"Democracy and Economic Crisis: The Latin American Experi- ence" Karen L. Remmer, in World Politics (April 1990), 17 Ivy Lane, Princeton. N.J. 08544.

Nobody ever seems to say anything about Latin America's new democracies without attaching warning words like "fragile," "fledgling," or "struggling." The assump- tion among academics and journalists ap- pears to be that the newly elected leaders of Brazil, Chile, and other nations will find it much harder t...