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The article presents a conceptual framework to analyse historically specific patterns of democratic stabilization and pacification. In analysing socio-political destabilization and re-stabilization in Argentina and Ecuador since the late 1990s it is shown how a ‘de-idealized’ perspective on the democratic civil peace helps explain the viability of democratic regimes that systematically deviate from the ideal-type conditions for democratic survival that have been proposed in the literature.

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This article presents an alternative to the liberal concept of a ‘democratic civil peace’. The liberal understanding of democratic stabilization and pacification contrasts with the procedural quality and the material achievements of most, if not all, really existing democracies. South America is paradigmatic. Here, the legitimation of liberal democracy through both procedure and performance is weak and yet ‘third wave democracies’ have managed to survive even harsh economic and political crises.

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This page is a summary of: De-idealizing the democratic civil peace: on the political economy of democratic stabilization and pacification in Argentina and Ecuador, Democratization, September 2009, Taylor & Francis,
DOI: 10.1080/13510340903162143.
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