Fujimori's Coup and the Breakdown of Democracy in Latin America (Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies)
Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press
Published: January 2004
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 379
ISBN-13: 9780268031718
Subjects: American history: postwar, from c 1945 -; Political structures: democracy; Revolutions & coups; c 1990 to c 2000; Political Science; History - General History; Politics/International Relations; Latin America - South America; Political Ideologies - Democracy; 1980-; Democracy; Fujimori, Alberto; Latin America; Peru; Politics and government
Description: This text explores why and how democracy broke down in Peru in 1992. The author's argument is that institutional factors - especially the absence of a legislative majority - were crucial to the collapse of democracy in Peru during and before this period and throughout Latin America since the 1960s.