Building Democracy in Latin America.(Power and Responsibility: Politics, Identity and Technology in Music)(Review) (book review)

Building Democracy in Latin America. By John Peeler. Boulder, CO: Lynne Rienner, 1998. 240p. $55.00 cloth, $19.95 paper.

John Peeler provides a wide-ranging reflection on a multiplicity of factors conducive to democratization in the region. His book succeeds primarily as an introductory-level review of theory and evidence on Latin American democratization. The author covers familiar intellectual territory for scholars of democratization and provides little in the way of new insights or theoretical innovation. Rather, Peeler's objective is to synthesize a vast theoretical ...

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