Presidential Impeachment and the New Political Instability in Latin America (Paperback)

1. Institutional crises in presidential regimes; 2. Five cases of impeachment and a presumed madman; 3. Presidential crises and the decline of military intervention; 4. Latin America in the age of scandal; 5. Scandals and the political economy of popular outrage; 6. Building a legislative shield: the institutional determinants of impeachment; 7. Towards a new pattern of political instability; 8. Rethinking Latin American presidentialism.