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Bejarano, Ana Maria.

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Perverse democratization: Pacts, institutions, and problematic consolidations in Colombia and Venezuela.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Perverse democratization: Pacts, institutions, and problematic consolidations in Colombia and Venezuela./
Author:	Bejarano, Ana Maria.
Description:	393 p.
Notes:	Adviser: Douglas A. Chalmers.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International61-04A.
Subject:	History, Latin American. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=9970147
ISBN:	0599751142

Perverse democratization: Pacts, institutions, and problematic consolidations in Colombia and Venezuela.
Bejarano, Ana Maria.

Perverse democratization: Pacts, institutions, and problematic consolidations in Colombia and Venezuela. - 393 p.

Adviser: Douglas A. Chalmers.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Columbia University, 2000.

This dissertation discusses the democratization literature in the light of a comparison between two long-overlooked Latin American cases, Colombia and Venezuela. The research findings call into question the unilinear assumptions that link successful transitions with unproblematic consolidations.

ISBN: 0599751142Subjects--Topical Terms:

1017580
History, Latin American.

Perverse democratization: Pacts, institutions, and problematic consolidations in Colombia and Venezuela.
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520 $a This dissertation discusses the democratization literature in the light of a comparison between two long-overlooked Latin American cases, Colombia and Venezuela. The research findings call into question the unilinear assumptions that link successful transitions with unproblematic consolidations.
520 $a Transitions are treated as crucial episodes of institutional design and the resulting pacts as institutional blueprints. But while transitions can be understood as moments of high indeterminacy, where constraints are low and strategic choices are crucial, consolidations must be seen from a long term, historical perspective. The burden of the past weighs heavier during the consolidation phase than during the transition.
520 $a By distinguishing the conditions that make a transition to democracy possible, from those that make democratic consolidation viable, the dissertation contributes to a better understanding of key issues such as the impact of socio-economic structures, political institutions and agency on regime evolution. It argues that historical institutionalism and the concept of “structured contingency” combined make the most suitable analytical approach to the emergence and consolidation of democracy. Furthermore, it claims that neither socio-economic structures, nor contingent choice are satisfactory explanations of regime change. Instead, long-term political institutional variables such as the state's nature and strength, and the type of political parties and party systems, have a stronger explanatory power with regards to democratic transition and consolidation.
520 $a Democratic consolidation is conceived as a contentious institutionalization process whereby the institutions typical of democracy become resilient (that is, at once strong and flexible) and self-sustaining. However, institutionalization <italic> tout court</italic> cannot be taken as synonymous with consolidation. There can be virtuous or perverse patterns of institutionalization. Thus, not only the degree but also the type of institutionalization is relevant for the consolidation of democracy. Between the expected dichotomy of outcomes (authoritarian regression versus full democratic consolidation) lies a gray area in which a diversity of regimes can emerge and become institutionalized. One of these outcomes, as exemplified by Colombia and Venezuela, is the institutionalization of weak and incomplete democracies, or what I have termed “perversely institutionalized democracies”.
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