TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lijphart,Arend
AU  - Waisman,Carlos H.
TI  - Institutional design in new democracies: Eastern Europe and Latin America 
T2  - Latin America in global perspective
SN  - 0813321085 (hardback : alk. paper)
AV  - JL966 .I57 1996
U1  - 324.6/3/09049 20
PY  - 1996///
CY  - Boulder, Colo.
PB  - Westview Press
KW  - New democracies
KW  - Latin America
KW  - Europe, Central
KW  - Europe, Eastern
KW  - Comparative government
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 1980-
KW  - Economic policy
KW  - 1989-
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Institutional design and democratization; Arend Lijphart and Carlos H. Waisman --; Initiation of new democratic institutions in Eastern Europe and Latin America; Barbara Geddes --; Electoral systems and electoral reform in Latin America; Dieter Nohlen --; Proportional representation versus majoritarian systems : free elections and political parties in Poland, 1989-1991; Stanislaw Gebethner --; Electoral engineering and democratic stability : the legacy of authoritarian rule in Chile; Peter Siavelis and Arturo Valenzuela; Executive-legislative relations in crisis : Poland's experience, 1989-1993; Jerzy J. Wiatr --; Parliamentarism in the making : crisis and political transformation in Hungary; György Szoboszlai --; Changing the balance of power in a hegemonic party system : the case of Mexico; Juan Molinar Horcasitas --; Hyperpresidentialism and constitutional reform in Argentina; Carlos Santiago Nino --; Privatization in Central Europe : can it be designed?; Éva Voszka --; Obstacles to economic reform in Brazil; Juarez Brandão Lopes --; Multiple roles of privatization in Argentina; Roberto Frenkel and Guillermo Rozenwurcel --; Design of democracies and markets : generalizing across regions; Arend Lijphart and Carlos H. Waisman
N2  - "Excellent treatment of the problems involved in the institutional design of democratization. Using a comparative perspective, authors examine the relationship between the tasks of institutional design and the policy outcomes of economic and political liberalization in Latin America and in Central and Eastern Europe. Focuses on how institutions serve a market economy, the design of electoral laws, and executive-legislative relations. Although differences do exist, authors find that 'Eastern Europe and Latin America are conceptual and theoretical neighbors rather than distant strangers' to the process of democratization"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57
UR  - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0833/96006133-b.html
UR  - http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0833/96006133-d.html
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