[Description in English]
Latin America and the Caribbean: Democratic Governability
Politics, Citizenship, Exclusion, Memory and Demography
The late 1970s saw the beginning of the third wave of democracy. Latin America broke the political cycle that from 1945-1978 produced frequent oscillations between democratic and authoritarian regimes. Some countries experienced democratic processes for the first time. Despite this historic milestone, threats to democratic consolidation still persist. States must confront problems of corruption, the erosion of the rule of law, high levels of impunity, a lack of transparency in government actions, and high levels of unemployment, inequality, poverty and violence. This translates into increasing anti-political and anti-democratic feeling in the region. The need to generate public policies centered around the consolidation of democratic governability is one of the reasons why FLACSO is developing the project entitled "Governability and Democratic Coexistence in Latin America and the Caribbean", sponsored by the Spanish Agency for International Development Cooperation (AECID). This book is part of that project and brings together the contributions of the Independent Advisors to FLACSO. The authors contribute towards the generation of knowledge on democratic governability in an interdisciplinary approach, from the perspectives of politics, citizenship, exclusion, memory and demography.