Public support for due process rights: The case of Guatemala

Journal of the Southwest

Volumn 45, Issue 4, 2003, Pages

  Seligson, Mitchell A ^a  

^a VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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2. and Abraham F. Lowenthal, "Battling the Undertow in Latin America," both in Consolidating Third Wave Democracies: Themes and Perspectives, ed. Larry Diamond, Marc F. Plattner, Yun-han Chu, and Hung-mao Tien (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997);
3. An excellent review of challenges to democratic consolidation is available in Juan J. Linz and Alfred Stepan, Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation: Southern Europe, South America and Post-Communist Europe (Baltimore, Md.: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1996).
4. For a focus entirely on Eastern Europe see Richard Rose, William Mishler, and Christian Haerpfer, Democracy and Its Alternatives: Understanding Post-Communist Societies (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998).
5. For recent information on the degree of democracy throughout the world, see the annual updates by Freedom House, http://freedomhouse.org/survey99/.
6. Adrian Karatnycky, "1999 Freedom House Survey: A Century of Progress," Journal of Democracy, 11, no. 1 (January 2000), 187-200.
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8. James W. Prothro and Charles M. Grigg, "Fundamental Principles of Democracy: Bases of Agreement and Disagreement," Journal of Politics 22, no. 2 (1960): 276-94.
9. For example, crime rates in South Africa and El Salvador are thought to be the highest in the world. See José Miguel Cruz, Alvaro Trigueros Argüello, and Francisco González, Los factores sociales y económicos asociados al crimen violento en El Salvador (Washington: World Bank, 1999).
10. United Nations, Global Report on Crime and Justice, ed. Graeme Newman (New York: Oxford University Press, 1999), 14.
11. Nancy Bermeo, Getting Mad or Going Mad: Citizen, Scarcity and the Breakdown of Democracy in Interwar Europe, Center for the Study of Democracy Working Papers (Irvine: University of California at Irvine, 1999), 1.
12. Martin Gilbert, The Second World War: A Complete History, rev. ed. (New York: Henry Holt and Company, 1991), 746.
13. This point is argued by Bob Altemeyer, The Authoritarian Specter (Cambridge: Harvard University Press, 1996), 91.
14. For a brilliant review of the various explanations of the Hitler phenomenon, see Ron Rosenbaum, Explaining Hitler (New York: Random House, 1998).
15. According to the United Nations Global Report on Crime, health statistics as a basis for measuring homicide significantly underreport the total homicide level. Health statistics data are based on the classification of deaths made by physicians rather than by the police. According to the UN comparison, health-based homicide rates average about half those of Interpol or UN statistics. See United Nations, Global Report on Crime and Justice, 12-13.
16. July 17, 1997, Pan American Health Organization press release ().
17. Alejandro Gaviria and Carmen Pagés, "Patterns of Crime Victimization in Latin America," Washington, D. C: Inter-American Development Bank Conference on Economic and Social Progress in Latin America, 1999. See Carta Economica, October 1998 (Guatemala, Centro de Investigaciones Económicas Nacionales, CIEN);
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19. Diaguóstico de la Violencia en Guatemala (Guatemala City: Centro de Investigaciones Económicas Nacionales, 1999).
20. CIEN, "Investigando la violencia en Guatemala: Algunas consideracioncs conceptuales y metodológicas." Guatemala City, June 1999.
21. For details on these and other related data, see Mitchell A. Seligson and Dinorah Azpuru, "Las dimensiones y el impacto politico de la dclincuencia en la población guatemalteca," in Luis Rosero, ed., Población del Istmo 2000: Familia, migración, violencia y medio ambiente (San José, Costa Rica: Centro Centroamericano de Población [CCP] de la Universidad de Costa Rica, 2001), 277-306.
22. For a global look at crime see Mark Findlay, The Globalisation of Crime: Understanding Transitional Relationships in Context (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999).
23. For a look at victimization, see Kenneth F. Ferraro, Fear of Crime: Interpreting Victimization Risk (Albany, NY: State University Press of New York, 1995).
24. Mitchell A. Seligson, "Democracy on Ice: The Multiple Paradoxes of Guatemala's Peace Process," in Advances and Setbacks in the Third Wave of Democratization in Latin America, edited by Francis Haggopian and Scott Mainwaring (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, forthcoming).
25. Robert W. Jackman, "Political Elites, Mass Politics, and Support for Democratic Principles," Journal of Politics 34, no. 3 (1972): 752-64.
26. See T. W. Adorno, D. J. Levinson, E. Frenkely-Brunswik, and Pv. N. Sanford, The Authoritarian Personality (New York: Harper and Row, 1950), and Altemeyer, Authoritarian Specter.
27. The classic articles arc Seymour Martin Lipset, "Democracy and Working-Class Authoritarianism," American Sociological Review, 24 (1959), 482-502;
28. and Seymour Martin Lipset, "Working-Class Authoritarianism: A Re-Evaluation," American Sociological Review, 30 (1965), 103-9.
29. A refutation is contained in Paul Dekker and Peter Ester, "Working-Class Authoritarianism: A Reexamination of the Lipset Thesis," European Journal of Political Research, 15 (1987), 395-415.
30. Mitchell A. Seligson, La cultura política de la democracia boliviana, así piensan los bolivianos, # 60 (La Paz, Bolivia: Encuestas y Estudios, 1999).
31. The survey was carried out by UNIMERon a national probability sample of 1,201 respondents. Details of the method and other findings are found in La Nación, October 23,1999, p. 1, and in the electronic edition, for that date.
32. See Mitchell A. Seligson, "Costa Rican Exceptionalism: Why the' Ticos' Are Different," in Citizen Views of Democracy in Latin America, ed. Roderic Ai Camp (Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh Press, 2001).
33. See, for example, Steven Finkel, Edward Muller, and Mitchell A. Seligson, "Economic Crisis, Incumbent Performance and Regime Support: A Comparison of Longitudinal Data from West Germany and Costa Rica," British Journal of Political Science 19 (July 1989): 329-51;