 Elisabeth
Jay Friedman and Kathryn Hochstetler, Assessing the Third Transition in
Latin American Democratization: Representational Regimes and Civil Society
in Argentina and Brazil Recent
political and economic transitions in Latin America have shaped a third
transition in the nature of civil society and democratic representation.
The conceptual territory of democratic representational regimes can be
mapped out in four theoretical patterns of state-society relations:
adversarial, delegative, deliberative, and cooptive. A comparison of
representational regimes in state-society relations in Argentina and
Brazil shows a shift in civil society towards organization in
nongovernmental organizations, in addition to social movements. Despite
this common characteristic, the different emerging representational
regimes in these two countries carry different implications for the
quality of democracy. |