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Politics and Social Change
in Latin America: Still a Distinct Tradition?
Edited by Howard J. Wiarda and Margaret MacLeish Mott
$27.95
Praeger Publishers |
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Book explores Latin American politics
Politics and Social Change in Latin America explores
Latin American political culture, the authoritarian tradition and
the recent transitions to democracy. It is edited by Howard J. Wiarda,
head of UGA’s international affairs department, and Margaret
MacLeish Mott, professor of political theory at Marlboro College
in Vermont.
This volume is aimed at challenging the easy, often biased and ethnocentric
ideas about Latin America. The interpretations included here examine
what the special -requirements of Latin American development are,
provide the historical and background materials for a better comprehension
of the area, and explore the political theory, sociological processes
and institutional structures by which development in Latin America
takes place (or fails to take place). The book both criticizes the
often inappropriate models of development and modernization based
on the U.S. or northwest European experiences and begins to formulate
a framework for understanding that is more attuned to the distinct
traditions and processes of Latin American development. |
