry Lynn Karl, dilemmas of democratization in Latin America, 21. -- The political heritage : Culture, structures, and authoritarianism, 47. -- Glen Caudill Dealy, two cultures and political behavior in Latin America, 67. -- Peter F. Klaren, lost promise : Explaining Latin American underdevelopment, 91. -- James M. Malloy, authoritarianism and corporatism in Latin America : The model pattern, 121. -- Agents of political change? religion, militarism, electioneering, and nongovernmental organizations, 139. -- Augusto Varas, civil - military relations in a democratic framework, 141. -- Daniel H. Levine, from church and state to religion and politics and back againg, 161. -- Alan Angel, Maria D'Alva Kinzo, and Diego Urbaneja, electioneering in Latin America, 183. -- Leilah Landim, nongovernmental organizations in Latin America, 207. -- Consequences of democratization : Case studies in change, 223. -- Ben Ross Scheider, Brazil under collor : Anatomy of a crisis, 225. -- Peter H. Smith, the political impacal of free trade on México, 249. -- Karen L. Remmer, democracy and economic crisis : The Latin American experience, 269 N2 - "Collection of some of the best articles previously published by political scientists on the problems of democracy and development in Latin America highlight the nature of intellectual debate on the subject. Brief introduction by Mattiace and Camp examines the scholarly work on the conditions and variables - political culture and structure, grass-roots democratic practices, and economic crisis management - that are essential to constructing and consolidating a democratic regime. Although useful for providing a historical context on the nature of democracy and development in Latin America, the overall value of the volume is hampered by the absence of an index"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57 UR - http://www.h-net.org/review/hrev-a0a0t7-aa ER -