What becomes clear throughout is that there is a paradox at the heart of Latin America's democracies. Despite decades of struggle to replace authoritarian dicta

"Devoting particular emphasis to Bolivia, Chile, and Mexico, proposes a theory of civil society to explain the economic and political challenges for continuing

Latin American states took dramatic steps toward greater inclusion during the late twentieth and early twenty-first Centuries. Bringing together an accomplished

Latin American women’s movements played important roles in the democratic transitions in South America during the 1980s and in Central America during the 1990

Political scientists have worried about declining levels of citizens' support for their regimes (legitimacy), but have failed to empirically link this decline t