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THIS ARTICLE DISPUTES A WIDELY ACCEPTED ASSUMPTION THAT POLITICAL CRITICISM, AS MEASURED WITH LOW SCORES OF TRUST IN GOVERNMENT, CAN BE EQUATED AS POLITICAL CYNICISM. PATH ANALYSES OF DATA FROM A NATIONAL SURVEY SHOW DISTINCTIONS, WHERE CRITICISM IS TRIGGERED BY POLITICAL ORIENTATIONS AND CYNICISM IS A RIGIDIFIED FORM OF CRITICISM.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Acknowledgments -- List of Acronyms -- Introduction -- PART ONE: THEORETICAL AND COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVES -- 1 Democratic Transition in Comparative Perspective -- 2 Democratic Establishments: A Dimensional Analysis -- 3 Mass and Elite Perspectives in the Process of Transition to Democracy -- PART TWO: SOUTH AMERICAN CASES -- 4 From Diarchy to Polyarchy: Prospects for Democracy in Chile -- 5 Dilemmas of the Consolidation of Democracy in Argentina -- 6 The Political Transition in Brazil: From Authoritarian Liberalization and Elite Conciliation to Democratization -- 7 Political Parties and Elections in the Process of Transition in Uruguay -- PART THREE: ON GOVERNABILITY -- 8 Argentina: Political Transition and Institutional Weakness in Comparative Perspective -- 9 Conclusion: Toward a Framework for the Study of Democratic Consolidation -- Glossary -- About the Contributors -- Index.

Critics of the elections of the Salvadoran transition assume an external staging capacity notoriously absent from processes of regime change. Here, statistical data are analyzed to investigate possible determinants of voting turnout in the elections of 1982-1991. Results suggest a much more complex picture, characteristic of social processes shaped by multiple conjuctural causation. It is not the machinations of the Reagan administration & the Salvadoran Right, but a complex interaction of legal requirements, contextual nuances, & factors related to party competition that shaped the nature & outcomes of those elections. Whatever demonstrative effects may be attributed to them, their impact on a domestic audience of ordinary citizens & political leaders who eventually came to understand their limitation as well as their ultimate efficacy cannot be ignored. 5 Tables, 89 References. Adapted from the source document.

Review essay of the book "To make a world safe for revolution: Cuba's foreign policy" by Jorge Dominguez. According to Baloyra, the connection between foreign policy and domestic legitimacy is particularly robust in the case of Cuba

El autor analiza la forma en que los latinoamericanistas han percibido y medido los procesos de transicion democratica en el hemisferio. Presenta una definicion de la democracia y expone las contradicciones basicas de la vida politica que afectan a los diferentes tipos de regimenes. Por ultimo, intenta extraer aportes de la literatura contemporanea para discutir algunos de los dilemas no resueltos de la democratizacion en America Latina