Polarization and Democracy in Latin America

Legacies of the Left Turn

AvSantiago Anria,Kenneth M. Roberts

Inbunden, Engelska, 2026

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An insightful examination of Latin America’s contemporary democratic landscape and how it is marked by patterns of polarization and volatility.Although Latin American democracies have shown considerable resilience, today they face new forms of political polarization and instability. These challenges are closely connected to the legacies of the region’s “left turn,” which sought to transform entrenched inequalities and social hierarchies in the early twenty-first century. Unprecedented in its scope and duration, the left turn reflected an underlying realignment of political contestation in a highly unequal region. Yet despite notable achievements in addressing social needs, leftist parties struggled to deepen democracy by empowering popular majorities, and they faced powerful elite backlashes. Through a comparative analysis of seven South American countries, Santiago Anria and Kenneth M. Roberts trace the different origins and trajectories in power of the populist and social democratic currents that emerged within the left turn. Anria and Roberts argue that today’s democratic orders face intensifying polarization and institutional fragility, even where social democratic parties made explicit efforts to build broad coalitions and temper political conflict. They show how activist networks and social movements on the left and the right triggered latent political conflicts and are now reshaping democratic competition and the terms of social inclusion in South American politics.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2026-04-03
Mått:152 x 229 x 25 mm
Vikt:540 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:280
Förlag:The University of Chicago Press
ISBN:9780226847603

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Politik och statsskick inom Samhälle och politik

Mer om författaren

Santiago Anria is associate professor in the department of Global Labor & Work at Cornell University’s School of Industrial and Labor Relations. Kenneth M. Roberts is the Richard J. Schwartz Professor of Government at Cornell University and a faculty fellow of the Democratic Threats and Resilience Initiative at Cornell’s Mario Einaudi Center for International Studies.

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“Drawing on rich case studies, the political scientists Anria and Roberts trace the struggles of Latin America’s left-wing forces in recent decades."

Innehållsförteckning

List of IllustrationsIntroduction: Democracy and Polarization in Latin AmericaChapter 1: The Left Turn, Democracy, and Dynamics of PolarizationChapter 2: The Social Democratic Left and the Conformist TemptationChapter 3: The Populist Left and the Autocratic TemptationChapter 4: Comparative Perspectives: Argentina, Ecuador, and UruguayChapter 5: Latin America’s “New” Polarization: A Multidimensional ApproachConclusion: Polarization, Democracy, and the Leftist DilemmaAcknowledgmentsAppendixNotesReferencesIndex

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