Politics and Social Change in Latin America: Still a Distinct Tradition? Fourth Edition, Revised and Updated

Wiarda provides a new edition of a pioneering exploration of Latin American political culture, the autoritarian tradition, and the recent transitions to democracy and the special meaning of that term in the Latin American context. The volume contains a provocative Introduction and Conclusion by the editor as well as essays by leading scholars of Latin American politics and history: Richard Morse, Octavio Paz, Glen Dealy, Peter Smith, and others. This is a classic collection, newly revised and updated. This Revised Edition Offers A Comprehensive Survey Of The Politics Of Latin America. It Includes Essays By Richard Morse, Octavio Paz, Glen Dealy, Peter Smith & Other Notable Commentators. Interpreting Latin America's Politics On Its Own Terms / Howard J. Wiarda And Margaret Macleish Mott -- Patterns Of Continuity In Latin American Society: Political And Historical Perspectives / Roland H. Ebel -- Two Cultures And Political Behavior In Latin America / Glen Caudill Dealy -- The Latin American Tradition / Roland H. Ebel And Raymond Taras -- The Spanish American Past: Enemy Of Change / Donald E. Worcester -- Science, Technology, And Hispanic America / Irving A. Leonard -- Claims Of A Political Tradition / Richard M. Morse -- Historical Determinants Of The Latin American State: The Tradition Of Bureaucratic-patrimonialism, Corporatism, Centralism, And Authoritarianism / Howard J. Wiarda -- The Tradition Of Higher Laws In Latin America / Margaret Macleish Mott -- Latin America And Democracy / Octavio Paz -- From El Cid To El Che: The Hero And The Mystique Of Liberation In Latin America / Dolores Moyano Martin -- Latin America's Magical Liberalism / Tina Rosenberg -- The News About Religion In Latin America / Daniel H. Levine -- On Democracy And Democratization / Peter H. Smith -- Consensus Found, Consensus Lost: Disjunctures In U. S. Policy Toward Latin America In The New Millenium / Howard J. Wiarda. Edited By Howard J. Wiarda And Margaret Macleish Mott. Includes Bibliographical References (p. [293]-300) And Index. In an effort to rid the discipline of ethnocentric tendencies, political scientists, in the business of comparing political systems, have struggled to put together a model of political development that explains Latin America's experience as something distinct from, but parallel to, that of Western Europe and the United States.