Amidst the many lamentations about the problems of democracy, Joe
Foweraker turns his attention to specific questions: Is democracy
incompatible with stark social inequalities? Why are so many
democratic governments deemed unaccountable and beset by populist
pressures? Perhaps most fundamentally, why does democratic theory
have no answers to these questions? Foweraker argues that finding
answers requires a root-and-branch revision of our thinking about
democracy—a revision that asks us to stop talking about
“democracy” and start talking about “polity.” Drawing on
the political realities of Latin America, he describes polity as a
system encompassing the distinct but conjoined domains of oligarchy
and democracy; and he offers a conceptual framework that identifies
the key components and logic of polity. His innovative analysis
affords a better understanding not only of democracy in Latin
America, but also of democratic regimes around the world.
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