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  • Presidential Personalities and Constitutional Power Grabs in Latin America, 1945-2021

    by Ignacio Arana Araya ...
    The active erosion of democratic institutions and norms by national political leaders has become a growing global concern. Attempts to expand presidential power have been commonplace across regimes, countries, and historical periods, and the list of perpetrators includes some of the most influential leaders of the previous and current centuries, who have dramatically changed the course of their ... Read more

    $80.09 USD

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  • Falling Behind

    Explaining the Development Gap Between Latin America and the United States

    Edited by Francis Fukuyama ...
    In 1700, Latin America and British North America were roughly equal in economic terms. Yet over the next three centuries, the United States gradually pulled away from Latin America, and today the gap between the two is huge. Why did this happen? Was it culture? Geography? Economic policies? Natural resources? Differences in political development? The question has occupied scholars for decades, and ... Read more

    $35.09 USD

  • Brazil in Transition

    Beliefs, Leadership, and Institutional Change

    by Bernardo Mueller, Carlos Pereira, Lee J. Alston, Marcus André Melo ...
    Series series The Princeton Economic History of the Western World
    Brazil is the world's sixth-largest economy, and for the first three-quarters of the twentieth century was one of the fastest-growing countries in the world. While the country underwent two decades of unrelenting decline from 1975 to 1994, the economy has rebounded dramatically. How did this nation become an emerging power? Brazil in Transition looks at the factors behind why this particular ... Read more

    $38.19 USD

  • The Deadlock of Democracy in Brazil

    by Barry Ames ...
    Series series Interests, Identities, And Institutions In Comparative Politics
    Many countries have experimented with different electoral rules in order either to increase involvement in the political system or make it easier to form stable governments. Barry Ames explores this important topic in one of the world's most populous and important democracies, Brazil. This book locates one of the sources of Brazil's "crisis of governance" in the nation's unique electoral system, a ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Autocracy Rising

    How Venezuela Transitioned to Authoritarianism

    by Javier Corrales ...
    How Nicolás Maduro reinvented authoritarianism for the twenty-first centurVenezuela, which once enjoyed periods of democratically elected governments in the latter half of the twentieth century, has descended into autocratic rule, coupled with economic collapse. In his new book, Autocracy Rising, veteran scholar of Latin American politics Javier Corrales explores how and why this happened.Corrales ... Read more

    $28.99 USD

  • Direct Democracy Worldwide

    by David Altman ...
    Challenging the common assumption that models of direct democracy and representative democracy are necessarily at odds, Direct Democracy Worldwide demonstrates how practices of direct and representative democracy interact under different institutional settings and uncovers the conditions that allow them to coexist in a mutually reinforcing manner. Whereas citizen-initiated mechanisms of direct ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Resisting Backsliding

    Opposition Strategies against the Erosion of Democracy

    by Laura Gamboa ...
    In the past two decades, democratically elected executives across the world have used their popularity to push for legislation that, over time, destroys systems of checks and balances, hinders free and fair elections, and undermines political rights and civil liberties. Using and abusing institutions and institutional reform, some executives have transformed their countries' democracies into ... Read more

    $31.99 USD

  • Latino Politics in America

    Community, Culture, and Interests

    by John A. García, Gabriel Ramon Sanchez ...
    The fourth edition of this widely-used textbook introduces students to what it means to be a Latino American culturally and politically at a time of unprecedented challenges for America’s diverse and fastest-growing ethnic group. Garcia and Sanchez provide an in-depth examination of the individual communities that comprise the Latino culture, and how those bonds affect political development and ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Domestic Politics and International Human Rights Tribunals

    The Problem of Compliance

    by Courtney Hillebrecht ...
    Series Book 104 - Cambridge Studies in International and Comparative Law
    International politics has become increasingly legalized over the past fifty years, restructuring the way states interact with each other, international institutions, and their own constituents. The international legalization of human rights now makes it possible for individuals to take human rights claims against their governments at international courts such as the European and Inter-American ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Making Constitutions

    Presidents, Parties, and Institutional Choice in Latin America

    by Gabriel L. Negretto ...
    Negretto provides the first systematic explanation of the origins of constitutional designs from an analytical, historical and comparative perspective. Based on analysis of constitutional change in Latin America from 1900 to 2008 and four detailed case studies, Negretto shows the main determinants of constitutional choice are the past performance of constitutions in providing effective and ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Political Institutions and Party-Directed Corruption in South America

    Stealing for the Team

    by Daniel W. Gingerich ...
    Series series Political Economy of Institutions and Decisions
    An important question for the health and longevity of democratic governance is how institutions may be fashioned to prevent electoral victors from drawing on the resources of the state to perpetuate themselves in power. This book addresses the issue by examining how the structure of electoral institutions - the rules of democratic contestation that determine the manner in which citizens choose ... Read more

    $38.99 USD

  • Forbearance as Redistribution

    The Politics of Informal Welfare in Latin America

    by Alisha C. Holland ...
    Series series Cambridge Studies in Comparative Politics
    Why do governments tolerate the violation of their own laws and regulations? Conventional wisdom is that governments cannot enforce their laws. Forbearance as Redistribution challenges the standard interpretation by showing that politicians choose not to enforce laws to distribute resources and win elections. Alisha Holland demonstrates that this forbearance towards activities such as squatting ... Read more

    $35.99 USD