A Study On The Democratic Consolidation Of Emerging South American Democratic Countries

As a democratic country of consolidation, apart from a country with normal operation, italso needs an energetic civil society and a relative autonomic political society, and all citizensand organizations of the country must obey its law unconditionally, which also provideguarantee for the former, at the same time there must exist bureaucracies and an economicsociety which are available resources for the democratic government to utilize. However, theemerging democratic countries in South America are transformed from the authoritarianism ofofficial autocracy, when there have always been historical problems accompanies, so thereexist many obstacles during the path of consolidating democratic politics. Within a longperiod after the transformation, government behavers still applied non-democratic process toachieve their political purposes, while public opinions also have sought for non-democraticprocedures or systems to solve economic hardships or other social problems, and did not getused to deal with conflicts within the scope of democratic rules, procedures and systemsprovided by laws, all of which leaves lass consolidation of democracy for emergingdemocratic countries of South America. Therefore, this article studies the cases of Brazil,Argentina, and Uruguay, proceeding with the necessity of transformation to illustrate thatdemocratic transformation is the only correct option for authoritarian South Americancountries after1970s. This article also analyses the labile factors in their democratic regime,namely the deficiencies existing in their democratic system operation, then finally exploringthe basic approach that are generally suitable for the democratic consolidation of emergingdemocratic countries.