Wednesday, November 08, 2006

... when many other regions have progressed on to get branded as ‘First World’!

And these developments, in part, are the result of a phenomenon that has been observed for some years by specialists and polling organizations in Latin America: As the elected governments became more formally democratic, citizens expressed an increasing disillusionment with the way democracy functions and “lack of faith” in the democratic institutions. They have sought to construct democratic systems based on popular participation rather than elite and foreign domination.

A persuasive explanation for the decline of faith in existing democratic institutions has been offered by Argentine political scientist Atilio Boron, who observed that the new wave of democratization in Latin America coincided with externally mandated economic “reforms” that undermine effective democracy.

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