%0 Conference Paper %1 citeulike:345923 %A Hooper, A. L. A. N. %B Political Studies Association-UK 50th Annual Conference %D 2000 %K democracy huntington latinamerica %T The Crisis of Democracy. What crisis? What democracy? The case of Brazil or saving the world by-and for-Uncle Sam. %U http://www.psa.ac.uk/cps/2000/Hooper%20Alan.pdf %X During the 1990s it became clear that democracy's global extension had not brought a matching degree of popular affection. In this paper I seek to explain this phenomenon by exploring the process of democratisation that began in Brazil in the mid-1970s. I argue that disenchantment was the predictable outcome of the mode of transition advocated by S.P. Huntington and by the 'transitologists' whose perspective emerged from the response to the mid-seventies 'crisis of democracy'. I argue that to the enfeebled citizenship which this produced was added a demobilisation of the class politics which had emerged in Brazil around the PT. With the democratising energies of liberalism and socialism curtailed I suggest that we may have to look to a new community-populist-politics if we are to go beyond the restricted options that Sam Huntington recommended in his 1988 plan to 'save the world'.

@inproceedings{citeulike:345923, abstract = {During the 1990s it became clear that democracy's global extension had not brought a matching degree of popular affection. In this paper I seek to explain this phenomenon by exploring the process of democratisation that began in Brazil in the mid-1970s. I argue that disenchantment was the predictable outcome of the mode of transition advocated by S.P. Huntington and by the 'transitologists' whose perspective emerged from the response to the mid-seventies 'crisis of democracy'. I argue that to the enfeebled citizenship which this produced was added a demobilisation of the class politics which had emerged in Brazil around the PT. With the democratising energies of liberalism and socialism curtailed I suggest that we may have to look to a new community-populist-politics if we are to go beyond the restricted options that Sam Huntington recommended in his 1988 plan to 'save the world'.}, added-at = {2007-04-06T10:50:16.000+0200}, author = {Hooper, A. L. A. N.}, biburl = {https://www.bibsonomy.org/bibtex/24ab50eae8aa7465d9ad45298d0373eac/mhermans}, booktitle = {Political Studies Association-UK 50th Annual Conference}, citeulike-article-id = {345923}, interhash = {5298baee47ab6299896586c535d42735}, intrahash = {4ab50eae8aa7465d9ad45298d0373eac}, keywords = {democracy huntington latinamerica}, month = {April}, priority = {2}, timestamp = {2007-04-06T10:50:18.000+0200}, title = {The Crisis of Democracy. What crisis? What democracy? The case of Brazil or saving the world by-and for-Uncle Sam.}, url = {http://www.psa.ac.uk/cps/2000/Hooper%20Alan.pdf}, year = 2000 }