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Dismantling democracy in Venezuela : the Chá́vez authoritarian experiment /

"Examines the process of dismantling the democratic institutions and protections in Venezuela under the Hugo Chávez regime. The actions of the Chávez government have influenced similar processes and undemocratic manoeuvrings in Ecuador, Bolivia, and Honduras. Since the election of Hugo Cháve...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Brewer Carías, Allan-Randolph
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York : Cambridge University Press, 2010.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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  • The 1999 exclusionist constitution-making process
  • The endless and illegitimate transitory constitutional regime
  • The 1999 political constitution and the reinforcement of centralization
  • The 1999 social and economic constitution and its problems
  • Constitutional fraud and defrauding democracy
  • The reinforced centralization of the federation
  • Concentration of powers and authoritarian government
  • The catastrophic dependence and political subjection of the Supreme Tribunal of Justice
  • State appropriation, nationalization, expropriation, and confiscation of private assets
  • The failed attempt to consolidate an authoritarian and antidemocratic political system in the constitution
  • The failed attempt to consolidate a centralized state in the constitution
  • The failed attempt to consolidate a socialist centralized economic system in the constitution
  • The irregular fraudulent implementation of the rejected constitutional reform through legislation
  • The illegitimate mutation of the constitution through judicial constitutional interpretation
  • The alternate principle of government and the 2009 constitutional amendment on continuous reelection.