Problem
A. How did the state of democracy change in Latin America between 1975 and 1998?
B. What are the characteristics of "incomplete" democracies?
C. What caused this wave of democracy in the region? (Compare this narrative to Blake's observations.)
D. What are the characteristics of "illiberal democracy"?
E. What is said about the role of women in politics since 1990?
F. What two structural problems are identified that were a consequence of neoliberal reforms in Latin America?
G. What was the consequence of the region's structural problems for Latin American society?
H. What were the electoral consequences of the economic and social problems caused by neoliberal economic policy?
I. How does the reading understand the meaning of the rise of the new left in Latin America?
J. What were the characteristics of early 20th century democracy in Latin America that made it "tame," and why did these democracies eventually give way to authoritarian rule in the 1930s?
K. Describe the threats that emerged from the enlargement of democracy in the region (enlargement that took place in the 1940s and 1950s).
L. As mass politics emerged in the region in the 1940s and 1950s, what political actors came to see democracy as dangerous? Respectively (that is, by each category of political actor), what threats did they see?
M. Compare the views you described in the previous two questions to Blake's description of this period (see the section headed "The Second Wave of Democratization and the Rise of State Capitalism").
N. In the next wave of democracy, how did democracy come to no longer be "a social provocation or a threat"?
O. How does the text explain the emergence of the "new left"?
P. What was the "pendulum" effect described by the reading's conclusion.