On Democratic Politics

The German-born, Chilean author Norbert Lechner remains one of Latin America’s most prominent and creative social scientists. His work is indebted to the intense debates regarding theories of modernization, developmentalism, and dependence that took place in Latin American intellectual and political...

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description The German-born, Chilean author Norbert Lechner remains one of Latin America’s most prominent and creative social scientists. His work is indebted to the intense debates regarding theories of modernization, developmentalism, and dependence that took place in Latin American intellectual and political circles. These theoretical sources were present as a cognitive horizon in his essential writings, and many of the central concerns that enlivened his oeuvre arose from his intellectual immersion in these deliberations. If the confrontations with the revolutionary discourses of the 1960s informed his vision of the Latin American state, his experience with authoritarianism led him to pose a question that would become central to all his career: What does it mean to do politics, and what does it mean to do democratic politics? This anthology, which includes the first translations into English of three of his most outstanding works can guide our readers, like Ariadne’s thread, through the intellectual output of this great thinker. It should also be said that these writings contain some of the most intellectually stimulating approaches to political sociology written in Latin America. Published between the 1980s and the first decade of the 2000s, the texts cover a span of more than thirty years during which the author developed a very personal vision as he sought to understand politics in a different way.
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1322432025-03-24T00:12:55Z On Democratic Politics Bobes, Velia Cecilia Valdés-Ugalde, Francisco Furio, Victoria Ortega-Breña, Mariana Dictatorship; Allende; South America; Democracy; Chile The German-born, Chilean author Norbert Lechner remains one of Latin America’s most prominent and creative social scientists. His work is indebted to the intense debates regarding theories of modernization, developmentalism, and dependence that took place in Latin American intellectual and political circles. These theoretical sources were present as a cognitive horizon in his essential writings, and many of the central concerns that enlivened his oeuvre arose from his intellectual immersion in these deliberations. If the confrontations with the revolutionary discourses of the 1960s informed his vision of the Latin American state, his experience with authoritarianism led him to pose a question that would become central to all his career: What does it mean to do politics, and what does it mean to do democratic politics? This anthology, which includes the first translations into English of three of his most outstanding works can guide our readers, like Ariadne’s thread, through the intellectual output of this great thinker. It should also be said that these writings contain some of the most intellectually stimulating approaches to political sociology written in Latin America. Published between the 1980s and the first decade of the 2000s, the texts cover a span of more than thirty years during which the author developed a very personal vision as he sought to understand politics in a different way. 2024-01-03T04:05:56Z 2024-01-03T04:05:56Z 2024-01-02T12:43:42Z 2023 book OCN: 1416153665 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/86359 9781951634377 9781951634391 9781951634407 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/132243 eng open access image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/86359/1/on-democratic-politics.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/86359/1/on-democratic-politics.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/86359/1/on-democratic-politics.pdf https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/86359/1/on-democratic-politics.pdf Latin America Research Commons 10.25154/book12 10.25154/book12 3846a1b6-fbd7-4d46-af02-ec09ff94fad1 9781951634377 9781951634391 9781951634407 353 Pittsburgh open access
spellingShingle Dictatorship; Allende; South America; Democracy; Chile
On Democratic Politics
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topic Dictatorship; Allende; South America; Democracy; Chile
topic_facet Dictatorship; Allende; South America; Democracy; Chile
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