Breakdown, Cooperation, or Backsliding? A Return to Presidents and Legislatures in Latin America

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This essay reviews the following works: Legislative Institutions and Lawmaking in Latin America. Edited by Eduardo Alemán and George Tsebelis. New York: Oxford University Press, 2016. Pp. xvii + 266. $90.00 hardcover. ISBN: 9780198777861. Democratization by Institutions: Argentina’s Transition Years in Comparative Perspective. By Leslie E. Anderson. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 2016. Pp. xii + 292. $34.95 paperback. ISBN: 9780472053230. Political Institutions and Party-Directed Corruption in South America: Stealing for the Team. By Daniel W. Gingerich. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013. Pp. xviii + 282. $34.99 hardcover. ISBN: 9781107040441. Dictators and Democrats: Masses, Elites, and Regime Change. By Stephan Haggard and Robert R. Kaufman. New Jersey Princeton University Press, 2016. Pp. xxii + 396. $32.95 paperback. ISBN: 9780691172156. Institutions on the Edge: The Origins and Consequences of Inter-Branch Crises in Latin America. By Gretchen Helmke. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2017. Pp. xvii + 183 pp. $28.99 paperback. ISBN: 9780521738408. How Democracies Die: What History Reveals about Our Future. By Steven Levitsky and Daniel Ziblatt. New York: Penguin, 2018. Pp. 320. $16.00 paperback. ISBN: 9781524762940.