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Benita loves to read in bed but keeps getting interrupted by a
whistling Tunche, a scary Supay and other spooky creatures from
Peruvian lore. To the creatures’ disbelief, Benita is so absorbed
by her book that she’s not the least bit scared of them. This
humorous celebration of bedtime reading puts a global twist on
taking the “scary” out of monsters.
Benita loves to read in bed but keeps getting interrupted by a
whistling Tunche, a scary Supay and other spooky creatures from
Peruvian lore. To the creatures’ disbelief, Benita is so absorbed
by her book that she’s not the least bit scared of them. This
humorous celebration of bedtime reading puts a global twist on
taking the “scary” out of monsters.
This book accounts for and analyzes the latest developments in
Latin American presidential democracies, with a special focus on
political institutions. The stellar line-up of renowned scholars of
Latin American politics and institutions from Latin America,
Europe, and the US, offer new insights into how democratic
institutions have operated within the critical context that marked
the political and social life of the region in the last few years:
the eruption of popular protest and discontent, the widespread
distrust of political institutions, and, of course, the COVID-19
pandemic. Combining different methodological approaches, including
cross-national studies, small-N studies, case studies, and
quantitative and qualitative data, the contributions cluster around
three themes: the problem with fixed-terms and other features of
presidentialism, inter-institutional relations and executive
accountability, and old and new threats to democracy in these times
of turmoil. The volume concludes with an assessment of the
political consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic in Latin America.
Beyond current scholars and students of comparative political
scientists, Latin America in Times of Turbulence will be of great
interest to a wide spectrum of readers interested in comparative
systems of government, democracy studies, and Latin American
politics more generally.
Benita loves to read in bed but keeps getting interrupted by a
whistling Tunche, a scary Supay and other spooky creatures from
Peruvian lore. To the creatures’ disbelief, Benita is so absorbed
by her book that she’s not the least bit scared of them. This
humorous celebration of bedtime reading puts a global twist on
taking the “scary” out of monsters, now in Spanish!
In this tale set in the ancient Inka empire, Little Chaski has a
big job: he is the Inka King's newest royal messenger. But on his
first day things quickly start to go awry. Will Little Chaski be
able to deliver the royal message on time?
Presidential term limits have been a crucial institutional feature
of the third wave of democratization. They are meant to safeguard
democracy by promoting alternation in office and preventing the
personalization of power. However, since the 1990s term limits have
been subject to frequent contestation by incumbents. Such
contestation process has often been considered a sign of
autocratization, particularly when it involves the weakening of
other constitutional constraints, such as courts and legislatures.
Term-limit contestations have attracted the attention of scholars
working with a global perspective as well as with a regional or
country-specific one too. Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa are
focal points of these trends, despite their different histories of
presidentialism and diverging types of term-limit rules. This book
generates new empirical and theoretical insights by bringing
together the scholarship on Latin America and sub-Saharan Africa,
providing context-bound intraregional research as well as long-term
perspectives for the study of term-limit change. The chapters
advance novel findings on institutionalization, the power of
precedence, incumbent-centred strategies, and approaches to protect
presidential term limits. This volume will be of great use to
students and researchers interested in Latin American and African
studies, comparative politics as well as political leadership. The
chapters in this book were originally published as a special issue
of Democratization.
In this tale set in the ancient Inka empire, Little Chaski has a
big job: he is the Inka King's newest royal messenger. But on his
first day things quickly start to go awry. Will Little Chaski be
able to deliver the royal message on time?
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