Coup : the day the Democrats ousted their governor, put Republican Lamar Alexander in office early, and stopped a pardon scandal / by Hunt, Keel, 1948-, JSTOR

Table of Contents: “…The stranger -- The sharecropper's son and Nixon's choirboy -- The red-and-black plaid shirt -- The murders -- The madness -- A man of great promise -- The dominion of the Editor-in-Chief -- The Attorney General and the rule of law -- Illustration gallery -- The new list and the ticking clock -- The turmoil -- The call -- The rise of the speaker -- The cosmos of the Lieutenant Governor -- The dance -- The decision -- Illustration gallery -- The yellow-dog Chief Justice -- The arrival -- The oath -- The scramble -- The long night -- The white morning -- Epilogue: what became of them -- Timeline -- Postscript: A note on sources -- Sources: The interviews -- Lost manuscript found: My view of the coup from the eye of the storm / by Lamar Alexander.…”
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Dictatorships in twenty-first-century Latin America : Venezuela, Bolivia, Nicaragua, Ecuador, and El Salvador / by Hurtado, Osvaldo

Table of Contents: “…Part I: New forms of dictatorship -- The concept of democracy -- From military dictatorships to civilian dictatorships -- Dictatorships of the twenty-first century -- The governments of Hugo Chávez and Nicolás Maduro -- The government of Evo Morales -- The government of Daniel Ortega -- The government of Nayib Bukele -- Part II: The government of Rafael Correa -- The Correa-tailored constitution of 2008 -- The process of concentrating power -- The ruse of citizen participation -- Part III: Democratic institutions in an autocratic regime -- The rule of law -- The division of power -- The independence of the justice system -- Freedoms, guarantees, and rights -- Government transparency -- Political pluralism -- Alternation in power -- Free elections -- Part IV: Perspectives of authoritarianism -- The international community -- Causes of the dictatorial drift -- The arduous path of democracy.…”