Polity: Demystifying Democracy in Latin America & Beyond

by Joe Foweraker (Author)

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  Hardcover
  2018

  $54.74

  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?