Table of Contents:
  • Democracy through Latin American lenses: an appraisal / Roderic Ai Camp
  • Democracy and mass belief systems in Latin America / Alejandro Moreno
  • Does trust matter? Interpersonal trust and democratic values in Chile, Costa Rica, and Mexico / Timothy J. Power and Mary A. Clark
  • Costa Rica: portrait of an established democracy / Mary A. Clark
  • Costa Rican exceptionalism: why the Ticos are different / Mitchell A. Seligson
  • Transition to democracy: a Mexican perspective / Matthew T. Kenny
  • - Legacies of authoritarianism: political attitudes in Chile and Mexico / Joseph L. Klesner
  • Color and democracy in Latin American / Miguel Basáñez and Pablo Parás
  • Mexico and the United States: two distinct political cultures? / Frederick C. Turner and Carlos A. Elordi
  • A distinctive view of the role of the state in service provision? / Kenneth M. Coleman
  • Chilean citizens and Chilean democracy: the management of fear, division, and alienation / Louis W. Goodman
  • Polls, political culture, and democracy: a heretical historical look / Alan Knight.