The case of Latin America
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The case of Latin America
(The failure of presidential democracy / edited by Juan J. Linz and Arturo Valenzuela, v. 2)
Johns Hopkins University Press, c1994
- : pbk.
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  Aomori
  Iwate
  Miyagi
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  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
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  Netherlands
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  United States of America
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Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Citizens of the United States, heirs to two centuries of democratic government, tend to believe that presidentialism - rather than parliamentarism - is the political system that best ensures a stable democracy. In Latin America, however, where many governments have been modelled on that of the United States, presidentialism has had mixed success. In "The Failure of Presidential Democracy", Juan Linz and Arturo Valenzuela bring together leading scholars to examine the question of whether presidentialism or parliamentarism offers the best hope for stable government and democratic continuity.
Table of Contents
- Party politics and the crisis of presidentialism in Chile - a proposal for a parliamentary form of government, Arturo Valenzuela
- presidentialism and democratic stability in Uruguay, Luis Eduardo Gonzalez and Charles Guy Gillespie
- Brazil - toward parliamentarism?, Bolivar Lamounier
- presidentialism and Colombian politics, Jonathon Hartlyn
- loose parties, "floating" politicans, and institutional stress - presidentialism in Ecuador, 1979-1988, Catherine M. Conaghan
- presidents, messiahs, and constitutional breakdowns in Peru, Cynthia McClintock
- Venezuela - democratic despite presidentialism, Michael Coppedge.
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