Making of Flawed Democracies in the Americas

Alex Roberto Hybel is the Susan Eckert Lynch Emeritus Professor of Government and International Relations at Connecticut College, USA.

• 1. Introduction: State Creation and Democratization in Four American States: The Nature of the Problem.- 2. Theories of State Creation and Democratization.- 3. The Processes of State Creation and Democratization in the United States.- 4. The Processes of State Creation and Democratization in Chile, Peru, and Argentina.- 5. Exploratory Hypotheses: Chile, Peru, and Argentina.- 6. An Exploratory Theory of State Creation and Democratization in the United States, Chile, Peru, and Argentina.