About | HeinOnline Law Journal Library | HeinOnline Law Journal Library | HeinOnline
LOG IN
LOG IN

31 Colum. J. Transnat'l L. 1 (1993-1994)
Nine Years of Transition to Democracy in Argentina: Partial Failure or Qualified Success

handle is hein.journals/cjtl31 and id is 9 raw text is: Articles Nine Years of Transition to Democracy in Argentina: Partial Failure or Qualified Success? ALEJANDRO M. GARRO I. INTRODUCTION The last decade witnessed a wave of democratization throughout most of Latin America and Eastern Europe. The process of change from dictatorship to democracy, generally referred to as a transition to democracy, is said to have brought about a profound re-evaluation of the general and formal principles that public officials use, both to resolve disputes between citizens and to justify the domestic use of force.1 To judge by the liberal economic programs that many Latin American and Eastern European countries have embraced, this process of transition has also meant a reassessment of the traditional role of the State in economic development. Like many Eastern European nations, some countries of Latin America such as Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay have important rural, agricultural * Lecturer in Law, Columbia University School of Law; J.D., National University of La Plata (Argentina), 1975; L.L.M., Louisiana State University, 1979; J.S.D., Columbia University, 1990. This Article is based on remarks prepared for the Comparative Law Section Program of the American Association of Law Schools on How to Reconstruct a Legal System: Transition from Dictatorship to Democracy, San Antonio, January 5, 1992. I would like to thank Professors Edith Friedler and Friedrich Juenger for their encourage- ment, Professors Owen Fiss and Carlos Nino for their thoughtful comments to an earlier manuscript. I am also grateful to my Argentine colleagues Alejandro D. Carri6, Alberto F. Garay and Emilio Mignone for helping me to think through many of the issues discussed in this Article. Errors and misconceptions of fact, judgment and taste are of course mine. 1. For a characterization of the different processes of transitions to democracy, see PoLncs IN DEVELOPING COuNTRiEs: COMPARING EXPERIENCES WITH DEMOCRACY (Larry Jay Diamond et al. eds., 1990); TRANSIONS FROM AUTHORITARIAN RULE (Guillermo O'Donnell et al. eds., 1986); JuAN J. LiNz, THE BREAKDOWN OF DEMOCRATIC REGIumS: CRISIS, BREAKDOWN, AND REEQUILIBRATION (1978).

What Is HeinOnline?

HeinOnline is a subscription-based resource containing thousands of academic and legal journals from inception; complete coverage of government documents such as U.S. Statutes at Large, U.S. Code, Federal Register, Code of Federal Regulations, U.S. Reports, and much more. Documents are image-based, fully searchable PDFs with the authority of print combined with the accessibility of a user-friendly and powerful database. For more information, request a quote or trial for your organization below.



Short-term subscription options include 24 hours, 48 hours, or 1 week to HeinOnline.

Purchase Access

Contact us for annual subscription options:

Contact Us

Already a HeinOnline Subscriber?

Log In

profiles profiles most