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Building Democracy . . . Which Democracy? Ideology and Models of Democracy in Post-Transition Latin America

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  30 April 2015

Gerardo L. Munck
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Abstract

Politics in Latin America continued to be about democracy after the democratic transitions in Latin America in the 1980s and 1990s. An old concern – securing the minimal standard of democracy that had served as the goal of democratic transitions – remained relevant. But a new concern – the attainment of more than a minimal democracy – transformed politics about democracy. Actors who supported and opposed neoliberalism – the key axis of ideological conflict – advocated and resisted political changes in the name of different models of democracy. And the conflict over which model of democracy would prevail shaped Latin America’s post-transition trajectories, determining how democracy developed and, in turn, whether democracy endured.

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Government and Opposition , Volume 50 , Special Issue 3: 50th Anniversary Special Issue THE FUTURE OF DEMOCRACY , July 2015 , pp. 364 - 393
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Gerardo L. Munck is Professor at the School of International Relations, University of Southern California. Contact email: munck@usc.edu.

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