Right and Democracy in Latin America

DOUGLAS A. CHALMERS is Professor of Political Science at Columbia University and Director of the University's Institute of Latin American and Iberian Studies. He was Fellow at the Woodrow Wilson International Center, and has been visiting professor at the Colegio Nacional de Mexico. He is the author of several articles and book chapters on Latin America.MARIO DO CARMO CAMPELLO DE SOUZA is Professor of Political Science at the University of Sao Paulo in Brazil. She is Senior Research Fellow at the Institute of Latin American and Iberian Studies at Columbia University, and at IDESP (Instituto de Estudos Economicos, Socias e Politicos de Sao Paulo) and a former Edward Larocque Tinker Visiting Professor at Columbia University. She is the author of various articles on political parties in Brazil.ATILIO BORON is an Argentine political sociologist and director of EURAL (Center for European and Latin American Research) in Buenos Aires, and has been Professor of Political Science at FLASCO (Facultad Latinoamericana de Ciencias Sociales) and at the Universidad de Buenos Aires. He is a former Edward Larocque Tinker Visiting Professor at Columbia University, and is the author of numerous articles on Chilean, Argentine, and West European politics.

• Introduction The Right and Latin American Democracies by Douglas A. Chalmers, Maria do Carmo Campello de Souza, and Atilio Boron The Right and the Consolidation of Democracy Conservative Electoral Movements and Democratic Politics: Core Constituencies, Coalition-Building, and the Latin American Electoral Right by Edward L. Gibson Substantive or Procedural Consensus? Notes on the Latin American Bourgeoisie by Guillermo O'Donnell Conservative Political Economy in Latin America and Western Europe: The Political Sources of Privatization by Hector E. Schamis Becoming Democrats? Some Skeptical Considerations on the Right in Latin America by Atilio A. Boron Political Forces on the Right: Ideological Currents, Parties and Elections The Contemporary Faces of the Brazilian Right: An Interpretation of Style and Substance by M. Carmo Campello de Souza The Role of the Right in Political Change in Mexico, 1982-1988 by Soledad Loacza Electoral Evolution of the Political Parties of the Right: Argentina, 1983-89 by Ezequiel Gallo and Esteban F. Thomsen Religion, Values and the Right Religion, Revolution and Counterrevolution: The Role of Religious Right in Central America by Margaret E. Crahan The Latin American Church and the Papacy of Wojtyla by Jose-Maria Ghio The Ten-Year Crusade toward the Third Christian Millennium: An Account of Evangelization 2000 and Lumen 2000 by Ralph Della Cava The State, the Private Sector and the Right Privatization in the Collor Government: Triumph of Liberalism or Collapse of the Developmental State? by Ben Ross Schneider The New Right and Political Change in Peru by Francisco Durand "Liberalismo Para Todo Mundo, Menos Eu": Brazil and the Neoliberal Solution by William Nylen Profits, Politics and Size: The Political Transformation of Mexican Business by Blanca Heredia Selected Bibliography Index