This book deals with political institutions and their
effect on democracy in the Dominican Republic since
1966. It provides a new analysis of the Dominican
democracy, and uses case-study methods to generate
new and improve existing theories and concepts. The
book develops new measurements of critical concepts
such as deadlocks, and horizontal accountability, and
provides a thorough discussion of the concepts of
democracy, democratisation and the
institutionalisation of democracy. Through an
analysis of the Dominican regime, author finds, and
explains why, the Dominican democracy has...

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...