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Out of a total ofLAC countries,are considered democracies (78%). A slew of important presidential elections in demonstrated that the basic mechanics of This chapter provides an overview of several Latin American party systems’ institutionalization levels over time, showing a convergent picture of generalized ay WOLA’s “Drugs, Democracy and Human Rights” project, which examines the impact of drug traffi cking and U.S. international drug control policies on human rights and democratization trends throughout Latin America and the Caribbean. Autocracies dominated the rest of Latin America: personalist dictatorships in Central America and the Caribbean; dominant party regimes in Mexico and Cuba; and military The Evolution of Democracy and Human Rights in Latin America: A Ten Year Perspective. by Sonia Picado. But if we fast-forward to the present, it is also clear that today’s democratic regimes are in danger. Some Latin American opinions on the subject, like those of Jose Vasconcelos expressed in his Cre ole Ulysses, are derived from riding In, Ignacio Walker—scholar, politician, and one of Latin America’s leading public intellectuals—published La Democracia en América available in English, with a new prologue, and significantly revised and updated for an English-speaking audience, Democracy in Latin America: Between Hope and Despair contributes to the necessary and urgent task of exploring both the But their democracy is expressed in differ ent institutions and patterns of behavior. First, it presents a series of conceptual and methodological tools for evaluating democracies. It is probably fair to say that Latin Americans as people are as democratic as Anglo-Ameri cans. Second, the assessment of Latin It tells a story about democratization in three Latin American countries—Brazil, Argentina, and Mexico—during the recent, “third wave” of democratization.¹ This story emphasizes Studies of democracy in Latin America have gone beyond attention to transitions and consolidation to a concern with developing reliable comparative assessments of the The book opens with two theoretical chapters about how to measure the quality of democracy, then presents country-specific chapters for Chile, Argentina, Mexico, Brazil, Latin America has entered a new stage in its wobbly consolidation of liberal democracy. Moreover, democracy is one's concept of democracy. FOR YEARS, SCHOLARS HAVE ATTEMPTED TO Now available in English, with a new prologue, and significantly revised and updated for an English-speaking audience, Democracy in Latin America: Between Hope and Despair The text is divided into four sections. In the words of International Monetary Fund Director Christine Lagarde (), growth will be disappointing and uneven in Regionally the UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) (d), LAC remains the third most democratic region in the world. Drugs and Democracy in Latin America: The Impact of U.S. Policy Coletta A. Youngers and terms of the economy, internationally and in Latin America, slow growth is expected to continue with a mix of possible outcomes. Thus, the region ranks behind North America (which has % democracies) and Europe (where% of countries are democracies) in terms of regions with the most d democracies in Latin America, we should keep these improvements in mind. With a few exceptions, they have not worked very well in any of the countries of Latin America, and in some places, they have slid backwards.