Author: John A. Booth | Journal of Democracy

John A. Booth is Regents Professor of Political Science at the University of North Texas and Americas-Barometer country-team director for Nicaragua. He is coauthor (with Mitchell A. Seligson) of The Legitimacy Puzzle in Latin America: Democracy and Political Support in Eight Nations (2009).

April 2010, Volume 21, Issue 2

Trouble in Central America: Crime, Hard Times, and Discontent

Mitchell A. Seligson
John A. Booth

Amid a climate of rising crime and insecurity as well as economic uncertainty produced by the global downturn, can the study of public opinion and attitudes reveal which Central American countries are most at risk of democratic reversals?