Democracy in crisis: The two-party problem
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The Lesson of Latin American Presidential Democracy and Multi Party Systems
Is it that the president just gets stonewalled from multiple different directions by multiple different opposition parties, and you end up having a series of institutional crises? In weaker democracies, or i should say, institutionally weaker democracies, you even get military cops and social breakdowns and authoritarian presidents. The term auto cop emerges out of the latin american experience, which is not that democracy in latin America is a failure. There are lots and lots of examples of presidentialism going badly in that context.
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