The Challenges of Creating Democracies in the Americas - The United States, Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela, Costa Rica, and Guatemala

This book's leading goal is to explain why some states in the Americas have been markedly more effective than others at forming stable democratic regimes. The six states analyzed are the United States, Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela, Costa Rica, and Guatemala. The study identifies the critical challenges each state encountered at different stages of its state-creation and regime- formation processes, from the colonial period to the present. In its concluding chapter, the study presents a series of time-related hypotheses designed to capture the different evolutionary processes and explain variances in success.

List of contents

1. Chapter One: Introduction-The Nature of the Problem.- 2. Chapter Two: Theories of State Creation and Democratization.- 3. Chapter Three: The Challenges of State-Creation and Democratization in the United States.- 4. Chapter Four: The Challenges of State Creation and Democratization in Mexico.- 5. Chapter Five: The Challenges of State Creation and Democratization in Colombia and Venezuela.- 6. Chapter Six: State Creation and Democratization in Costa Rica and Guatemala.- 7. Chapter Seven: An Exploratory Theory of State Creation and Democratization: The United State, Mexico, Venezuela, Colombia Costa Rica and Guatemala.

About the author

Alex Roberto Hybel is the Susan Eckert Lynch Emeritus Professor of Government and International Relations at Connecticut College, USA.

Product details

• Authors: Alex Roberto Hybel
• Publisher: Springer, Berlin
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.08.2019
• EAN: 9783030212322
• ISBN: 978-3-0-3021232-2
• No. of pages: 272
• Dimensions: 160 mm x 214 mm x 55 mm
• Weight: 492 g
• Illustrations: X, 272 p.
• Subjects: Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Comparative and international political science; Guatemala, Amerika, B, Politics, Politik und Staat, Democracy, Political Science, Politics & government, Political structures: democracy, Political Science and International Studies, Comparative Politics, Latin America—Politics and government, South & Central America (including Mexico), Latin America, Latin American Politics, American Politics, Politikwissenschaft und politische Theorie, Americas