The Failure of Presidential Democracy
Subtitle: The Case of Latin America
Contributors: Juan J. Linz (Editor); Arturo Valenzuela (Editor)
Publisher: The Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: February 1, 1994
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 376
ISBN-13: 9780801847844
Subjects: Political structures: democracy; Representative government and; Latin America - General; Governmental Structures; Politics / Current Events; Presidents; Politics/International Relations; Central America; South America; Political Ideologies - Democracy; Government - International; Political Science / Foreign Legal Systems; Democracy; Cabinet system; Latin America
First sentence: IN RECENT DECADES renewed efforts have been made to study and understand the variety of political democracies, but most of those analyses have focused on the patterns of political conflict and more specifically on party systems and coalition formation, in contrast to the attention of many classical writers to institutional arrangements.