Week 7: Democratic Consolidation
This week’s reading was interesting because it focused on the Peruvian aspect of democratic consolidation. Throughout the 1990s, all Latin American countries were democratic, and Peru was the only one of these countries to experience a regime breakdown. Levitsky and Cameron…
Week 6: Transitions to Democracy in the Post-Cold War Era
This week’s readings focused on transitions to democracy in Latin America in the post-Cold War Era. The authors of each piece analyze these transitions to democracy during this specific time period through interesting perspectives. Mainwaring and Perez-Linan argue that while many…
Week 5: Transitions to Democracy-From Authoritarianism
The transitions to democracy from authoritarianism marked an interesting time period for Latin America. This week’s readings do quite an effective job in analyzing different aspects of these transitions. O’Donnell and Schmitter make very interesting arguments in their piece on…