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Deepening Democracy? - The Modern Left and Social Movements in Chile and Peru (Paperback)
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Deepening Democracy? - The Modern Left and Social Movements in Chile and Peru (Paperback)
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As a wave of transitions from authoritarian rule swept across Latin
America in the 1980's, the idea of "deepening democracy" emerged as
a guiding principle of the political Left and social movements in
much of the region. With its emphasis on grass-roots participation
and popular empowerment, this idea gained force among social and
political actors who sought to reconcile the Left's traditional
commitment to radical change with its newfound respect for
representative democracy. The vision of progressive democratic
reform helped revive leftist parties whose revolutionary dreams had
been crushed by military repression and whose traditional political
and economic models had lost appeal with the world-wide crisis of
communism.
Through a comparative analysis of two very different cases, this
book shows why the deepening of democracy proved so difficult to
achieve in practice. Although the Chilean Left helped defeat a
military dictator and form a new democratic regime in 1990, it
faced great odds in promoting reforms because of the structural and
institutional constraints bequeathed by the dictatorship. In Peru,
a powerful leftist coalition with close links to social movements
failed to build upon its success in municipal elections, and was
ultimately undermined by political and economic crises that tore
apart the Left's social networks.
"Deepening Democracy?" suggests that the new project of the Left is
heavily contingent on the organization of collective actors in
civil society, a process that has been disrupted by the effects of
economic crises, market liberalization, and electoral competition.
The book sheds new theoretical light on the structural and
institutional forces that have not only hampered the political
success of the Left, but also limited the scope and quality of
democratic practices in contemporary Latin America. Thus, it shifts
scholarly attention from the conditions for democratic transition
and consolidation in Latin America to the character and
consequences of democratic rule.
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