The culmination of a major survey, this new study attempts for the first time to make "the definition of democracy" in Latin America visible, and thus able to be interpreted.

Roderic Ai Camp is McKenna Professor of the Pacific Rim at Claremont McKenna College in California. The author of more than twenty books on Mexico, his most recent publications include Politics in Mexico: The Decline of Authoritarianism and Crossing Swords: Politics and Religion in Mexico. He is the recipient of numerous grants and fellowships, including those from the Fulbright Foundation, Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars, Smithsonian Institution, and the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, which supported the research for this project.