The Deadlock of Democracy in Brazil

by Barry Ames

Book Overview

Many countries have experimented with different electoral rules in order either to increase involvement in the political system or make it easier to form stable governments. Barry Ames explores this important topic in one of the world's most populous and important democracies, Brazil. This book locates one of the sources of Brazil's "crisis of governance" in the nation's unique electoral system, a system that produces a multiplicity of weak parties...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0472111604
• ISBN13: 9780472111602
• Release Date: January 2001
• Publisher: University of Michigan Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.0"