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Se reproduce el trabajo presentado en el Segundo Seminario Latinoamericano para el Desarrollo, organizado por la UNESCO y la FLACSO, Santiago de Chile, entre el 9 y el 29 de noviembre de 1970. (Tareas/DÜI)

"New democracies" are identified as regimes that have emerged since the 1970s in southern Europe, Latin America, & Eastern Europe that have in common the recent demise of previous dictatorships, & the recovery of a democracy that was never really consolidated in their historical past. New democracies create a hybrid with authoritarian legacies of the past, under the conditions of an economic crisis that accentuates situations of extreme & growing social inequalities. They take peculiar institutional shapes that put more emphasis on delegation than on representation. Thus, consolidation is more difficult than the actual transition; the specific roles of leadership & political craftsmanship are discussed. 1 Photograph. AA

Este fin de siglo registra una de las epocas de mayor crecimiento democratico, y tambien de mayor crisis economica y social, en la historia de los paises de America Latina. La entrada de la region latinoamericana en el circuito internacional de la democratizacion, en la decada de los 80, podria ser tomada como indicio de que estaria preparada, en los anos 90 que se inician, para atravesar los umbrales de la modernidad, tesis que se cuestiona en el presente trabajo