Democracies and Dictatorships in Latin America, Paperback/Scott Mainwaring - Cambridge University Press

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This book presents a new theory for why political regimes emerge, and why they subsequently survive or break down.
Based on extensive research into the political histories of all twenty Latin American countries, this book offers the first extended analysis of regime emergence, survival, and failure for all of Latin America over a long period of time..
They also demonstrate that transnational forces and influences are crucial to understand regional waves of democratization.
They focus on the political preferences of powerful actors - the degree to which they embrace democracy as an intrinsically desirable end and their policy radicalism - to explain regime outcomes.
Scott Mainwaring and An bal P rez-Li n argue for a theoretical approach situated between long-term structural and cultural explanations and short-term explanations that look at the decisions of specific leaders.
It then analyzes the emergence, survival, and fall of Democracies and Dictatorships in Latin America since 1900.
This book presents a new theory for why political regimes emerge, and why they subsequently survive or break down