Presidential Breakdowns in Latin America Causes and Outcomes of Executive Instability in Developing Democracies

by Llanos, Mariana; Marsteintredet, Leiv

• ISBN13: 9780230618190
• ISBN10: 0230618197
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2010-02-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

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.

Author Biography

Mariana Llanos is a Senior Research Fellow at the GIGA German Institute of Global and Area Studies, Institute of Latin American Studies, in Hamburg, Germany. She holds a Ph.D. in Politics from the University of Oxford and has published books and numerous articles in peer-reviewed journals and has edited books on Latin American political institutions, particularly Argentine politics, president-congress relations in Argentina, and the legislatures of the Southern Cone.

Leiv Marsteintredet is a PhD Research Fellow with the Department of Comparative Politics at the University of Bergen, Norway. He is currently completing his Ph.D. dissertation on presidential breakdowns in Latin America. Marsteintredet has published articles on presidential breakdowns and on political institutions in the Dominican Republic in journals such as Comparative Politics, Latin American Politics and Society, and América Latina Hoy.

Table of Contents

List of Tables	p. ix
Acknowledgments	p. xi
List of Abbreviations	p. xiii
Introduction: Presidentialism and Presidential Breakdowns in Latin America	p. 1
Comparative Perspectives
Presidentialism and Early Exits: The Role of Congress	p. 17
Presidential and Democratic Breakdowns in Latin America: Similar Causes, Different Outcomes	p. 33
Cases of Repeated Breakdown
Presidential Breakdowns in Argentina	p. 55
Parliamentary Solutions to Presidential Crises in Ecuador	p. 73
Civil Society, Social Protest, and Presidential Breakdowns in Bolivia	p. 91
The Cases of Impeachment
The Collor Impeachment and Presidential Government in Brazil	p. 111
The Impeachment of Carlos Andrés Pérez and the Collapse of Venezuelan Partyarchy	p. 129
Paraguay: The President in his General's Labyrinth	p. 147
Presidential Breakdowns Restoring Democratic Order
Guarding Privileges and Saving the Day: Guatemalan Elites and the Settlement of the Serranazo	p. 165
The Dominican Republic and the Fall of Balaguer 1994-1996: Presidential Breakdown or Democratic Transition?	p. 181
Peru and the Fujimori Presidential Breakdown in 2000: Continuismo Gone Bad	p. 197
Conclusions: Presidential Breakdowns Revisited	p. 213
Epilogue	p. 229
References	p. 239
Contributors	p. 255
Index	p. 257
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