The Failure of presidential democracy / 
edited by Juan J. Linz and Arturo Valenzuela. 
 - Baltimore :  Johns Hopkins University Press,  c1994. 
 - xvi, 436 p. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0801846390 (acid-free paper) 9780801846397 (acid-free paper) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>93027221  
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Presidents.<br/>Cabinet system.<br/>Democracy.<br/>Representative government and representation.<br/>Presidents--Case studies.--Latin America
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Latin America--Politics and government--Case studies.
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Political systems 
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>JF 255  / F161 1994 
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>321.8/042