Radicals, Reformers, and Reactionaries: The Prisoner's Dilemma and the Collapse of Democracy in Latin America

by Youssef Cohen

Book Overview

Latin American democracies of the sixties and seventies, most theories hold, collapsed because they had become incompatible with the structural requirements of capitalist development. In this groundbreaking application of game theory to political phenomena, Youssef Cohen argues that structural conditions in Latin American countries did not necessarily preclude the implementation of social and economic reforms within a democratic framework.

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• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226112721
• ISBN13: 9780226112725
• Release Date: November 2007
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.4"