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The final chapter presents a series of time-related hypotheses that capture the evolution of the state-creation and regime-formation processes of the United States, Peru, Chile, and Argentina from the colonial period to the present. It concludes with a brief analysis of the future of democracy.
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Scott Mainwaring and Aníbal Pérez-Liñón, “Latin American Democratization since 1978,” in Frances Hagopian and Scott P. Mainwaring, eds., The Third Wave of Democratization in Latin America (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005), 21.
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Ibid., 25 and 30.
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Scott Mainwaring and Frances Hagopian, “Introduction: The Third Wave of Democratization in Latin America,” in Hagopian and Mainwaring, eds., The Third Wave of Democratization in Latin America in Frances Hagopian and Scott P. Mainwaring, eds., The Third Wave of Democratization in Latin America (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2005), 5.
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One of the reviewers of the manuscript suggested that the term hypothesis be replaced with the terms “lessons learned,” because the hypotheses presented throughout the book have not been tested. This writer begs to differ as to what a hypothesis is. A hypothesis is: “A supposition or proposed explanation made on the basis of limited evidence as a starting point for further investigation.” The clear objective of this study is to present arguments based on the study of a limited number of cases with the expectation that subsequent studies will be conducted to test the validity of the proposed hypotheses.
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The fact that the US government never used the armed forces to prevent the rise of a radical political party does not mean that it did not rely on other means to achieve said goal.
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Philippe Schmitter and Terry Karl, “What Democracy Is … and is Not,” Journal of Democracy (Summer 1991): 10.
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See Alex Roberto Hybel, The Challenges of Creating Democracies in the Americas (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2019).
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Hybel, Alex Robert. 2019. The Challenges of Creating Democracies in the Americas: A Comparative Analysis of the United States, Colombia, Venezuela, Costa Rica, Guatemala and Mexico. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.
Schmitter, Philippe, and Terry Karl. 1991. What Democracy Is … and Is Not. Journal of Democracy 2 (Summer): 75–88. Print.
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Hybel, A.R. (2020). An Exploratory Theory of State Creation and Democratization in the United States, Chile, Argentina, and Peru. In: The Making of Flawed Democracies in the Americas. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-21178-3_6
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