Democratic Latin America

ISBN-13: 9780367353520 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 498 str.

Craig L. Arceneaux

Opis

A clear-eyed look at political institutions to provide a roadmap to the political activity in a country, Democratic Latin America continues to offer an original way of teaching and learning about contemporary Latin American politics.

Spis treści

1. An Institutional Approach to Democracy and Democratization in Latin America 2. State and Nation in Colonial Latin America  3. Constitutions: From States and Nations to Regimes, and Back Again  4. The Executive Branch: Latin American Style  5. The Legislative Branch: The Centerpiece of Democracy Under Fire  6. The Judiciary in Latin America: Separate but Unequal  7. Electoral Systems: The Core of Democratic Politics  8. From Civil Society to Political Parties: Putting Democracy into Practice  9. Federalism and Unitarism: Learning to Share  10. The Armed Forces: Bridging the Civil-Military Divide

O autorze

Craig L. Arceneaux is Professor of Political Science at California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo. He is author of Bounded Missions: Democratization in the Southern Cone and Brazil, co-author of Transforming Latin America, and editor of The Other World: Issues and Politics of the Developing World, in addition to various scholarly articles on civil-military relations, democratization, and elections in Latin America.