Building Democratic Institutions: Party Systems in Latin America

by Scott Mainwaring

Book Overview

This volume fills the need for a comprehensive, up-to-date portrait of parties and party systems in Latin America. It includes chapters on all the large and medium-sized countries, as well as those smaller countries with older democratic traiditions: Argentina, Boliva, Brazil, Chile, Columbia, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, and Venezuaela. The book is framed by an Introduction that provides a theoretical and comparative conceptual...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804723052
• ISBN13: 9780804723053
• Release Date: January 1995
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 600 Pages
• Weight: 1.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.1"