Latin American Politics And Development, Fifth Edition

HOWARD J.WIARDA is the Dean Rusk Professor of International Relations and Founding Head of the Department of International Affairs at the University of Georgia, USA.

• Preface to the Fifth Edition -- The Latin American Tradition and Process of Development -- The Context of Latin American Politics -- The Pattern of Historical Development -- Interest Groups and Political Parties -- Government Machinery, The Role of the State, and Public Policy -- The Struggle for Democracy in Latin America -- The Political Systems of South America -- Argentina: Intransigent's Paradise -- Brazil: The Politics of "A New Order and Progress" -- Chile -- Colombia: Drugs, Guerrillas, Death Squads, and U.S. Aid -- Peru: Democratic Forms, Authoritarian Practices -- Venezuela: Shaping the "New Democracy" -- Balancing Growth and Democracy in Uruguay -- Paraguay: Precarious Democracy -- Bolivia: The Construction of a Multiethnic Democracy -- Ecuador: The Fragility of Dependent Democracy -- The Political Systems of Central and Middle America and the Caribbean -- Mexico: From Corporatism to Pluralism? -- Development, Revolution, and Decay in Cuba -- Costa Rica -- Nicaragua: The Politics of Frustration -- El Salvador -- Guatemala: Democratic Rebirth? -- Honduras: The Limits of Democracy1 -- The Dominican Republic: A New Way -- Panama: Beyond Elitist Democracy and Authoritarian Populism in the New Millennium? -- Haiti: The Failure of Governance -- Conclusion: Latin America and the Future -- A Living Laboratory