The Legitimacy Puzzle in Latin America


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This book examines citizens' attitudes toward the legitimacy of their political systems and the relationship between political legitimacy and democratic stability.







Latin American Political Culture


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Latin American Political Culture: Public Opinion and Democracy presents a genuinely pan-Latin American examination of the region’s contemporary political culture. This is the only book to extensively investigate the attitudes and behaviors of Latin Americans based on the Latin American Public Opinion Project’s (LAPOP) AmericasBarometer surveys. The findings reveal a complex Latin America with distinct political culture. Authors John Booth and Patricia Bayer Richard join rigorous analysis with clear graphic presentation and extensive examples, and readers learn about public opinion research, engage with further questions for analysis, and have access to data, an expansive bibliography, and links to appendices.













The Fictions of Latin American Law and their Strategic Uses


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Challenges the distorted hegemonic accounts of Latin American law and reveals their geopolitical and economic consequences in the world today.







Establishing Legitimacy and Democratic Rule of Law in Latin America


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ABSTRACT: This dissertation examines the effect of democratization and legitimacy of law and legal authorities on victimization among individuals in 12 Latin American countries, using data from the Latin American Public Opinion Project (LAPOP). Much research in Latin America either focuses on individual countries within the region or lumps a group of dissimilar countries together in order to examine trends and patterns of victimization. However, scholars agree that the political contexts of each country can be vastly different in many cases. Therefore, this dissertation also examines the differences among the countries with regard to legitimacy and democratization as well as the differences in victimization. Furthermore this dissertation compares results for individual victimization for each country to the aggregated results from responses of individuals across the 12 Latin American countries.