ETA institutionalization issue in non-democratic countries: comparative analisis of Panama and Nicaragua
Keywords:
autonomization, ethnic territorial autonomies, Latin America, comparative politicsAbstract
Traditionally the process of autonomization and ethnic territorial autonomies (ETA) are studied through the prism of democracy and democratization. European autonomies may represent a classic example of ETAs. However, there are cases of ETAs’ institutionalization in non-Western and non-democratic countries. That leads to a question – is institutionalization necessarily related to the functioning of democracy? This article presents a comparative research on strategies choices of the main actors of the autonomy institutionalization process in Panama and Nicaragua, where (according to the Polity index) ETA institutionalization process took place under the non-democratic regimeDOI: 10.17072/2218-1067-2016-4-134-149References
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