We praise democracy most of the time, but we practice it as if we had accepted every argument against it, as if we believed it must depress the level of culture and of public life
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Carlos FormentCarlos Forment is director of the Centro de Investigación y Documentación de la Vida Pública in Buenos Aires, Argentina. He is the author of Democracy In Latin America, 1760-1900 (University of Chicago Press, 2003). Recent articlesThe democratic dribble: Buenos Aires's politics of football The passionate loyalty of "Portenos" for their city's soccer clubs is more than a matter of familial and local tradition, says Carlos Forment: amid social and economic crisis it becomes a source of the remaking of civic identity. |
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