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The Inter‐American Democratic Charter: A Collective Mechanism to Defend and Promote Democracy
Author(s) -
Rico Víctor
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
latin american policy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.195
H-Index - 4
eISSN - 2041-7373
pISSN - 2041-7365
DOI - 10.1111/j.2041-7373.2012.00054.x
Subject(s) - democracy , charter , political science , power (physics) , mechanism (biology) , public administration , law and economics , law , sociology , politics , epistemology , philosophy , physics , quantum mechanics
The Inter‐American Democratic Charter should not only defend democracy, but also promote it. To achieve this, it is not necessary to make changes to the existing document. Rather, the definition of threats to the democratic process should be reworked, the Secretary General and the Organization of American States should have more power, and member states should present their concerns to the Permanent Council.