Democracies and Dictatorships in Latin America by Scott Mainwaring & Aníbal Pérez-Liñán

Author:Scott Mainwaring & Aníbal Pérez-Liñán [Mainwaring and Pérez-Liñán]
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013-11-18T23:00:00+00:00

Modernization and Structural Explanations of Persistent Authoritarianism

Many works have argued that economic backwardness and poverty are unfavorable to democracy and foster authoritarianism. This approach could potentially explain persistent authoritarianism in El Salvador because it was a poor country. A second common structural explanation of persistent authoritarianism in El Salvador is coffee-based agriculture. Both accounts offer important insights but overstate the direct effects of social structures on regime outcomes.

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