Presidential breakdowns in Latin America : causes and outcomes of executive instability in developing democracies / edited by Mariana Llanos and Leiv Marsteintredet.

Other author Llanos, Mariana, 1967-
Other author Marsteintredet, Leiv.
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Edition1st ed.
Publication InfoNew York : Palgrave Macmillan, 2010.
Descriptionxvii, 266 pages ; 22 cm
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Contents Introduction: Presidentialism and presidential breakdowns in Latin America / Mariana Llanos and Leiv Marsteintredet -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- 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 -- Conclusions: presidential breakdowns revisited / Mariana Llanos and Leiv Marsteintredet -- Epilogue / Mariana Llanos and Leiv Marsteintredet.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. [239]-254) and index.
LCCN 2010280619
ISBN9780230618190
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