Oligarchy in the Americas
Comparing Oligarchic Rule in Latin America and the United States
This book explores the continuity of oligarchic rule in the Americas of the modern period, with a focus on the variable compatibility of oligarchic rule and democratic government. This focus sets the terms for a comparative inquiry that creates a novel perspective on the politics of Latin America and the United States alike. The continuity depends on the formation of a patrimonial State and a porous division between oligarchic interests and the public sphere of democratic politics; but it also depends on a capacity to adapt and change, and these changes are marked by successive and distinctive modes of rule in both Latin America and the Unite…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-3-030-63146-8
- EAN: 9783030631468
- Produktnummer: 35448050
- Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2020
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 1'309 KB
Über den Autor
Joe Foweraker is Emeritus Fellow at St. Antony's College at the University of Oxford, and Honorary Professor at the University of Exeter, UK. He is the former Professor of Latin American Politics and Head of the School of Interdisciplinary Areas Studies at the University of Oxford, and author of Polity: Demystifying Democracy in Latin America and Beyond (2018).
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