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Economic Crisis and Democracy in Latin America

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 September 2009

Abby Córdova  and
Mitchell A. Seligson
Abby Córdova
Affiliation:
Vanderbilt University
Mitchell A. Seligson
Affiliation:
Vanderbilt University
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Abstract

While the world is focused on the economic impact of the financial and credit meltdown, what might be its impact on politics? In well-established democracies, probably not more than elections lost by incumbent parties seen as having mismanaged the economy. But what of consolidating democracies that predominate in the developing world, where some forecasts expect the crisis to hit the poor especially hard? This article uses AmericasBarometer survey data from Latin America and the Caribbean drawn on the eve of the crisis to project how it might affect democracy in the region.

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PS: Political Science & Politics , Volume 42 , Issue 4 , October 2009 , pp. 673 - 678
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Copyright © The American Political Science Association 2009

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