Coups and Interrupted Presidencies in Latin America: New Form of the Old or Different Modes of Instability?

• In Event: Lightning Talk: Survival of Leaders and Regimes

Brief Overview

Study of presidential terms in Latin America since 1945 arguing that most countries in the region have moved in the direction of institutionalization of rule by competitive elections.

Authors

• Jose Antonio Antonio Cheibub, University of Pittsburgh-Pittsburgh Campus

• Fernando Limongi, University of São Paulo