Precarious Democracies : Understanding Regime Stability and Change in Colombia and Venezuela.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bejarano, Ana María.

Series:

Kellogg Institute Series on Democracy and Development Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Political stability.

Comparative government.

Genre:

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (369 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Notre Dame, IN : University of Notre Dame Press, 2011.

Summary:

Why has democracy in Colombia and Venezuela evolved in very different directions? In Precarious Democracies, Ana Maria Bejarano provides a comparative historical analysis of how the democratic regimes in these two countries have diverged, following similar transitions from authoritarian rule to democracy in the late 1950s. Rather than focusing on resource-driven explanations, such as the role of oil in Venezuela and coffee in Colombia, or on short-term elite choices and calculations, Bejarano argues that democratic development in Colombia and Venezuela is best understood from a vantage point that privileges political history, especially the history of institutional evolution. The book makes the case that a comparative historical institutional framework--focused both on institutional legacies from the distant past (such as the state and political parties) and on those from more recent critical junctures (the foundational pacts)--provides the best lens to account for the divergent trajectories followed by democratic regimes in Colombia and Venezuela in the second half of the twentieth century.

Contents:

Cover

Half title

Series page

Title page

Copyright

Dedication

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Introduction

Part I: History Matters

Chapter One: Oil versus Coffee

Chapter Two: Beyond Oil and Coffee

Part II: Rethinking Pacted Transitions and Their Legacies

Chapter Three: Reading Pacts as Political Blueprints

Part III" The Struggle for Democratic Institutionalization

Chapter Four: Subduing the Challengers

Chapter Five: Institutionalizing Inclusion and Contestation

Chapter Six: From Exceptions to Rules?

Notes

References

index.

Notes:

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ISBN:

0-268-07581-6

9780268075811

OCLC:

1573147859