Spanish and Latin American Transitions to Democracy

by Raanan Rein

This volume compares the Spanish and Latin American 'double transitions' to liberal democracy and an open-market economy. Spain's transitions in the 1960 to 1980s have become the paradigmatic case of successful institutional transformation, and thus the standard for the evaluation of the economic and political change in Latin America and Central/Eastern Europe in the 1980s and 1990s. Even though most Latin American countries have transformed their...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1903900735
• ISBN13: 9781903900734
• Release Date: April 2005
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 246 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.3" x 9.2"