Uneven States, Unequal Societies, and Democracy’s Unfulfilled Promises: Citizenship Rights in Chile and Contemporary Latin America

IF 1.7 2区社会学 Q1 AREA STUDIES

Latin American Politics and Society Pub Date : 2023-05-01 DOI:10.1017/lap.2022.59

J. Luna, Rodrigo M. Medel

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Abstract

ABSTRACT In contemporary Latin America, deep-seated social discontent with political elites and institutions has been, paradoxically, the counterpart of democratic stability and resilience. This paradox suggests that scholarly assessments of democracy are, at least partially, at odds with citizens’ own views of democracy. This article thus develops a framework to describe citizens’ everyday experience with civil, political, and social entitlements associated with democracy. It introduces the framework by analyzing the structural underpinnings of democratic discontent in Chile and then applying it to the analysis of perceived citizenship entitlements in 18 countries, using the AmericasBarometer data. Significant variance is observed across time and both across and within countries. The descriptive findings also imply that only a (declining) minority of Latin American citizens feel fully entitled to civil, political, and social citizenship rights. We advocate the need to bring the demand side of democracy back to the analysis of democratic shortcomings and crises.

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不平等的国家、不平等的社会和民主未兑现的承诺：智利和当代拉丁美洲的公民权利

在当代拉丁美洲，对政治精英和制度的根深蒂固的社会不满一直是民主稳定和弹性的对立面，这是自相矛盾的。这一悖论表明，对民主的学术评估，至少在一定程度上，与公民自己对民主的看法不一致。因此，本文发展了一个框架来描述公民与民主相关的公民、政治和社会权利的日常体验。它通过分析智利民主不满的结构性基础来引入该框架，然后使用美国晴雨表数据将其应用于对18个国家的感知公民权利的分析。在不同的时间、国家之间和国家内部都观察到显著的差异。描述性调查结果还表明，只有(不断下降的)少数拉丁美洲公民认为自己完全有权享有公民、政治和社会公民权利。我们主张有必要把民主的需求方重新纳入对民主缺点和危机的分析。

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期刊介绍： Latin American Politics and Society publishes the highest-quality original social science scholarship on Latin America. The Editorial Board, comprising leading U.S., Latin American, and European scholars, is dedicated to challenging prevailing orthodoxies and promoting innovative theoretical and methodological perspectives on the states, societies, economies, and international relations of the Americas in a globalizing world.