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This text examines the obstacles Latin American countries face in their efforts at democratic reform, including political institutions, a strong authoritarian tradition, the influence of neoliberal economic policies, the shortsightedness of the ruling classes and hopelessness among the poor.

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• Preface(p. vii)
• 1 Between Hobbes and Friedman: Liberalism, Dictatorship, and Democracy in Recent Latin American History(p. 1)
• 2 Market, State, and Democracy: Observations on the Political Theory of Monetarism(p. 33)
• 3 Alexis De Tocqueville, Democracy, and the """"Statism"""" of Bourgeois Society(p. 69)
• 4 Stadolatry and the """"State-Centered"""" Approach: the Relative Autonomy of the Capitalist State(p. 95)
• 5 Democracy and Social Reform in Latin America: Reflections on the European Experience(p. 139)
• 6 Neoliberalism's Strayed Reason: State and Capitalist Accumulation in Contemporary Societies(p. 169)
• 7 Democracy in Latin America: Problems and Prospects(p. 189)
• 8 Marxist Political Theory Between the Transformations of Capitalism and the Collapse of """"Really Existing Socialism""""(p. 221)
• Index(p. 253)
• About the Book(p. 262)

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The rapid global spread of democracy during the past decade has stimulated unduly optimistic expectations for the future in Latin America. Boron, a noted Argentine political theorist, questions many of the basic assumptions about democratization in a brilliant intellectual tour de force. He draws on a host of theorists from Aristotle forward to examine the nature of capitalism and its inherent weaknesses and self-contradictions. While skewering neoliberal economic thought and rejecting as unrealistic its belief that the state will necessarily shrink in size and importance, Boron is also sharply critical of both developmental and Marxist thought. He sets forth the imposing array of threats to democracy that confront Latin America today: institutional frailty, economic imbalances, an elitist tradition, authoritarian cultural patterns, and the gap between the poor and the wealthy. He describes the economic crisis of the 1980s and 1990s as aggravating social injustice, thereby adding to the challenges facing political democratization. Although skeptical about prospects for the future, Boron is unwilling to accept democratic social reform as doomed. Graduate; faculty. J. D. Martz; Pennsylvania State University, University Park Campus