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Economic Development Strategies and the Evolution of Violence in Latin America pp 213–250Cite as

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Economic Exclusion and the Shifting Patterns of Violence in Argentina and Brazil

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As of 2012, the prospects for democracy 1 and peace in Latin America remain uncertain. Some countries suffer from serious political conflicts that threaten the integrity of the state and/or the regime. Mexico’s vicious drug war, Ecuador and Bolivia’s precarious balancing of procedural democratic forms with growing indigenous mobilization, Colombia’s virtual civil war, and Venezuela’s toxic polarization all stand as critical examples of the region’s democratic frailties. By contrast, Argentina and Brazil stand out as relatively positive cases of democracy and political stability, despite appearing earlier as among the least likely to succeed in the third wave of democratization. Disastrous economic performance and incompetent governance into the early 1990s raised doubts about the longevity of their respective democratic experiments and the possibility of containing political violence. Yet, as of 2012, the two countries are among the more stable in the region, with Brazil tagged as a rising global power.

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Kingstone, P. (2012). Economic Exclusion and the Shifting Patterns of Violence in Argentina and Brazil. In: Ascher, W., Mirovitskaya, N. (eds) Economic Development Strategies and the Evolution of Violence in Latin America. Politics, Economics, and Inclusive Development. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137272690_8

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