Reorganizing Political Representation in Latin America: Parties, Program, and Patronage in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico

Frances Hagopian. Forthcoming. Reorganizing Political Representation in Latin America: Parties, Program, and Patronage in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.Read more

Religious Pluralism, Democracy, and the Catholic Church in Latin America

2009. Religious Pluralism, Democracy, and the Catholic Church in Latin America, Pp. 527. Notre Dame, IN: University of Notre Dame Press. Publisher's Version Abstract

The Roman Catholic Church in Latin America faces significant and unprecedented challenges. Most prominent among them are secularization, globalizing cultural trends, intensifying religious competition, and pluralism of many kinds within what were once hegemonic Catholic societies. The substantial and original essays in this volume assess the ways in which the Catholic Church in Latin America is dealing with these political, religious, and social changes. Most importantly, they explore how democracy has changed the Catholic Church and, in turn, how religious changes have influenced democratic politics in Latin America.

Drawing on the experiences of several countries to illustrate broad themes and explain divergent religious responses to common challenges, the contributors advance the notion that the Catholic Church’s effectiveness in the public sphere and even its long-term viability as a religious institution depend on the nature and extent of the relationship between the hierarchy and the faithful. The essays address the context of pluralist challenges, the ideational, institutional, and policy responses of the Catholic hierarchy, and the nature of both religious beliefs and democratic values at the individual level in Latin America today.

The Third Wave of Democratization in Latin America: Advances and Setbacks

Frances Hagopian and Scott Mainwaring. 2005. The Third Wave of Democratization in Latin America: Advances and Setbacks, Pp. 413. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Publisher's Version Abstract

This volume offers an ambitious and comprehensive overview of the unprecedented advances as well as the setbacks in the post-1978 wave of democratization. It explains the sea change from a region dominated by authoritarian regimes to one in which openly authoritarian regimes are the rare exception, and analyzes why some countries have achieved striking gains in democratization while others have experienced erosions. The book presents general theoretical arguments about what causes and sustains democracy in its analysis of nine theoretically compelling country cases.

The most comprehensive analysis of the post-1978 democratization wave in Latin America
Represents the best scholarship on the issues, but is also accessible to the general public, graduate students and advanced undergraduate students
Presents new theoretical arguments about the causes of democratization

Traditional Politics and Regime Change in Brazil

Frances Hagopian. 1996. Traditional Politics and Regime Change in Brazil, Pp. 317. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Publisher's Version Abstract

This book is about politics in Brazil during the military regime of 1964-85 and the transition to democracy. Unlike most books about contemporary Brazilian politics that focus on promising signs of change, this book seeks to explain remarkable political continuity in the Brazilian political system. It attributes the persistence of traditional politics and the dominance of regionally-based, traditional political elites in particular to the manner in which the economic and political strategies of the military, together with the transition to democracy, reinforced the clientelistic, personalistic, and regional basis of state-society relations. The book focuses on the political competition and representation in the state of Minas Gerais.

Focuses on persistence of traditional politics through three Brazilian regimes
A major contribution to the burgeoning literature on democratic transitions
Has genuinely comparative perspective

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Reorganizing Political Representation in Latin America: Parties, Program, and Patronage in Argentina, Brazil, Chile, and Mexico

Religious Pluralism, Democracy, and the Catholic Church in Latin America

The Third Wave of Democratization in Latin America: Advances and Setbacks

Traditional Politics and Regime Change in Brazil