This week’s reading was mostly focused on the relevance of political parties in democracies with a special historical emphasis on Peru around the Fujimori regime. Letvitsky and Cameron address the importance that the political party has in keeping a democracy…
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…
This weeks reading was over the importance of political parties for democracy. Levitsky and Cameron make several good points of why parties are important in Latin America and I personally agree with most of it. A few are that parties…
Political parties enable the government to work with more ease and cater to the issues of a wider range of the public. Parties also socialize elected officials to be accountable to their constituents, which is an essential pillar of democracy….
In Levitsky and Cameron’s article, they argue that political parties are essential for the success of democracy, and use the modern example of Peru’s decomposition of the party system which allowed the rise of an authoritarian regime. They seek to explain…
Michael Sowa POLITSC 4140 Bog Post -2 09/25/16 Democracy has become a worldwide political system in which majority of the inhabitants of contemporary world want their state’s political authorities to adopt. Democracy is therefore seen as a solution to modern…
The readings this week were very interesting in talking about the paths of democracy. Especially in Woods reading talking about the “insurgent path of democracy”. Economic elites in Latin America were at first reluctant to democratization. They were able to…
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…
This week’s readings were centered on the relatively recent wave of democratization in Latin America that has occurred since the 1990s. Manwairing explained how this wave of democratization was extremely unique and went against many theoretical models of how democratization…
When Americans turned on their televisions on the 9th of November, 1989 and watched the collapse of the Berlin Wall many correctly saw that a new era in world politics was about to begin. The world watched as Germans ripped…