An Unequal Democracy? PDF Download

Author: Carlo Binetti
Publisher: IDB
ISBN: 1597820199
Category : Democracy
Languages : en
Pages : 179

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Author: Petra Bonometti
Publisher: Ewe Editorial Acad MIA Espa Ola
ISBN: 9783848465439
Category :
Languages : es
Pages : 84

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En los ultimos treinta anos America Latina ha experimentado la transicion y la consolidacion democratica.Sin embargo, la democracia en America Latina presenta elementos de debilidad relacionados con la incapacidad del Estado de extender los derechos humanos fundamentales a toda la poblacion. Pese a las diferencias entre todos los paises de America Latina, algunas caracteristicas comunes explican la debilidad democratica; la desigualdad es la mas relevante, pues los mayores niveles de concentracion de la riqueza mundial se encuentran en esa region.La desigualdad que caracteriza a los paises latinoamericanos se relaciona con la subsistencia de bolsas de pobreza e indigencia que chocan con los valores medios de riqueza de los paises.La desigualdad afecta tambien las dinamicas de acceso al poder por la poblacion, a traves de medios como la violencia y la corrupcion. Sin una accion decidida sobre las desigualdades, la democracia en America Latina tiene un destino muy incierto.El papel del Estado en el diseno y aplicacion de politicas publicas es fundamental para afrontar las dinamicas generadas por unas pautas de desarrollo no equitativas.

Author: Xóchitl Bada
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0190926554
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 905

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The essays included in this volume provide both an assessment of key areas and current trends in sociology, specifically with regard to contemporary sociology in Latin America, as well as a collection of innovative empirical studies. The volume serves as an effective bridge of communication allowing sociological academies to mobilize and disseminate research dynamics from Latin America to the rest of the world.

Author: Diego Sánchez-Ancochea
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1838606254
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 217

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From the United States to the United Kingdom and from China to India, growing inequality has led to social discontent and the emergence of populist parties, also contributing to economic crises. We urgently need a better understanding of the roots and costs of these income gaps. The Costs of Inequality draws on the experience of Latin America, one of the most unequal regions of the world, to demonstrate how inequality has hampered economic growth, contributed to a lack of good jobs, weakened democracy, and led to social divisions and mistrust. In turn, low growth, exclusionary politics, violence and social mistrust have reinforced inequality, generating various vicious circles. Latin America thus provides a disturbing image of what the future may hold in other countries if we do not act quickly. It also provides some useful lessons on how to fight income concentration and build more equitable societies.

Author: R. Feinberg
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 1403983240
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 199

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A dense web of private associations drawn from multiple social classes, interest groups and value communities makes for a firm foundation for strong democracy. In Latin America today, will civil society improve the quality of democracy or will it foster political polarization and reverse recent progress? Distinguished theorists from the United States, Canada and Latin America explore the diverse impact of civil society on economic performance, political parties, and state institutions. In-depth and up-to-date country studies explore the consequences of civil society for the durability of democracy in three highly dynamic, controversial settings: Argentina, Brazil and Venezuela.

Author: Bernardo Sorj
Publisher: SciELO - Centro Edelstein
ISBN: 8579820812
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 251

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Based on the work of twenty renowned experts from the region, this ground-breaking book traces the new face of Latin America using clear, straightfoward language that is accessible to a general audience. The current panorama in the region creates new opportunities and dangers for social cohesion in democracy and a revitalized critical approach is needed to arrive at a global interpretation of the social dynamics in Latin America.

Author: Margit Ystanes
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 331961536X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 299

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This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license. This edited volume examines how economic processes have worked upon social lives and social realities in Latin America during the past decades. Through tracing the effects of the neoliberal epoch into the era of the so-called pink tide, the book seeks to understand to what extent the turn to the left at the start of the millennium managed to challenge historically constituted configurations of inequality. A central argument in the book is that in spite of economic reforms and social advances on a range of arenas, the fundamental tenants of socio-economic inequalities have not been challenged substantially. As several countries are now experiencing a return to right-wing politics, this collection helps us better understand why inequalities are so entrenched in the Latin American continent, but also the complex and creative ways that it is continuously contested. The book directs itself to students, scholars and anyone interested in Latin America, economic anthropology, political anthropology, left-wing politics, poverty and socio-economic inequalities.

Author: Ana Alejandra Germani
Publisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1351531484
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 366

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In this fascinating account of the master social scientist and policy innovator, Gino Germani, written by his daughter, the reader will find a rich social and intellectual history. Germani's life traversed Italy under Mussolini's fascism, Argentina under Peronism, and North America during the glorious days of the social sciences' postwar expansion. With high irony, the biography concludes with Germani's return to Naples, Italy, as what Ana Germani correctly calls "an outsider in the homeland." This is a volume that should be uniquely appealing to area specialists, social psychologists, and those concerned with the cross-currents of politics and society. From his youth in Italy, which he left as a result of persecution by the Fascist authorities, through his long and distinguished career in international social science, and a career carved out in a series of exiles, Germani maintained a unity of purpose based on a liberal world outlook in political terms and a struggle against totalitarianism. Social science was the cement that bound Germani's affirmations of democracy and his opposition to dictatorship. In Argentina, Germani is recognized as the founder of modern scientific sociology. There as elsewhere, his work was grounded on the presumption that a biometric society was the ground on which all science develops. Living and working during one of the most fertile periods in the development of social research in Argentina, Germani was the central protagonist of its most fertile period. Argentina served as a central focal point for discussion and debate on the practices of modern societies and the cultural forms. Whether in Italy, Argentina, or the United States, German's work took seriously the individual and transpersonal events that helped form social structures of modernization. The book is rich in details, providing a full bibliography of the works of Germani, his relationships with foundations, universities and personnel, and brief profiles of individuals who worked with and knew him.

Author: Graciela Tonon
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 3319531832
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 290

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This book presents a reconfiguration of the concepts of community in Latin countries as well as the community quality of life and well-being of different groups: children, young people, older adults, migrants. The traditional concept of community has changed together with the way people participate in community spaces. Community nowadays is more than a geographic concentration; it is related to social support, inter-subjectivity, participation, consensus, common beliefs, joint effort aiming at a major objective, and intense and extensive relationships. This volume presents unique experiences about culture, social development, health, water, armed conflicts, the digital media, and sports within communities, written by authors from Latin countries. This volume is a valuable resource for researchers, students, and policy makers in quality of life studies.

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Publisher: Teseo
ISBN: 9871354266
Category : Social Science
Languages : es
Pages : 202

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Este libro es resultado de un trabajo colectivo llevado adelante por un grupo de investigadores de distintos perfiles, orígenes institucionales y hasta de diferentes edades. La idea que los convocó fue la posibilidad de desarrollar, a partir de la construcción de la noción dominio político, algunos de los ya clásicos problemas tratados por la Ciencia Política. Las cuestiones de orden metodológico, las correspondientes al Estado, la democracia, la representación, la ciudadanía y los movimientos sociales se tomaron como casos testigos del desafío teórico asumido. Estos fenómenos debían ser construidos en sus propias singularidades para ser enmarcados en el cuadro ofrecido por el dominio político como noción devenida en categoría-instrumento.