Venezuela enjoyed periods of democratically elected governments in the latter half of the twentieth century but in the past two decades has increasingly descended into autocratic rule, coupled with economic collapse. Venezuela's Transition to Authoritarianism explores how and why this happened.
Culled from decades of firsthand observations, this text is a cross-regional analysis of border people and borderlands of the North and post-colonial South. Focusing on themes of trade, migration, and security, Staudt highlights the importance of states, their length of time since independence, and border bureaucrats' discretionary practices.
Culled from decades of firsthand observations, this text is a cross-regional analysis of border people and borderlands of the North and post-colonial South. Focusing on themes of trade, migration, and security, Staudt highlights the importance of states, their length of time since independence, and border bureaucrats' discretionary practices.
The fate of democratic governments throughout the world is a topic of growing concern. The crises of modern history, from the Machtegreifung by Hitler through the downfall of the Allende government in Chile, have caused many to suspect an inevitable downfall of democracies. In a systematic review of the political experiences of Latin American and ......
Crisis, Breakdown, and Reequilibration - 144 pp. Juan J. Linz 0-8018-2009-X $8.76 (reg. $10.95) pb Chile - 144 pp. Arturo Valenzuela 0-8018-2010-3 $8.76 (reg. $10.95) pb Southern Europe - 249 pp. edited by Juan J. Linz and Alfred Stepan 0-8018-2022-7 $10.36 (reg. $12.95) pb Latin America - 232 pp. edited by Juan J. Linz and Alfred Stepan ......
Advocacy in the United States and the European Union
Presents the study of lobbying strategies and outcomes in the United States and the European Union. This book challenges the stereotypes that attribute any differences between the two systems to cultural ones - the American, a partisan and combative approach, and the European, a consensus-based one.
''Capitalism, Socialism, and Democracy Revisited is must reading for anyone who considers him- or herself a political economist, and it should also appeal to those probing the uncertainties of contemporary democratization.''--Philippe C. Schmitter, Stanford University.A Journal of Democracy Book.
