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<journal-meta>
<journal-id>1665-8574</journal-id>
<journal-title><![CDATA[Latinoamérica. Revista de estudios Latinoamericanos]]></journal-title>
<abbrev-journal-title><![CDATA[Latinoamérica]]></abbrev-journal-title>
<issn>1665-8574</issn>
<publisher>
<publisher-name><![CDATA[Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Centro de Investigaciones sobre América Latina y el Caribe]]></publisher-name>
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<article-meta>
<article-id>S1665-85742007000200131</article-id>
<title-group>
<article-title xml:lang="es"><![CDATA[Reflexiones para una historia comparada de las democracias en Iberoamérica]]></article-title>
</title-group>
<contrib-group>
<contrib contrib-type="author">
<name>
<surname><![CDATA[Lizcano Fernández]]></surname>
<given-names><![CDATA[Francisco]]></given-names>
</name>
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</contrib>
</contrib-group>
<aff id="Af1">
<institution><![CDATA[,UAEM Centro de Investigación en Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades ]]></institution>
<addr-line><![CDATA[ ]]></addr-line>
<country>Mexico</country>
</aff>
<pub-date pub-type="pub">
<day>00</day>
<month>12</month>
<year>2007</year>
</pub-date>
<pub-date pub-type="epub">
<day>00</day>
<month>12</month>
<year>2007</year>
</pub-date>
<numero>45</numero>
<fpage>131</fpage>
<lpage>156</lpage>
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<copyright-year/>
<self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_arttext&amp;pid=S1665-85742007000200131&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_abstract&amp;pid=S1665-85742007000200131&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><self-uri xlink:href="http://www.scielo.org.mx/scielo.php?script=sci_pdf&amp;pid=S1665-85742007000200131&amp;lng=en&amp;nrm=iso"></self-uri><abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="es"><p><![CDATA[Resumen: En este artículo se propone una caracterización amplia de democracia, la cual pretende incluir los aspectos comunes de las experiencias democráticas que se han producido a lo largo y ancho de la historia de la humanidad. Antes de hacerlo, se enmarca dicho esfuerzo en una línea de investigación de largo aliento (la historia comparada de las democracias en Iberoamérica) y se definen algunos conceptos involucrados en la mencionada caracterización.]]></p></abstract>
<abstract abstract-type="short" xml:lang="en"><p><![CDATA[Abstract: In this article is proposed a wide characterization of democracy, which seeks to include the aspects common of the democratic experiences that have taken place to the long and wide of the humanity&#8217;s history. Before making it, this effort is framed in a line of investigation of long encouragement (the compared history of the democracies in Iberoamerica) and are defined some concepts involved in the mentioned characterization.]]></p></abstract>
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<kwd lng="es"><![CDATA[Democracia y poder]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Latin America]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Iberoamerica]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Politics]]></kwd>
<kwd lng="en"><![CDATA[Democracy and power]]></kwd>
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