Failed democracies in Latin America and the Caribbean : democratic purgatory and the viability of consolidated democratic regimes / Christopher M. Brown.
Brown, Christopher M.
2023
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Failed democracies in Latin America and the Caribbean : democratic purgatory and the viability of consolidated democratic regimes / Christopher M. Brown.
Author
Brown, Christopher M.
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9783031384813 (electronic bk.)
3031384814 (electronic bk.)
3031384806
9783031384806
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-38481-3
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Cham : Palgrave Macmillan, 2023.
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English
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10.1007/978-3-031-38481-3 doi
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F2321
Dewey Decimal Classification
321.8
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This book addresses the breakdown of failed democratic systems in Latin America and the Caribbean. The scope of this investigation is a study of political systems of Venezuela, Colombia, and Nicaragua. The implications of the present research on democratic purgatory have real-world applications not only for the above countries but also for those political systems that are currently transitioning and/or consolidating their democracies as well. Christopher M. Brown is an Assistant Professor with the Department of Political Science and International Studies, Georgia Southern University, USA. His primary research agenda addresses normative issues of democratization and democracy theory. He is the author of Constructing International Studies and Introduction to International Studies.
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FAILED DEMOCRACIES IN LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN.
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Intro
Preface
Acknowledgments
About This Book
Contents
About the Author
List of Tables
1 Introduction to Democratic Purgatory
Setting the Stage
The Inviolability of Consolidation
Democratic Failures During Transition
Democratic Breakdowns in the Literature
Outlining a Heuristic
Why Venezuela?
Legitimacy and Effectiveness
Building Theory
The Plan of the Book
Notes
Bibliography
2 Democracy's End: A Tale of Two Referenda
Dreams, Deferred
Punto Fijo's Last Stand
A Tale of Two Democracies
The Only Game in Town

Same Game, New Rules
Democratic Breakdown Through Democratic Means
Notes
Bibliography
3 Operationalizing Democratization
Points of Departure
Operationalizing Democracy
Architects of the New World Order
The Experience of Modernization
Breaking It Down: Transitologists and Stages of Transition
The Transitions Project
Democratization and Consolidation
Tracing the Ideal
Notes
Bibliography
4 The Blueprint for Democratization
Influence of Prior Regime Type
Authoritarian Regimes
Regime Solidarity
Regime Disunity
On Liberalization

The Ruling Elites
"Modes of Transition" from Authoritarian Rule
How Political Systems Transition (in the Abstract)
Foundational Pacts
Democratic Consolidation
Becoming Consolidated
Democratic Failures
Break Down from Democratic External Pressures
Democratic Breakdown by Internal Pressures
Reconciling Democratic Breakdowns
Notes
Bibliography
5 From Exemplar to Pariah: The Heuristic Case of Venezuela's Breakdown
From Exemplar to Pariah
Illustrative Case Study of Venezuela
Pre-Democratic History in Brief: Nation-State Building

Liberalization to Democratization (1935-1958)
Failed Democratic Experiment and Democratic Learning
Pacted Transition: The Pacts of Punto Fijo
Foundational Pact of Venezuelan Democracy
Accommodation and Exclusion
Democratization (1959-1973)
Rules of the Game
Democratic Elections and Power Transfers
Consolidation
Democracy in the Consolidation Phase (1974-1987)
Deepening Democracy
Democratic Breakdown (1987-1998)
Chavismo (1998-2000s)
Notes
Bibliography
6 Institutionalizing Instability: Prologue to a Farce or Tragedy
Venezuela as a Failed Democracy

Venezuela as Another Latin American "Democracy"
Five Patterns of Democratic Breakdown
Why Venezuelan Democracy Failed
Structural/Economic Factors
Political/Institutional Factors
Political Cultural/Political Learning Factors
Democratic Failure Through Democratic Means
Democratic Purgatory
Democratic Breakdown in Venezuela
Wither Representation?
Notes
Bibliography
7 The Long Shadow of Colombia's National Front Era
Chapter Overview
Introduction to Colombian Political Development
Independence
War of the Supremos
Nueva Granada to La Rebelión

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