{"product_id":"precarious-democracies-understanding-regime-stability-and-change-in-colombia-and-venezuela-9780268022266","title":"Precarious Democracies: Understanding Regime Stability and Change in Colombia and Venezuela","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Ana Maria Bejarano\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: University of Notre Dame Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: University of Notre Dame Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Political Ideologies - Democracy\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhy has democracy in Colombia and Venezuela evolved in very different directions? In \u003ci\u003ePrecarious Democracies\u003c\/i\u003e, Ana Maria Bejarano provides a comparative historical analysis of how the democratic regimes in these two countries have diverged, following similar transitions from authoritarian rule to democracy in the late 1950s.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRather than focusing on resource-driven explanations, such as the role of oil in Venezuela and coffee in Colombia, or on short-term elite choices and calculations, Bejarano argues that democratic development in Colombia and Venezuela is best understood from a vantage point that privileges political history, especially the history of institutional evolution. The book makes the case that a comparative historical institutional framework--focused both on institutional legacies from the distant past (such as the state and political parties) and on those from more recent critical junctures (the foundational pacts)--provides the best lens to account for the divergent trajectories followed by democratic regimes in Colombia and Venezuela in the second half of the twentieth century.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Notre Dame Press","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":47600782966935,"sku":"9780268022266","price":2924.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9780268022266.webp?v=1775009896","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/precarious-democracies-understanding-regime-stability-and-change-in-colombia-and-venezuela-9780268022266","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}