i found this interesting i do not know how to post it. So here is the title: Presidential Coups d’etat and regime Change in latin American and Soviet Successor States. It was delivered at the 1998 meeting of the Latin American Studies Association, Chicago, Illinois September 24-26 1998. talks about the self-inflicted presidential coup d’etat or autogolpe. In Peru, Guatamela and Russis, presidents closed congress, suspended the constitution and sought to rule by decree until referenda or new legislative elections could be held to ratify a regime with broader executive powers. three contrasting traditions of democratic theory are assessed in light of autogolpes: electoral. liberal and deliberative democracy.
can someone else post it. it was written by Maxwell cameron. i found it as a pdf file when looking up a word slagstad means. A Norwegian word or surname. never did find out what slagstad means though.
Good find, thanks for mentioning it.
What happened in Latin America can happen here.
I put the title you mentioned into Google and found the same article on a web page.
Here is the link for those interested (sorry the title is in caps on the page, I am just copying and pasting):
PRESIDENTIAL COUPS D’ETAT AND REGIME CHANGE
IN LATIN AMERICAN AND SOVIET SUCCESSOR STATES
by Maxwell A. Cameron
Associate Professor
School of International Affairs
Carleton University
http://vm.uconn.edu/~kingston/Cameron.htm
Here is the Abstract:
What safeguards democracy when the demos allows its own voice to be silenced? In Latin American and Soviet successor states this problem took a novel form in the 1990s: that of the self-inflicted presidential coup d’ètat, or autogolpe. In Peru, Guatemala, and Russia, presidents closed congress, suspended the constitution, and sought to rule by decree until referenda or new legislative elections could be held to ratify a regime with broader executive powers. Three contrasting traditions of democratic theory are assessed in light of autogolpes: electoral, liberal, and deliberative democracy. Each offers a different lesson on the implications of autogolpes for electoral competition and parties, legislative-executive relations, the independence of the judiciary and the rule of law, civil-military relations, and the powers of the presidency. Based on this assessment, the article concludes that more scholarly attention must be given to the quality of democracy, its institutional diversity, and the complex connections between different attributes of democratic regimes.