Research Catalog

Title

Fujimori's coup and the breakdown of democracy in Latin America / Charles D. Kenney.

Author

Kenney, Charles (Charles Dennison)

Publication

Notre Dame, Ind. : University of Notre Dame Press, c2004.

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Additional Authors

Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies

Description

xvi, 379 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

This text explores why and how democracy broke down in Peru in 1992. The author's argument is that institutional factors - especially the absence of a legislative majority - were crucial to the collapse of democracy in Peru during and before this period and throughout Latin America since the 1960s.

Subject

• Democracy > Latin America
• Democracy > Peru
• Fujimori, Alberto
• Peru > Politics and government > 1980-

Note

• "From the Helen Kellogg Institute for International Studies."

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 341-356) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

The question of democratic breakdown: historical and comparative contexts -- Democracy, violence, and economic crises in the 1980s -- The collapse of the party system and the rise of Fujimori -- The powers of the Peruvian presidency, dangerous influences, and Fujimori's critical choices -- The president and congress: cooperation and conflict, July 1990-November 1991 -- Fujimori versus congress and the Coup, November 1991-April 1992 -- Interpretations of the Autogolpe -- Minority presidencies and the breakdown of democracy in Latin America.

ISBN

• 0268031711 (cloth : alk. paper)
• 026803172X (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^2003017886

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library