Gretchen Helmke

Institutions on the Edge

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Drawing on contemporary Latin America, this book argues that concentrating power in the executive branch destabilizes presidents, legislatures, and courts.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juli 2017
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 17mm
• Gewicht: 498g
• ISBN-13: 9780521496148
• ISBN-10: 0521496144
• Artikelnr.: 47616279

Autorenporträt

Gretchen Helmke is Professor of Political Science at the University of Rochester, New York. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Chicago.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction
2. Inter-branch crises in Latin America
3. Institutional crises as bargaining failures
4. Why the mighty fall: explaining the onset of presidential crises in contemporary Latin America
5. Constitutional coups as a commitment problem
6. Caught in the cross-fire? Inter-branch crises and judicial instability
7. Conclusion.