Author: Timothy R. Scully | Journal of Democracy

Timothy R. Scully is professor of political science and fellow of the Kellogg Institute for International Studies at the University of Notre Dame. He is coeditor, with Scott Mainwaring, of Christian Democracy in Latin America: Electoral Competition and Regime Conflicts (2003).

July 2008, Volume 19, Issue 3

Latin America: Eight Lessons for Governance

Scott Mainwaring
Timothy R. Scully

Latin America’s recent experience shows that effective democratic governance is difficult to achieve and depends on many factors, some of them context-specific. Nonetheless, it is possible to draw some general lessons.