Scenarios of democracy and transition. Transitions: Brazil / Mará d'Alva Kinzo -- Transitions: Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Uruguay / Marcelo Cavarozzi -- Reforms: Mexico and Colombia / Laurence Whitehead -- Foundations: Central America / Edelberto Torres-Rivas -- Crisis and regression : Ecuador, Paraguay, Peru, and Venezuela / Heinz R. Sonntag -- Democracy and the (re)construction of political society. Social dimensions : ethnicity / Rodolfo Stavenhagen -- Reconciliation / Edward Newman -- The new socio-political matrix / Manuel Antonio Garretón M. -- The transformation of political culture / Amparo Menéndez-Carrión -- The international dimension of democratization and human rights in Latin America / Ellen L. Lutz and Kathryn Sikkink.