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Part of the Morality & Society Series (Alan Wolfe, editor), shows how citizens of Latin America established strong democratic traditions in their countries through the practice of democracy in their everyday lives. Considers the development of democratic life in Mexico & Peru from independence to the late 1890s & traces the emergence of political, economic, & civic associations run by citizens in both nations & shows how these organizations became models for democracy in the face of dictatorship & economic hardship. Looks beneath institutions of government to uncover local & civil organizations in public life & reveals a tradition of edification & inculcation that shaped democratic practices in Latin America. Adapted from the source document.

This book aims to assess the shifting frontiers of citizenship in Latin America, analyzing contemporary practices and redefinitions, the impact and limits of the Liberal model of citizenship, the emergence of alternative models, and the transnational dimensions and the prospects of different paradigms of citizenship in the region in recent decades.

While in the days of the Cold War models of citizenship were relatively clear-cut around the contrasting projects of reform and revolution, in the last three decades Latin America has become a laboratory for comparative research. The region has witnessed both a renewal of electoral democracy and the diversification of experiments in citizen representation and participation. The implementation of neo-liberal policies has led to countervailing transformations in democratic citizenship and to the rise of populist leaderships, while the crisis of representation has been accompanied by new forms of participation, generating profound transformations. The authors analyze these recent trends, reflected in new forms of populism, inclusion and exclusion, participation and alternative models of democracy, social insecurity and violence, diasporas and transnationalism, the politics of justice and the politics of identity and multiculturalism.