Osvaldo Hurtado

Dictatorships in Twenty-First-Century Latin America

Venezuela, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Ecuador, and El Salvador

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

This book explores the most important Latin American political phenomenon to emerge in the twenty-first century: democratic governments have become autocratic governments not by military coups but by politicians' manipulation of the system after a fair election. Through five countries, the book examines this new generation of Latin American dictators.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
• Seitenzahl: 308
• Erscheinungstermin: 16. Dezember 2022
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 23mm
• Gewicht: 653g
• ISBN-13: 9781538171073
• ISBN-10: 1538171074
• Artikelnr.: 64982553

Autorenporträt

Osvaldo Hurtado is an Ecuadorian author and politician who served as president of Ecuador from 1981 to 1984.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgments
PART I: NEW FORMS OF DICTATORSHIP
Chapter 1: The Concept of Democracy
Chapter 2: From Military Dictatorships to Civilian Dictatorships
Chapter 3: Dictatorships of the Twenty-First Century
Chapter 4: The Governments of Hugo Chávez and Nicolás Maduro
Chapter 5: The Government of Evo Morales
Chapter 6: The Government of Daniel Ortega
Chapter 7: The Government of Nayib Bukele
PART II: THE GOVERNMENT OF RAFAEL CORREA
Chapter 8: The Correa-Tailored Constitution of 2008
Chapter 9: The Process of Concentrating Power
Chapter 10: The Ruse of Citizen Participation
PART III: DEMOCRATIC INSTITUTIONS IN AN AUTOCRATIC REGIME
Chapter 11: The Rule of Law
Chapter 12: The Division of Power
Chapter 13: The Independence of the Justice System
Chapter 14: Freedoms, Guarantees, and Rights
Chapter 15: Government Transparency
Chapter 16: Political Pluralism
Chapter 17: Alternation in Power
Chapter 18: Free Elections
PART IV: PERSPECTIVES ON AUTHORITARIANISM
Chapter 19: The International Community
Chapter 20: Causes of the Dictatorial Drift
Chapter 21: The Arduous Path of Democracy
References
About the Author