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Collective Action or Public Participation? Complementary or Contradictory Democratisation Strategies in Latin America?
Author(s) -
Pearce Jenny
Publication year - 2004
Publication title -
bulletin of latin american research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.24
H-Index - 33
eISSN - 1470-9856
pISSN - 0261-3050
DOI - 10.1111/j.0261-3050.2004.00120.x
Subject(s) - democratization , latin americans , collective action , political science , citation , library science , action (physics) , sociology , media studies , law , computer science , democracy , politics , physics , quantum mechanics
The optimism surrounding the democratic transition in Latin America has given way to a measured but notable pessimism two decades or more later. The multilateral policy community have ‘come out’ in terms of the limits of democratic practice in the region. In 2002, the Inter-American Development Bank published a review of political reform and democratisation and talked of ‘democracies under stress’: