Author Description

Peeler (political science, Bucknell U.) examines the challenges and opportunities for creating a humane and democratic political order in a region where, by his own admission, such a task has often seemed impossible. He explores basic issues of democratic theory, democracy's roots in Latin American tradition, managing participation in early democracies, authoritarian regimes of the 1970s, the institutionalization of democracy, and transitions that occurred in several countries in the 1980s. Annotation c. by Book News, Inc., Portland, Or.