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Cookie akzeptierenThe Unraveling of Representative Democracy in Venezuela
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- 2004
- Gebunden
- 376 Seiten
- ISBN 9780801879609
For four decades, Venezuela prided itself for having one of the most stable representative democracies in Latin America. Then, in 1992, Hugo Chvez Fras attempted an unsuccessful military coup. Six years later, he was elected president. Once in power, Chvez redrafted the 1961 constitution, dissolved the Congress, dismissed judges, and marginalized rival political parties. In a bid to create direct democracy, other Latin American democracies watched with mixed reactions: if representative democracy could break down so quickly in Venezuela, it could easily happen in countries with less-established traditions. On the other hand, would Chvez create a new form of democracy to redress the plight of the
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