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Article: Elections Before Democracy: The History of Elections in Europe and Latin America.(Review)
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- The Historian
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- January 1, 2000
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Elections Before Democracy: The History of Elections in Europe and Latin America. Edited by Eduardo Posada Carbo. (London and New York: Macmillan and St. Martin's Press in association with the Institute of Latin American Studies, 1996. Pp. vii, 285. $69.95.)
This collection of essays seeks to move us beyond the common-sense view that elections in history represent an ever upward sweep of enfranchisement and democratic legitimation, an integral set of institutions in a teleology from tradition to modernity, from competing patron-client localisms to more transcendant nationalisms, from ignorant voting populations to ever-more rational electorates. These essays call ...