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Fixing Democracy

Why Constitutional Change Often Fails to Enhance Democracy in Latin America

By: Javier Corrales

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Fixing Democracy

Why Constitutional Change Often Fails to Enhance Democracy in Latin America

By: Javier Corrales

The study of institutions, a core concept in comparative politics, has produced many rich and influential theories on the economic and political effects of institutions, yet it has been less successful at theorizing their origins. In Fixing Democracy, Javier Corrales develops a theory of institutional origins that concentrates on constitutions and levels of power within them. He reviews numerous Latin American constituent assemblies and constitutional amendments to explore why some democracies expand rather than restrict presidential powers and why this heightened presidentialism discourages democracy. His signal theoretical contribution is his elaboration on power asymmetries. Corrales determines that conditions of reduced power asymmetry make constituent assemblies more likely to curtail presidential powers, while weaker opposition and heightened power asymmetry is an indicator that presidential powers will expand. The bargain-based theory that he uses focuses on power distribution and provides a more accurate variable in predicting actual constitutional outcomes than other approaches based on functionalism or ideology. While the empirical focus is Latin America, Fixing Democracy contributes a broadly applicable theory to the scholarship both institutions and democracy.

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Oxford University Press

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0190868910

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9780190868918

Recommender System based on linked Data

By: Figueroa, Cristhian,Corrales, Juan Carlos,Morisio, Maurizio

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Recommender System based on linked Data

By: Figueroa, Cristhian,Corrales, Juan Carlos,Morisio, Maurizio

Linked Data principles have led to semantically interlink and connect different resourcesat data level regardless the structure, authoring, location etc. Data available on the Web using Linked Data has resulted in a global data space called the Web of Data. Moreover, thanks to the efforts of the scientific community and the W3C Linked Open Data (LOD) project, more and more data have been published on the Web of Data, helping its growth and evolution. This book studies Recommender Systems that use LInked Data as a source for generating recommendations exploiting the large amount of available resources and the relationships between them. Firts, a comprehensive state of the art is preseted in order to indetify and study frameworks and algorithms for RS that rely on Linked Data. Second a framework named AlLied taht makes available implementations of the most used algortihms for resource recommendation based on Linked Data is described. This framework is inteded to use and test the recommendation algorithms in various domains and contexts, and to analyze their behavior under different conditions. Accordingly the framework is suitable to compare the results of these algorithms both in performance and relevance, and to enable the development of innovative applications on top of it.

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Editorial Universidad del Cauca

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9587323815

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9789587323818

Dragon in the Tropics

Hugo Chavez and the Political Economy of Revolution in Venezuela

By: Javier Corrales,Michael Penfold-Becerra

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Dragon in the Tropics

Hugo Chavez and the Political Economy of Revolution in Venezuela

By: Javier Corrales,Michael Penfold-Becerra

The authors draw on their more than 15 years' experience researching Venezuela to examine the political rise of President Hugo Chávez, offering their own analyses of key issues, including their belief that oil wealth alone fails to explain the Venezuelan leader's success. Original.

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Brookings Institution Press

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0815704976

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9780815704973

The Promise of Participation

Experiments in Participatory Governance in Honduras and Guatemala

By: D. Altschuler,J. Corrales

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The Promise of Participation

Experiments in Participatory Governance in Honduras and Guatemala

By: D. Altschuler,J. Corrales

To what extent does participation in one particular domain of public life lead to wider participation in other areas? Through the use of an unprecedented survey supported by case studies this book explores how participatory governance in community-managed schools can alter the civic and political behaviour of participants.

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Springer

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1137271841

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9781137271846

Democracy and the Internet

Allies Or Adversaries?

By: Leslie David Simon,Javier Corrales,Donald R. Wolfensberger

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Democracy and the Internet

Allies Or Adversaries?

By: Leslie David Simon,Javier Corrales,Donald R. Wolfensberger

In Democracy and the Internet: Allies or Adversaries? three essays draw evidence from starkly different regions of the world -- the Middle East, Latin America, and the United States.

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132

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Woodrow Wilson Center Press

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1930365098

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9781930365094

Presidents Without Parties

The Politics of Economic Reform in Argentina and Venezuela in The 1990s

By: Javier Corrales

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Presidents Without Parties

The Politics of Economic Reform in Argentina and Venezuela in The 1990s

By: Javier Corrales

Using Latin American examples, presents a new theory of how the interaction between presidents and ruling parties mediated economic governance.

