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Counterpoints - Selected Essays on Authoritarianism and Democratization

English · Hardback

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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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Guillermo O'Donnell is a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences and the Helen Kellogg Professor of Government and International Studies at the University of Notre Dame.


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Authors Guillermo O'Donnell, Guillermo O''donnell
Publisher University Of Notre Dame Press
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 01.03.1999
 
EAN 9780268008376
ISBN 978-0-268-00837-6
No. of pages 277
Series Kellogg Institute Series on Democracy and Development
Subject Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education

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