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This is the introduction Max Cameron and I wrote to this new issue of LASA Forum. We propose a research agenda that aims at going beyond the democratic backsliding debate, looking at long-term dynamics that shaped Latin American republics of today: forum.lasaweb.org/articles/56-...

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Revolution and Republic: Oligarchic Regimes and Struggles for Citizenship - 56:4 - LASA Forum The LASA 2026 Call for Papers invoked the republican tradition and its revolutionary implications as a way to foreground the underappreciated contributions of Latin America and the Caribbean to global transformations that have occurred over several centuries. These transformations, which continue to shape the contemporary world, entail what Guillermo O’Donnell (1998, 113) called an “uneasy synthesis” of republican, liberal, and democratic thought and action. Although each taps into pre-modern undercurrents, springing from ancient Greek, republican Roman, and medieval sources, they nonetheless crystallized in the institutions and practices that emerged out of the Glorious Revolution, the American Revolution, the French Revolution, the Haitian Revolution, the insurrection of Tupac Amaru II, and Hispanic-American struggles for independence. https://forum.lasaweb.org/articles/56-4/revolution-and-republic-oligarchic-regimes-and-struggles-for-citizenship/