Understanding Latin American Politics: A Short Introduction

by Clive S. Thomas and S. Thomas Clive

Book Overview

This book's central goal is to help undergraduate students taking their first course in Latin American politics make the transition from understanding the factors that shape democracies--the systems with which they are most familiar--to those that shape the political values, politics, and governmental institutions of the authoritarian tradition and qualified democratic systems of Latin America.

It is a short, pithy introduction written in...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0415988446
• ISBN13: 9780415988445
• Release Date: December 2023
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 175 Pages