What becomes clear throughout is that there is a paradox at the heart of Latin America's democracies. Despite decades of struggle to replace authoritarian dicta

Political scientists have worried about declining levels of citizens' support for their regimes (legitimacy), but have failed to empirically link this decline t

The American hemisphere is now more tightly interconnected than ever before, with the trend toward greater economic, social and cultural integration apparently

Praised by some as islands of efficiency in a sea of unprofessional, politicized, and corrupt states, and criticized by others for removing wide areas of policy