TY  - BOOK
AU  - Linz,Juan J.
AU  - Valenzuela,Arturo
TI  - The Failure of presidential democracy
SN  - 0801846390 (acid-free paper)
AV  - JF 255 F161 1994
U1  - 321.8/042 
PY  - 1994///
CY  - Baltimore
PB  - Johns Hopkins University Press
KW  - Presidents
KW  - Cabinet system
KW  - Democracy
KW  - Representative government and representation
KW  - Latin America
KW  - Case studies
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - Political systems
N1  - 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
UR  - http://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/jhu051/93027221.html
ER  -