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Counterpoints - Selected Essays on Authoritarianism and Democratization (Hardcover, New ed.)
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Counterpoints - Selected Essays on Authoritarianism and Democratization (Hardcover, New ed.)
Series: Kellogg Institute Series on Democracy and Development
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The central, driving theme of this volume is democracy, its
vicissitudes and its possibilities in Latin America. Guillermo
O'Donnell considers the pattern of political and social alliances
that have shaped Argentina's agitated history, and focuses on the
tensions and intrinsic weaknesses of bureaucratic-authoritarianism,
especially in its most repressive guises, at a time when it
projected itself as an enduring, efficient, and potentially
legitimate form of political authority. He includes detailed
empirical analysis of daily life under extremely repressive regimes
and argues throughout that the struggle for democracy is the most
appropriate way, both morally and strategically, to take advantage
of the fissures and tensions that close examination discovers
behind the bureaucratic-authoritarianism facade.Counterpoints is a
successful mix of personal experience and meticulous scholarship-a
trajectory of O'Donnell's work that starts with the critique of
authoritarianism and ends with a close examination of presently
existing democracies in Latin America. His discussion of the flaws
of the new democracies originating from defective institutionalism
and extreme social inequalities is especially valuable for scholars
of democracy and democratization, comparative politics, and Latin
American politics.
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