TY  - BOOK
AU  - Domínguez,Jorge I.
AU  - Shifter,Michael
TI  - Constructing democratic governance in Latin America
T2  - An inter-American dialogue book
SN  - 9781421409795 (pbk. : alk. paper)
AV  - JL 966 C758 2013
U1  - 320.98 
PY  - 2013///
CY  - Baltimore
PB  - John Hopkins University Press
KW  - Democracy
KW  - Latin America
KW  - Democracia
KW  - América Latina
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 1980-
KW  - Política y gobierno
N1  - Includes bibliographic references and index; Introduction : new issues in democratic governance / Michael Shifter
Constitutional rewrites in Latin America, 1987-2009 / Javier Corrales
Mass media and politics in Latin America / Taylor C. Boas
Security challenges for Latin American democratic governance / Lucía Dammert
Natural resources boom and institutional curses in the new political economy of South America / Sebastián Mazzuca
Argentina : democratic consolidation, partisan dealignment, and institutional weakness / Ernesto Calvo and María Victoria Murillo
Bolivia : keeping the coalition together / George Gray Molina
Brazil : democracy in the PT era / David Samuels
Chile : beyond transitional models of politics / Peter M. Siavelis
Colombia : democratic governance amidst an armed conflict / Eduardo Posada-Carbó
Mexico : democratic advances and limitations / Shannon O'Neil
Peru : the challenges of a democracy without parties / Steven Levitsky
Venezuela : political governance and regime change by electoral means / Ángel E. Álvarez
Conclusion : early twenty-first century democratic governance in Latin America / Jorge I. Domínguez
N2  - Already widely used in courses, Constructing Democratic Governance in Latin America will continue to interest students of Latin American politics, democratization studies, and comparative politics as well as policymakers
ER  -