Latin America's smiling mask

Journal of Democracy

Volumn 8, Issue 3, 1997, Pages

  Lagos, Marta ^a,b  

^a Mkt and Opinion Res International   (Chile)

^b Ctro de Estud de la Realidad C   (Chile)

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EID: 1342299061     PISSN: 10455736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1353/jod.1997.0042     Document Type: Article

References (14)

1. Octavio Paz, The Labyrinth of Solitude: Life and Thought in Mexico, trans. Lysander Kemp (New York: Grove, 1960, orig. publ. 1950), 23-24.
2. Paz, Labyrinth of Solitude, 29.
3. Gabriel A. Almond and Sidney Verba, The Civic Culture: Political Attitudes and Democracy in Five Nations (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1963).
4. The Latinobarómetro is an annual national-sample survey that follows the pattern of the Eurobarometer, conducted since 1973. The first wave, covering eight countries, came in 1995. The Latinobarómetro was conducted by the Corporación Latinobarómetro in Spain and every Latin American country except Cuba and the Dominican Republic-that is to say, Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, El Salvador, Guatemala, Honduras, Mexico, Nicaragua, Panama, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuela. The total number of interviews-including 2,481 in Spain - was 20,652. Most of the financing came from the European Union through the Centro de Investigación, Promoción y Cooperación Internacional (CIPIE) in Madrid. Other financing came from the United Nations Development Programme and independent institutions.
5. Ronald Inglehart, Culture Shift in Advanced Industrial Society (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1989), 32.
6. Cf. Seymour Martin Lipset, American Exceptionalism: A Double-Edged Sword (New York: W.W. Norton, 1996), 17.
7. Max Weber, Methodologische Schriften (Berlin: Fischer Verlag, 1968), 289.
8. Phillip E. Converse, "Change in the American Electorate," in Angus Campbell and Phillip E. Converse, eds., The Human Meaning of Social Change (New York: Russell Sage, 1972), 237-337.
9. Juan J. Linz and Alfred Stepan, Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation: Southern Europe, South America, and Post-Communist Europe (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996), 287.
10. Ibid., 226.
11. Max Kaase and Kenneth Newton, eds., Beliefs in Government (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1995), 61.
12. Manuel Antonio Garretón, La posibilidad democrática en Chile (Santiago: Flacso, Cuaderno de Difusión, 1989). A four-year cross-sectional survey from the early 1990s shows that Chileans are well aware of the elements that make up the "authoritarian legacy" in their country. See Manuel Antonio Garretón, Marta Lagos, and Roberto Méndez, Los Chilenos y la democracia: La opinión pública, 1991-1994. Informe 1994 y síntesis del estudio (Santiago: Ediciones Participa, 1996).
13. Manuel Antonio Garretón, La posibilidad democrática en Chile (Santiago: Flacso, Cuaderno de Difusión, 1989). A four-year cross-sectional survey from the early 1990s shows that Chileans are well aware of the elements that make up the "authoritarian legacy" in their country. See Manuel Antonio Garretón, Marta Lagos, and Roberto Méndez, Los Chilenos y la democracia: La opinión pública, 1991-1994. Informe 1994 y síntesis del estudio (Santiago: Ediciones Participa, 1996).
14. Other data from the same survey, which are omitted for lack of space, show that people's expectations for their children are highly positive.