拉丁美洲民主政治的文化分析

拉美文化是印第安土著文化原体与欧洲天主教文化、非洲黑人文化等异质文化之间经过挑战—回答运动而形成的一种文化模式,它在以天主教文化为核心的同时,又具有其自身的特性,即边缘性和从属性、混合性、运动性、外源性。拉美文化的前述特征,决定了该地区民主政治的独特性——它模仿了新教文化下代议制民主的外表,却行天主教文化下委任制民主之实,纸面上的民主往往为事实上的独裁或集权所取代,这也正是该地区民主化进程曲折发展的根源之所在。

Democratic Politics in Latin America:A Cultural Perspective

The Latin American culture is a result from the so-called challenge-response movement among the indigenous culture,the European Catholic culture,and the African culture.It is of unique features although it takes the European Catholic culture as the core element.Thanks to the fact,the regional democratic politics is featured by a peculiar mixture of democracy and dictatorship.The authoritarian regime was allowed to be established and operate in the name of democracy.