Mariana Llanos / Leiv Marsteintredet

Introduction: Latin American Presidential Democracies in Times of Turbulence

Routledge Studies in Latin American Politics | 2023


  • Abstract

    This chapter introduces the topic of Latin American presidential democracies and their often-weak political institutions facing turbulent circumstances. Democratic institutions in Latin America have worked in a context marked by the eruption of popular protest and discontent, the widespread distrust of political institutions constituting a crisis of representation and, of course, the COVID-19 pandemic. Democratic institutions in the region have also had to respond to these external challenges. In this chapter we argue the responses have taken one of three forms: executive attempts or strategies to concentrate greater power in their hands, institutional innovation and change, and/or resorting to symbolic or incomplete institutional actions. With chapters clustering around the topics of fixed terms and other problems of presidentialism, inter-institutional relations and executive accountability, as well as old and new threats to democracy, the volume concludes highlighting the resilience of the region’s institutions to the often-overwhelming turbulent circumstances of the last few years.

    Erschienen in

    Latin America in Times of Turbulence

    Herausgeber:in(nen)

    Mariana Llanos

    Leiv Marsteintredet

    Reihe

    Routledge Studies in Latin American Politics

    Verlag

    Routledge

    Seiten

    1-16

    ISBN

    9781032322612

    9781003324249

    Erscheinungsort

    New York


    Prof. Dr. Leiv Marsteintredet

    Prof. Dr. Leiv Marsteintredet

    Institutt for sammenliknende politikk, Universitetet i Bergen


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