Capitulo 2: El juicio político: teoría e historia en Latinoamérica

Abstract

Throughout the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Latin American countries have seen major changes in the emergence and Latin American countries have seen great changes in the emergence and formation of their democracies.

and formation of their democracies. The establishment of dictatorships, the transformation of semi-democratic of semi-democratic systems, the creation of democracies1 and the inescapable

and presidential ines- tability and crises have and presidential crises have imprinted a compulsive dynamic on the region's political environment.

in the region's political environment.