Democratic Transition and Consolidation in Southern Europe, Latin America and Southeast Asia

Download or read book Democratic Transition and Consolidation in Southern Europe, Latin America and Southeast Asia written by Diane Ethier and published by Palgrave Macmillan. This book was released on 1990-10-10 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The breakdown of authoritarian regimes in Greece, Spain and Portugal in the mid-70s was the beginning of a new cycle of democratization at the world scale. The 1980s have seen the emergence of formal, constitutional democracies in many countries, especially in Latin America and Southeast Asia. This book analyses in a comparative perspective the causes, the modalities and the prospects of these political changes in three regions: Southern Europe, Latin America and Southeast Asia.