Elites and Democratic consolidation in Latin America and Southern Europe

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Elites and Democratic consolidation in Latin America and Southern Europe

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edited by John Higley and Richard Gunther

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Elites & Democratic Consolidation in Latin America & Southern Europe

Contributor

• Gunther, Richard
• Higley, John

Editor

• Gunther, Richard
• Higley, John

Subject

• Democracy
• Elite (Social sciences) -- Political activity -- Europe, Southern
• Elite (Social sciences) -- Political activity -- Latin America
• Europe, Southern -- Politics and government
• Latin America -- Politics and government

Language

eng

Summary

A distinguished group of scholars examine recent transitions to democracy and the prospects for democratic stability in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, the Dominican Republic, Peru, Portugal, Spain and Uruguay. They also assess the role of elites in the longer-established democratic regimes in Columbia, Costa Rica, Italy, Mexico and Venezuela. The authors conclude that in independent states with long records of political instability and authoritarian rule, democratic consolidation requires the achievement of elite 'consensual unity' - that is, agreement among all politically important elites on the worth of existing democratic institutions and respect for democratic rules-of-the-game, coupled with increased 'structural integration' among those elites. Two processes by which consensual unity can be established are explored - elite settlement, the negotiating of compromises on basic disagreements, and elite convergence, a more subtle series of tactical decisions by rival elites which have cumulative effect, over perhaps a generation.--

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non fiction

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Cambridge Social Sciences eBooks