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1 online resource (240 pages) |
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| Summary |
Amidst the many lamentations about the problems of democracy, Joe Foweraker turns his attention to specific questions: Is democracy incompatible with stark social inequalities? Why are so many democratic governments deemed unaccountable and beset by populist pressures? Perhaps most fundamentally, why does democratic theory have no answers to these questions? Foweraker argues that finding answers requires a root-and-branch revision of our thinking about democracy-a revision that asks us to stop talking about ""democracy"" and start talking about ""polity."" Drawing on the political realities of. |
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Polity and Latin America -- Polity as a political system -- The making of the modern polity -- State, regime, and civil society -- Polity, inequality, and the republic -- Populism and polity -- Constitutionalism and polity -- Polity, rights, and protest -- Demystifying democracy -- References -- Index. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Democracy -- Latin America.
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Democracy. |
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Latin America. |
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- General. |
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Electronic books.
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Print version: Foweraker, Joe. Polity : Demystifying Democracy in Latin America and Beyond. Boulder, CO : Lynne Rienner Publishers, ©2017 9781626376939 |
| ISBN |
9781626377271 |
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1626377278 |
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162637693X |
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9781626376939 |
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