Performance of democracy in Latin America: the pressure of social dimension.

Authors

  • Rosana Soares Campos Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (UFSM)
  • Rachel Loureiro Andreta Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (UFSM).
  • Christiane Senhorinha Soares Campos Universidade Federal do Sergipe (UFS).
  • Dejalma Cremonese Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (UFSM).

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5902/2236672521592

Keywords:

democracy, Latin America, social dimension, welfare policies, democratic performance

Abstract

The objective of this paper is to analyze democracy in Latin America through social dimension, from the data bank of IDD-LAT in two aspects: performance of countries and behavior of indicators that make up the scale. In this review, the social dimension of democracy is understood by four performance indicators: health, education, unemployment and poverty. The analysis was conducted from a descriptive study with data from the social dimension of IDD-LAT and revealed important considerations for democratic development: 1) as the need to promote equal conditions through employment, income and access to education and health; 2) countries offering its population a set of welfare policies are more developed democratically and 3) the social dimension has shown that improving indicators alone is not enough to democratic performance, when, of course, one thinks of democracy as a way of living in society from political, social, cultural and economic.

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Author Biographies

Rosana Soares Campos, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (UFSM)

Doutora em Ciência Política pela Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS); Professora do Departamento de Ciências Sociais e do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências Sociais da Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (UFSM), Santa Maria (RS)

Rachel Loureiro Andreta, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (UFSM).

Mestranda do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências Sociais da Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (UFSM).

Christiane Senhorinha Soares Campos, Universidade Federal do Sergipe (UFS).

Doutora em Geografia pela Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS); Professora do Departamento de Economia da Universidade Federal do Sergipe (UFS).

Dejalma Cremonese, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (UFSM).

Doutor em Ciência Política pela Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul (UFRGS); Professor do Departamento de Ciências Sociais e do Programa de Pós-Graduação em Ciências Sociais da Universidade Federal de Santa Maria (UFSM)

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Published

2015-12-29

How to Cite

Campos, R. S., Andreta, R. L., Campos, C. S. S., & Cremonese, D. (2015). Performance of democracy in Latin America: the pressure of social dimension. Século XXI: Journal of Social Sciences, 5(2), 137–166. https://doi.org/10.5902/2236672521592

Issue

Vol. 5 No. 2 (2015): Dossier Democracy, Inequalities and Political Culture in Latin America

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