Books written by Scott Mainwaring
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The Crisis of Democratic Representation in the Andes
For arguments that representative democracy is superior to direct democracy , see Brennan and Hamlin ( 1999 ) and Manin ( 1997 ) . These contemporary arguments hark back to the ... Scott Mainwaring and Timothy R. Scully , 164–99 .
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Politics, Society, And Democracy Latin America
108–109; and Barbara Weinstein, “The Industrialists, the State and the Issue of Worker Training and Social Services in Brazil, 1930–1950,” Hispanic American Historical Review 70, 3 (1990): 384. The two labor departments were merged in ...
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Democracies and Dictatorships in Latin America: Emergence, Survival, and Fall
Burkhart, Ross E., and Michael Lewis-Beck. 1994. ... In Guillermo O'Donnell, Philippe C. Schmitter, and Laurence Whitehead, eds., Transitions from Authoritarian Rule: Comparative Perspectives, pp. 137–53.
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Party Systems in Latin America: Institutionalization, Decay, and Collapse
Party Systems in Latin America builds on, challenges, and updates Mainwaring and Timothy Scully's seminal Building Democratic Institutions: Party Systems in Latin America (1995), which re-oriented the study of democratic party systems in ...
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Party Systems in Latin America
“Organization and Labor-Based Party Adaptation: The Transformation of Argentine Peronism in Comparative Perspective.” World Politics 54(1): 27–56. 2003. Transforming Labor-Based Parties in Latin America: Argentine Peronism in ...
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Rethinking Party Systems in the Third Wave of Democratization: The Case of Brazil
Based on an in-depth examination of the Brazillian case, this book argues that we need to rethink important theoretical issues and empirical realities of party systems in the third wave of democratization.
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Democratic Accountability in Latin America
This volume on democratic accountability addresses one of the burning issues on the agenda of policy makers and citizens in contemporary Latin America: how democratic leaders in Latin America can improve accountability while simultaneously ...
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Democratic Governance in Latin America
Focusing on the post-1990 period, this volume addresses why some policies and some countries have been more successful than others in meeting this dual challenge. Two features of the volume stand out.
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Presidentialism and Democracy in Latin America
David J. Samuels and Matthew S. Shugart provide the first systematic analysis of how democratic constitutional design shapes party politics.
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Life after Dictatorship: Authoritarian Successor Parties Worldwide
“O Partido da Frente Liberal: o dissenso dos governadores pedessistas nordestinos e a busca de uma nova imagem.” In Joaquim Falcão and Constança Pereira de Sá, eds., Nordeste: Eleições, pp. 39–60. Recife: Fundação Joaquim Nabuco.
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Democracy in Hard Places
Hard. Places. Scott Mainwaring This volume addresses a puzzle that has important theoretical consequences for how social scientists and historians understand democracy: why does democracy sometimes survive in very inauspicious ...
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Life after Dictatorship: Authoritarian Successor Parties Worldwide
This book presents a new set of terms, definitions, and research questions designed to travel across regions, and presents new data on these parties' prevalence and frequent return to power.
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Christian Democracy in Latin America: Electoral Competition and Regime Conflicts
Christian Democracy swept across parts of Latin America, gaining influence in Venezuela in the 1940s, Chile in the 1950s, El Salvador and Guatemala in the 1960s, and Costa Rica and...
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Democracies and Dictatorships in Latin America: Emergence, Survival, and Fall
Presents a new theory for why democracies and dictatorships emerge and then survive or collapse via analyses of political regimes in Latin America since 1900.
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Democratic Governance in Latin America
Focusing on the post-1990 period, this volume addresses why some policies and some countries have been more successful than others in meeting this dual challenge. Two features of the volume stand out.
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Politics, Society, And Democracy: Latin America
This is the third of four volumes compiled in honor of Juan J. Linz and edited by H. E. Chehabi, Richard Gunther, Alfred Stepan, and Arturo Valenzuela. Each volume presents...