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Insurgency, Political Violence, and Democracy in Latin America

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Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 March 2020

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Nicolás M. Somma*
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Nicolás M. Somma is an associate professor of sociology at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile and associate researcher at the Center for Social Conflict and Cohesion Studies (COES, grant CONICYT/FONDAP/15130009).
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Once upon a time, pluralist (Dahl 1961) and modernization theories (Lipset 1959) described liberal democracy as a political regime that tended to exclude violence, insurgency, and corruption. A few decades later, Francis Fukuyama (1992) argued that in the long run, liberal democracy would triumph over other political alternatives, and about the same time Samuel Huntington (1991) revealed a massive wave of democratization (or redemocratization) in different parts of the world.

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Latin American Politics and Society , Volume 62 , Issue 2 , May 2020 , pp. 137 - 145
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© University of Miami 2020

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Conflict of interest: I (Nicolás M. Somma) declare none.

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