Pérez Liñán, Aníbal S.

Presidential impeachment and the new political instability in Latin América / Aníbal Pérez-Liñán. - New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2007. - xvi, 241 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. - Cambridge studies in comparative politics .

Includes bibliographical references (p. 215-234) and index.

Institutional crises in presidential regimes -- Five cases of impeachment and a presumed madman -- Presidential crises and the decline of military intervention -- Latin America in the age of scandal -- Scandals and the political economy of popular outrage -- Building a legislative shield: the institutional determinants of impeachment -- Towards a new pattern of political instability -- Rethinking Latin American presidentialism.

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Impeachments--Latin America.
Political corruption--Latin America.

JL959.5.C6 / P47 2007

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