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Fixing Democracy
Javier Corrales
其他書名
Why Constitutional Change Often Fails to Enhance Democracy in Latin America
出版
Oxford University Press
, 2018
主題
Political Science / General
Political Science / Political Ideologies / Democracy
Political Science / Comparative Politics
Political Science / History & Theory
Political Science / Law Enforcement
Political Science / Constitutions
Political Science / Political Process / Leadership
Political Science / Political Ideologies / General
Political Science / World / Caribbean & Latin American
ISBN
0190868902
9780190868901
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=gEk6swEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
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 constitutional amendments to explore why some democracies expand rather than restrict presidential powers and why this heightened presidentialism discourages democracy. His signal theoretical contribution is his elaboration on power asymmetries. Corrales determines that conditions of reduced power asymmetry make constituent assemblies more likely to curtail presidential powers, while weaker opposition and heightened power asymmetry is an indicator that presidential powers will expand. The bargain-based theory that he uses focuses on power distribution and provides a more accurate variable in predicting actual constitutional outcomes than other approaches based on functionalism or ideology. While the empirical focus is Latin America, Fixing Democracy contributes a broadly applicable theory to the scholarship both institutions and democracy.