Institutions on the Edge: The Origins and Consequences of Inter-Branch Crises in Latin America

by Gretchen Helmke

Book Overview

Why does institutional instability pervade the developing world? Examining contemporary Latin America, Institutions on the Edge develops and tests a novel argument to explain why institutional crises emerge, spread, and repeat in some countries, but not in others. The book draws on formal bargaining theories developed in the conflict literature to offer the first unified micro-level account of inter-branch crises. In so doing, Helmke shows that concentrating...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521738407
• ISBN13: 9780521738408
• Release Date: January 2017
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.2" x 9.2"