Politics of the Periphery: An Introduction to Subnational Authoritarianism and Democratization in Latin America

The article is an introduction to the topic featured in JPLA 2/2010 "Subnational Authoritarianism and Democratization in Latin America." It discusses the papers by Carlos Gervasoni, Agustina Giraudy, Julián Durazo Herrmann, Alfred P. Montero, and Tracy Beck Fenwick that follow in this issu...

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Published in:Journal of politics in Latin America 2010-01, Vol.2 (2), p.3-12
Main Author: Gibson, Edward L.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Authoritarianism
Centre-periphery relations
Democratization
Federal States (Subnational)
Latin America
Methodology
Political conditions
Political Science
Political Science Theories
Political Systems
Regional analysis
Subnational government
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Summary:The article is an introduction to the topic featured in JPLA 2/2010 "Subnational Authoritarianism and Democratization in Latin America." It discusses the papers by Carlos Gervasoni, Agustina Giraudy, Julián Durazo Herrmann, Alfred P. Montero, and Tracy Beck Fenwick that follow in this issue. Why feature the topic “subnational authoritarianism and democratization” in the ? Because despite widespread agreement that subnational jurisdictions in Latin America vary considerably in the democratic character of their politics, political scientists are still largely in the dark about how to conceptualize and measure this situation, and have scant knowledge about mechanisms that sustain and undermine it. This collection of articles makes major headway toward clearing our methodological and theoretical ignorance of these topics.
ISSN:1866-802X
1868-4890
DOI:10.1177/1866802X1000200201