Christian Democracy in Latin America
Christian Democracy in Latin America

Author: Scott Mainwaring

Publisher: Stanford University Press

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 428

ISBN-13: 9780804745987

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Christian Democracy swept across parts of Latin America, gaining influence in Venezuela in the 1940s, Chile in the 1950s, El Salvador and Guatemala in the 1960s, and Costa Rica and Mexico in the 1980s. This book offers an overview of Christian Democracy in the region— underscoring its remarkable diversity—and examines the Christian Democratic organizations of Chile and Mexico, which are still major parties today. The concluding section analyzes the demise of formerly significant Christian Democratic parties in El Salvador, Guatemala, Peru, and Venezuela. Christian Democracy in Latin America provides the definitive stufy of the nature, rise, and decline of Christian Democracy in Latin America. The book enriches the broader theoretical literature on political parties by highlighting the distinctive strategic dilemmas parties face, and the distinctive objectives they pursue, in contexts of fragile democracy or of authoritarian regimes.

La democracia cristiana en América Latina
La democracia cristiana en América Latina

Author: Mainwaring, Scott y Timothy R. Scully

Publisher: Fondo de Cultura Economica

Published: 2012-09-30

Total Pages: 442

ISBN-13: 9786071611451

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Los estudios compilados en el libro analizan el papel y el impacto que la democracia cristiana y los partidos democratacristianos han tenido en la configuración de la vida política de Latinoamérica. Estos estudios nos muestran cómo la democracia cristiana en estas latitudes ha irrumpido en el campo de la pluralidad, en ocasiones acercándose al socialismo y a la izquierda, y en otras mostrándose defensora e impulsora de la iniciativa privada. Asimismo, dichos estudios han logrado introducir la realidad de setos partidos en un escenario más allá del catolicismo, es decir, como verdaderos grupos políticos que han luchado por instaurar la democracia en sus países, contextualizando la situación de los mismos en una época en que toda Latinoamérica era objeto de regímenes opresores.

The Church, Dictatorships, and Democracy in Latin America
The Church, Dictatorships, and Democracy in Latin America

Author: Jeffrey Klaiber

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2009-09-01

Total Pages: 337

ISBN-13: 1606089471

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No book in any language equals The Church, Dictatorships, and Democracy in Latin America for its comparative breadth. Historians, social scientists, and general readers will cull from it the conditions needed for the church to play a positive and creative role in furthering human rights and democracy. -John A. Coleman, SJ Loyola Marymount University Jeffrey Klaiber's book offers a wonderfully informative history of the Church's role in Latin American struggles to defend human rights and achieve democracy. Anyone who has followed with concern and interest these recent struggles-from military dictatorships in Brazil and Chile, through the violent conflicts in Central America, to the most recent struggles in Chiapas, Mexico-will find this remarkably comprehensive study of eleven different nations an invaluable text. -Arthur F. McGovern, SJ University of Detroit This volume provides readers with the first comprehensive view of the church during a defining period of Latin American history. This is an invaluable study by a longtime and astute observer. -Edward L. Cleary, OP Providence College A compelling account of the role of the church during the dictatorships and internal wars in eleven countries of Latin America . . . by an eminent historian. -Gerald H. Anderson Director of Overseas Ministries Study Center

The Christian Democrat International
The Christian Democrat International

Author: Roberto Papini

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 1997

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 9780847683000

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This text examines the history, organisation and continuing worldwide influence of the International Christian Democratic movement, which currently has nearly 70 parties on five continents. It demonstrates how a religious political movement has acquired such wide political influence.

Abortion and Democracy
Abortion and Democracy

Author: Barbara Sutton

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2021-08-05

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 1000404463

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Abortion and Democracy offers critical analyses of abortion politics in Latin America’s Southern Cone, with lessons and insights of wider significance. Drawing on the region’s recent history of military dictatorship and democratic transition, this edited volume explores how abortion rights demands fit with current democratic agendas. With a focus on Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay, the book’s contributors delve into the complex reality of abortion through the examination of the discourses, strategies, successes, and challenges of abortion rights movements. Assembling a multiplicity of voices and experiences, the contributions illuminate key dimensions of abortion rights struggles: health aspects, litigation efforts, legislative debates, party politics, digital strategies, grassroots mobilization, coalition-building, affective and artistic components, and movement-countermovement dynamics. The book takes an approach that is sensitive to social inequalities and to the transnational aspects of abortion rights struggles in each country. It bridges different scales of analysis, from abortion experiences at the micro level of the clinic or the home to the macro sociopolitical and cultural forces that shape individual lives. This is an important intervention suitable for students and scholars of abortion politics, democracy in Latin America, gender and sexuality, and women’s rights.

Latin America: Its Future in the Global Economy
Latin America: Its Future in the Global Economy

Author: P. Rich

Publisher: Springer

Published: 2001-11-14

Total Pages: 298

ISBN-13: 0230554598

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Latin America: It's Future in the Global Economy is a timely contribution to the effort to meet the complex challenges entailed in Latin America's increasing participation in world markets. Taking into account the recent changes in the region and a future WTO conference, twelve economists and two international trade lawyers provide a framework for the analysis of trade negotiations by identifying key points of disagreement among trading partners, and discuss controversial issues such as the environment, labour and agriculture, exceptional protection, investment, services, e-commerce and the efficiency of the dispute settlement mechanism. The contributors identify the optimum approach for Latin America to take in protecting its interests and enhancing its advantages in global trade, and assess the various tools that negotiators might use during the forthcoming round of multilateral negotiations. They make concrete recommendations concerning trade strategy, policy, implementation and management together with suggestions as to how Latin America and other developing countries can increase their bargaining power in order to deal with new circumstances as they arise.

The Cambridge History of Latin America
The Cambridge History of Latin America

Author: Leslie Bethell

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 1984

Total Pages: 944

ISBN-13: 9780521266529

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Enth.: Bd. 1-2: Colonial Latin America ; Bd. 3: From Independence to c. 1870 ; Bd. 4-5: c. 1870 to 1930 ; Bd. 6-10: Latin America since 1930 ; Bd. 11: Bibliographical essays.

What is Christian Democracy?
What is Christian Democracy?

Author: Carlo Invernizzi Accetti

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2019-10-03

Total Pages: 401

ISBN-13: 1108386156

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Christian Democratic actors and thinkers have been at the forefront of many of the twentieth century's key political battles - from the construction of the international human rights regime, through the process of European integration and the creation of postwar welfare regimes, to Latin American development policies during the Cold War. Yet their core ideas remain largely unknown, especially in the English-speaking world. Combining conceptual and historical approaches, Carlo Invernizzi Accetti traces the development of this ideology in the thought and writings of some of its key intellectual and political exponents, from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day. In so doing he sheds light on a number of important contemporary issues, from the question of the appropriate place of religion in presumptively 'secular' liberal-democratic regimes, to the normative resources available for building a political response to the recent rise of far-right populism.