The 1980s and 1990s have seen several authoritarian governments voluntarily cede power to constitutionally elected democratic governments. John Londregan uses Chile as a case study of this phenomenon, exploring what sorts of guarantees are required for those who are ceding power…
The 1980s and 1990s have seen several authoritarian governments voluntarily cede power to constitutionally elected democratic governments. John Londregan uses Chile as a case study of this phenomenon, exploring what sorts of guarantees are required for those who are ceding power…
"This is a book about the guarantees demanded by authoritarian governments that voluntarily cede power to democratic successors, employing Chile as a case study. It shows that such guarantees are a special case of a much more general problem of constitutional design: how to cons…
