Scott Mainwaring, Anibal Perez-Linan, An Bal P. Rez-Li N.

Democracies and Dictatorships in Latin America

Emergence, Survival, and Fall

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Produktbeschreibung

Presents a new theory for why democracies and dictatorships emerge and then survive or collapse via analyses of political regimes in Latin America since 1900.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Januar 2014
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 26mm
• Gewicht: 749g
• ISBN-13: 9780521190015
• ISBN-10: 0521190010
• Artikelnr.: 40305869

Autorenporträt

Scott Mainwaring is the Eugene and Helen Conley Professor of Political Science at the University of Notre Dame. His research interests include democratic institutions, democratization, and political parties and party systems. Among his previous books are Rethinking Party Systems in the Third Wave of Democratization: The Case of Brazil (1999), The Third Wave of Democratization in Latin America: Advances and Setbacks (co-edited, Cambridge University Press, 2005), The Crisis of Democratic Representation in the Andes (co-edited, 2006) and Democratic Governance in Latin America (co-edited, 2010). Mainwaring is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2007, he was listed as one of the 400 most cited political scientists teaching in the United States.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. A theory of regime change and durability
3. Competitive regimes and authoritarianism in Latin America, 1900-2010
4. Regime survival and fall: a quantitative test
5. From breakdowns to stabilization of democracy: Argentina
6. From persistent authoritarianism to democracy: El Salvador
7. International actors, international influences, and regime outcomes
8. The limits of the third wave, 1978-2010
9. Rethinking theories of democratization.