TY  - BOOK
AU  - Foweraker,Joe
TI  - Polity: Demystifying Democracy in Latin America and Beyond 
SN  - 9781626377271
U1  - 320.98 23
PY  - 2022///]
CY  - Boulder : 
PB  - Lynne Rienner Publishers, 
KW  - Democracy
KW  - Latin America
KW  - Latin America-Politics and government
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE / Political ideologies / Democracy
KW  - bisacsh
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Preface --; Acknowledgments --; 1 Polity and Latin America --; 2 Polity as a Political System --; 3 The Making of the Modern Polity --; 4 State, Regime, and Civil Society --; 5 Polity, Inequality, and the Republic --; 6 Populism and Polity --; 7 Constitutionalism and Polity --; 8 Polity, Rights, and Protest --; 9 Demystifying Democracy --; References --; Index --; About the Book; restricted access
N2  - Amidst the many lamentations about the problems of democracy, Joe Foweraker turns his attention to specific questions: Is democracy incompatible with stark social inequalities? Why are so many democratic governments deemed unaccountable and beset by populist pressures? Perhaps most fundamentally, why does democratic theory have no answers to these questions? Foweraker argues that finding answers requires a root-and-branch revision of our thinking about democracy—a revision that asks us to stop talking about "democracy" and start talking about "polity." Drawing on the political realities of Latin America, he describes polity as a system encompassing the distinct but conjoined domains of oligarchy and democracy; and he offers a conceptual framework that identifies the key components and logic of polity. His innovative analysis affords a better understanding not only of democracy in Latin America, but also of democratic regimes around the world
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781626377271
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781626377271
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781626377271/original
ER  -