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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction: Presidentialism and Presidential Breakdowns in Latin America
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Comparative Perspectives
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Cases of Repeated Breakdown
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Presidential Breakdowns Restoring Democratic Order
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"A worrisome proportion of democratically elected presidents in Latin America fail to complete their terms in office. This collection represents a major advance in our understanding of contemporary democracy in the region. Contrary to journalistic interpretations, the authors demonstrate that presidential breakdown is driven more by executive-legislative relations than by popular protests - and also that recent presidential breakdowns are more likely to lead to the reequilibration of a democratic regime than to its demise. In combining creative theory-building with detailed coverage of recent political history, this volume is a major contribution to comparative presidentialism and to the study of Latin American democracy." - Timothy J. Power, University of Oxford
"The choice of the term presidential breakdown to conceptually describe the many early presidential exits in Latin America is right on target, as it accurately describes one of the most interesting phenomena in Latin American presidentialism, brilliantly treated by the authors. The detailed knowledge of these breakdown processes, presented from a comparative perspective, is one of the great attributes of this must-read book." - Manuel Alcántara, Universidad de Salamanca
About the authors
MARIANA LLANOS is a researcher at the German Institute for Global and Area Studies, Institute for Latin American Studies in Germany.
LEIV MARSTEINTREDET is a Ph.D. Research Fellow in the Department of Comparative Politics at the University of Bergen, Norway.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Presidential Breakdowns in Latin America
Book Subtitle: Causes and Outcomes of Executive Instability in Developing Democracies
Editors: Mariana Llanos, Leiv Marsteintredet
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230105812
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan New York
eBook Packages: Palgrave Social Sciences Collection, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: Palgrave Macmillan, a division of Nature America Inc. 2010
Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-230-61819-0Published: 14 April 2010
eBook ISBN: 978-0-230-10581-2Published: 01 March 2010
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XVII, 266
Topics: Latin American Culture, Latin American Politics, Ethnicity Studies, Democracy, Area Studies, International Relations