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A review of Democracy in the Americas: Stopping the Pendulum, edited by Robert A. Pastor.
Susan Kaufman Purcell is vice-president for Latin American affairs at the Americas Society in New York.
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Recent studies of democracy in Latin America overlook the role of civil society as an agent of accountability.
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Long hailed as one of the region’s most vigorous democracies, this small Central American country has seen voters swing massively toward newcomers and away from the two traditionally dominant parties.