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A review of Democracy in the Americas: Stopping the Pendulum, edited by Robert A. Pastor.
Susan Kaufman Purcell is vice-president for Latin American affairs at the Americas Society in New York.
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Volume 24, Issue 2
Latin America’s much-discussed political “left turn” has taken two very different forms. Why has the region’s commodities boom led some left-turn states to move toward “plebiscitarian superpresidentialism,” while others have…
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Volume 12, Issue 1
Malapportionment poses a serious, yet hitherto neglected, challenge to the quality and fairness of democracy in many Latin American countries.