The President and Congress in Postauthoritarian Chile - 9780271019475

The President and Congress in Postauthoritarian ChileInstitutional Constraints to Democratic Consolidation\nAuthor(s): Peter M. Siavelis\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Pennsylvania State University Press, United States\nImprint: Pennsylvania State University Press\nISBN-13: 9780271019475, 978-0271019475\nSynopsis\nAs many formerly authoritarian regimes have been replaced by democratic governments in Latin America, Eastern Europe, and elsewhere, questions have arisen about the stability and durability of these new governments. One concern has to do with the institutional arrangements for governing bequeathed to the new democratic regimes by their authoritarian predecessors and with the related issue of whether presidential or parliamentary systems work better for the consolidation of democracy.\n\nIn this book, Peter Siavelis takes a close look at the important case of Chile, which had a long tradition of successful legislative resolution of conflict but was left by the Pinochet regime.