Presidential Breakdowns in Latin America: Causes and Outcomes of Executive Instability in Developing Democracies (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780230618190)

This volume is the first comprehensive analysis of a new type of executive instability without regime instability in Latin America referred to as "presidential breakdown." It includes a theoretical introduction framing the debate within the institutional literature on democracy and democratization, and the implications of this new type of executive instability for presidential democracies. Two comparative chapters analyze the causes, procedures, and outcomes of presidential breakdowns in a regional perspective, and country studies provide in-depth analyses of all countries in Latin America that have experienced one or several presidential breakdowns: Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Guatemala, Paraguay, Peru, and Venezuela. The book also includes an epilogue on the 2009 presidential crisis in Honduras.

Author: M. Llanos
ISBN-10: 0230618197
ISBN-13: 9780230618190
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Language: English
Published: 04/14/2010
Pages: 266
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.40w x 0.70d