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International election monitoring, sovereignty, and the Western hemisphere idea : the emergence of an international norm

Title
International election monitoring, sovereignty, and the Western hemisphere idea : the emergence of an international norm / Arturo Santa-Cruz.
ISBN
0415974437 (alk. paper)
Published
New York : Routledge, 2005.
Physical Description
xiii, 287 p. ; 24 cm.
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 27, 2006
Series
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 257-278) and index.
Contents
Introduction
Antecedents of IEM
The Western hemisphere's normative structure, IEM, and state sovereignty: The argument in brief
Plan of the book
On the meaning of sovereignty
Sovereignty as individual rationality and material interests
Sovereignty as argumentative rationality and constitutional structures
Transnational advocacy networks as interlocutors and sovereignty builders
Alternative explanations
Neoliberal institutionalism
Neoclassical realism
Summary
The Western hemisphere idea and the emergence of IEM
The Western hemisphere idea
The advent of the Cold War
The emergence of IEM
The appearance of non-OAS IEM
The convergence of IGOS and INGOS: the IEM tan consolidates
Inquiring into IEM: methodological considerations
Conclusions
Chile's 1988 plebiscite: the birth of the IEM network
On the WHI, the Cold War, and Chile's domestic structure
The 1988 plebiscite as an international event
The law group
The national democratic institute for
International affairs
Conclusions
Nicaragua's 1990 elections: the consolidation of the IEM network
Nicaragua's domestic structure
US policy toward Nicaragua and the Latin American response
The 1990 elections
The Carter Center
The Organization of American States
The United Nations
Conclusions
Mexico's 1994 elections: sovereignty redefined
Mexico's domestic structure
Mexico during the Salinas administration
The origins of election monitoring and the 1994 electoral reform
The 1994 elections
Alianza Cívica
The United Nations
The Carter Center
Conclusions
Peru's 2000 elections: democracy as an international affair
Peru's domestic structure before Fujimori: the last cycle
The advent of Fujimorism, or the decade of "Anti- politics"
Fujimori's competitive authoritarianism
Toward the 2000 elections
Conclusions
IEm in other settings and in IR theory
IEM in other settings
The argument revisited
Democratic peace theory and IEM
Recent approaches to.
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