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Fixing Democracy

Paperback • 2018 • 1. edition

Fixing Democracy

By Amherst College) Corrales Javier (Professor of Political Science

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The study of institutions, a core concept in comparative politics, has produced many rich and influential theories on the economic and political effects of institutions, yet it has been less successful at theorizing their origins. In Fixing Democracy, Javier Corrales develops a theory of institutional origins that concentrates on constitutions and levels of power within them. He reviews numerous Latin American constituent assemblies and constitutionalamendments to explore why some democracies ex...Show more

Comparative politics

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9780190868901

Publisher

Oxford University Press Inc

Published year

2018

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Fixing Democracy

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