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Penn State Press

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0271046570

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9780271046570

What it Takes, from $20 to $200 Million

A Memoir

By: Jerry Azarkman,Ruth Garcia-Corrales

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What it Takes, from $20 to $200 Million

A Memoir

By: Jerry Azarkman,Ruth Garcia-Corrales

What it Takes, from $20 to $200 Million is the true story of a man who with $20 in his pocket took a product and started selling it door to door, with ADD, not speaking English nor Spanish, but with the determination of making it happen. He identifies an underserved niche and develops a multimillion dollar operation, selling in Spanish in USA. This is the story of his family, the struggles and achievements and in a few steps it takes all from the start to the developing of a multimillion dollar business.

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Morgan James Publishing

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1683504550

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9781683504559

United States-Venezuela Relations Since the 1990s

By: Javier Corrales,Carlos A. Romero

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United States-Venezuela Relations Since the 1990s

By: Javier Corrales,Carlos A. Romero

Oil makes up one-third of Venezuela's entire GDP, and the United States is far and away Venezuela's largest trading partner. Relations between Venezuela and the United States, traditionally close for most of the last two centuries, began to fray as the end of the Cold War altered the international environment. U.S.-Venezuela Relations since the 1990s explores relations between these two countries since 1999, when Hugo Chavez came to office and proceeded to change Venezuela's historical relation with the United States and other democracies. The authors analyze the reasons for rising bilateral conflict, the decision-making process in Venezuela, the role played by public and private actors in shaping foreign policy, the role of other powers such as China, Russia, Iran, and Saudi Arabia in shaping U.S.-Venezuelan relations, the role of Venezuela in Cuba and Colombia, and the impact of broader international dynamics in the bi-lateral relations.

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Routledge

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0415895243

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9780415895248

Muslims in Spain, 1492-1814

Living and Negotiating in the Land of the Infidel

By: Eloy Martín-Corrales

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Muslims in Spain, 1492-1814

Living and Negotiating in the Land of the Infidel

By: Eloy Martín-Corrales

In Muslims in Spain, 1492-1814: Living and Negotiating in the Land of the Infidel, Eloy Martín-Corrales surveys Hispano-Muslim relations from the late fifteenth to the eighteenth centuries, a period of chronic hostilities. Nonetheless there were thousands of Muslims in Spain at that time: ambassadors, exiles, merchants, converts, and travelers. Their negotiating strategies, and the necessary support they found on both shores of the Mediterranean prove that relations between Spaniards and Muslims were based on reasons of state and on a pragmatism that generated intense political and economic ties.These increased enormously after the peace treaties that Spain signed with Muslim countries between 1767 and 1791.

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BRILL

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9004443762

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9789004443761

Autocracy Rising

How Venezuela Transitioned to Authoritarianism

By: Javier Corrales

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Autocracy Rising

How Venezuela Transitioned to Authoritarianism

By: Javier Corrales

How Nicolás Maduro reinvented authoritarianism for the twenty-first centurVenezuela, which once enjoyed periods of democratically elected governments in the latter half of the twentieth century, has descended into autocratic rule, coupled with economic collapse. In his new book, Autocracy Rising, veteran scholar of Latin American politics Javier Corrales explores how and why this happened. Corrales focuses on two themes: party systems and institutional capacity. He argues that Venezuela’s democratic backsliding advanced when the ruling party obtained far too much electoral clout while the opposition fragmented. The state then took control of formerly independent agencies of the state. This allowed the ruling party to use and abuse of the law to favor the president—which in turn generated a permanent economic crisis. After succeeding Hugo Chávez in 2013, Nicolás Maduro confronted, unexpectedly, another change in the party system: a rising opposition. This triggered deeper autocratization. To survive, the state was compelled to modernize autocratic practices and seek alliances with sinister partners. In short, Maduro concentrated power, paradoxically, by sharing power. Autocracy Rising compares what occurred in Venezuela to twenty other cases throughout Latin America where presidents were forced out of office. Corrales illuminates the depressing cycle in which semi-authoritarian regimes become increasingly autocratic in response to crisis, only to cause new crises that lead to even greater authoritarianism.

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Brookings Institution Press

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0815738080

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Book's by Corrales, Juan Carlos

Fixing Democracy

Fixing Democracy

Recommender System based on linked Data

Recommender System based on linked Data

Dragon in the Tropics

Dragon in the Tropics

The Promise of Participation

The Promise of Participation

Democracy and the Internet

Democracy and the Internet

Presidents Without Parties

Presidents Without Parties

What it Takes, from $20 to $200 Million

What it Takes, from $20 to $200 Million

United States-Venezuela Relations Since the 1990s

United States-Venezuela Relations Since the 1990s

Muslims in Spain, 1492-1814

Muslims in Spain, 1492-1814

Autocracy Rising

Autocracy Rising

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