Political Attitudes During Economic Crisis
The impacts of economic downturns and shocks on public attitudes toward democracy in Latin America is examined by Cordova and Seligson in their article “Economic Shocks and Democratic Vulnerabilities in Latin America and the Caribbean”. Cordova and Seligson specifically look…
Left Turn
In my previous blog post on democratic transitions post Cold War I mentioned how the leftist populists movements of Salvador Allende from the Cold War era and of Hugo Chavez from the post Cold War era were strikingly different. The…
Democratic Stagnation Post Cold War
The period of democratization in Latin America between 1992 and 2003 post Cold War was a very unique time of transition. Unlike the Cold War era, this period was not marked by multitudes of military coups that lead to authoritarian…