Lexington Books
Pages: 212
Trim: 6¼ x 9⅜
978-1-4985-1527-6 • Hardback • December 2015 • $103.00 • (£79.00)
978-1-4985-1528-3 • eBook • December 2015 • $97.50 • (£75.00)
Claire Wright is a lecturer at the Universidad Autónoma de Nuevo León.
Chapter 1 The Emergency Politics Concept
Chapter 2 Regimes of Exception in Latin America
Chapter 3 Peru: The Repressive Paradigm
Chapter 4 Bolivia: The Disaster Paradigm
Chapter 5 Ecuador: The Administrative Paradigm
Chapter 6 Lessons Learned
Emergency Politics in the Third Wave of Democracy is a must-read for scholars interested in authoritarian legacies and democratization processes in Latin America. In this unique volume, Claire Wright offers an in-depth analysis of the different paths taken by regimes of exception in Bolivia, Ecuador, and Peru in the post-transition period, highlighting the ways in which they are at odds with democratic governability. Importantly, she also points to significant attempts to democratize these mechanisms in a brilliant way and offers a very useful series of best practices and recommendations.
— Manuel Alcántara Sáez, Universidad de Salamanca
An essential study for understanding the politics of emergency and regimes of exception in the 21st century. This important and scholarly work offers a rich conceptual discussion on the terminology and its distinctions, and explores through three Latin American case studies how emergency politics continue to be used with surprising frequency in a region regarded as in a phase of democratic consolidation. The book is an alert for students of politics generally to look more deeply at when and why emergency and exceptional measures are used in contemporary politics.
— Jenny Pearce, University of Bradford
This insightful volume expands our understanding of democracy and its discontents in the 21st century. Complementing legal analysis with historical and social context, Emergency Politics extends the framework of securitization from military threat to development and disasters. It is a valuable addition to an understudied dimension of Latin American political institutions, with global reach and policy relevance.
— Alison Brysk, University of California, Santa Barbara