Presidential breakdowns in Latin America
Subtitle: causes and outcomes of executive instability in developing democracies
By: edited by Mariana Llanos and Leiv Marsteintredet
Edition: 1st ed.
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 266
ISBN-13: 9780230618190
Description: A comprehensive analysis of a new type of executive instability without regime instability in Latin America referred to as 'presidential breakdown.'
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [239]-254) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Presidentialism and presidential breakdowns in Latin America / Mariana Llanos and Leiv Marsteintredet; title: Comparative perspectives: Presidentialism and early exits : the role of Congress / Ana Maria Mustapic ; Presidential and democratic breakdowns in Latin America : similar causes, different outcomes / Michael E. Alvarez and Leiv Marsteintredet; title: Cases of repeated breakdown: Presidential breakdowns in Argentina / Mariana Llanos ; Parliamentary solutions to presidential crises in Ecuador / Andres Mejia Acosta and John Polga-Hecimovich ; Civil society, social protest, and presidential breakdowns in Bolivia / Miguel A. Buitrago; title: The cases of impeachment: The Collor impeachment and presidential government in Brazil / Argelina Cheibub Figueiredo ; The impeachment of Carlos Andres Perez and the collapse of Venezuelan partyarchy / Rickard Lalander ; Paraguay : the president in his general's labyrinth / Detlef Nolte; title: Presidential breakdowns restoring democratic order: Guarding privileges and saving the day : Guatemalan elites and the settlement of the serranazo / Maren Christensen Bjune and Stina Petersen ; The Dominican Republic and the fall of Balaguer 1994-1996 : presidential breakdown or democratic transition? / Leiv Marsteintredet ; Peru and the Fujimori presidential breakdown in 2000 : continuismo gone bad / Einar Berntzen and Tor-Einar Holvik Skinlo; title: Conclusions: presidential breakdowns revisited / Mariana Llanos and Leiv Marsteintredet; title: Epilogue / Mariana Llanos and Leiv Marsteintredet.