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The Crisis of Democratic Representation in the Andes

By Scott Mainwaring , Ana Maria Bejarano , Eduardo Pizarro Leongomez

Book information

Publisher
Stanford University Press
Year
2006
ISBN
0804752788, 9780804752787, 9781429456807
Open Library ID
OL17201200M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1227081 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
379\379
Scanned
yes
Time added
2011-08-31 04:54:40

Description

The essays in this book analyze and explain the crisis of democratic representation in five Andean countries: Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Venezuela. In this region, disaffection with democracy, political parties, and legislatures has spread to an alarming degree. Many presidents have been forced from office, and many traditional parties have fallen by the wayside. These five countries have the potential to be negative examples in a region that has historically had strong demonstration and diffusion effects in terms of regime changes. The Crisis of Democratic Representation in the Andes addresses an important question for Latin America as well as other parts of the world: Why does representation sometimes fail to work?

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