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The Failure of presidential democracy / edited by Juan J. Linz and Arturo Valenzuela. - Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, c1994. - xvi, 436 p. ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Presidential or parliamentary democracy: does it make a difference? / Juan J. Linz -- Presidentialism and majoritarian democrary: theoretical observations / Arend Lijphart -- Neither presidentialism nor parliamentarism / Giovanni Sartori -- Presidentialism and parliamentarism in comparative perspective / Alfered Stepan and Cindy Skach -- Presidentialism and political stability in France / Ezra N. Suleiman -- Party politics and the crisis of presidentialism in Chile: a proposal for a parliamentary form of government / Arturo Valenzuela. (cont.) Presidentialism and democratic stability in Uruguay / Luis Eduardo Gonzâalez and Charles Guy Gillespie -- Brazil: toward parliamentarism? / Bolivar Lamounier -- Presidentialism and Colombian politics / Jonathan Hartlyn -- Loose parties, "floating" politicians, and institutional stress: presidentialism in Ecuador, 1979-1988 -- Presidents, messiahs, and constitutional breakdowns in Peru / Cynthia McClintock -- Venezuela: democratic despite presidentialism / Michael Coppedge.

ISBN: 0801846390 (acid-free paper) 9780801846397 (acid-free paper)

LCCN: 93027221

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Presidents.
Cabinet system.
Democracy.
Representative government and representation.
Presidents--Case studies.--Latin America

Subjects--Geographic Terms:
Latin America--Politics and government--Case studies.

Subjects--Index Terms: Political systems

LC Class. No.: JF 255 / F161 1994

Dewey Class. No.: 321.8/042