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Argentine Democracy

Author : Steven Levitsky
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271027169
Total Pages : 338 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Argentine Democracy written by Steven Levitsky and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 338 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: During the 1990s Argentina was the only country in Latin America to combine radical economic reform and full democracy. In 2001, however, the country fell into a deep political and economic crisis and was widely seen as a basket case. This book explores both developments, examining the links between the (real and apparent) successes of the 1990s and the 2001 collapse. Specific topics include economic policymaking and reform, executive-legislative relations, the judiciary, federalism, political parties and the party system, and new patterns of social protest. Beyond its empirical analysis, the book contributes to several theoretical debates in comparative politics. Contemporary studies of political institutions focus almost exclusively on institutional design, neglecting issues of enforcement and stability. Yet a major problem in much of Latin America is that institutions of diverse types have often failed to take root. Besides examining the effects of institutional weakness, the book also uses the Argentine case to shed light on four other areas of current debate: tensions between radical economic reform and democracy; political parties and contemporary crises of representation; links between subnational and national politics; and the transformation of state-society relations in the post-corporatist era. Besides the editors, the contributors are Javier Auyero, Ernesto Calvo, Kent Eaton, Sebasti&án Etchemendy, Gretchen Helmke, Wonjae Hwang, Mark Jones, Enrique Peruzzotti, Pablo T. Spiller, Mariano Tommasi, and Juan Carlos Torre.

The Politics of Institutional Weakness in Latin America

Author : Daniel M. Brinks
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108803172
Total Pages : 359 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book The Politics of Institutional Weakness in Latin America written by Daniel M. Brinks and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2020-06-11 with total page 359 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Analysts and policymakers often decry the failure of institutions to accomplish their stated purpose. Bringing together leading scholars of Latin American politics, this volume helps us understand why. The volume offers a conceptual and theoretical framework for studying weak institutions. It introduces different dimensions of institutional weakness and explores the origins and consequences of that weakness. Drawing on recent research on constitutional and electoral reform, executive-legislative relations, property rights, environmental and labor regulation, indigenous rights, squatters and street vendors, and anti-domestic violence laws in Latin America, the volume's chapters show us that politicians often design institutions that they cannot or do not want to enforce or comply with. Challenging existing theories of institutional design, the volume helps us understand the logic that drives the creation of weak institutions, as well as the conditions under which they may be transformed into institutions that matter.

Understanding Institutional Weakness

Author : Daniel M. Brinks
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9781108738880
Total Pages : 75 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (388 download)

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Download or read book Understanding Institutional Weakness written by Daniel M. Brinks and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-06-27 with total page 75 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Element introduces the concept of institutional weakness, arguing that weakness or strength is a function of the extent to which an institution actually matters to social, economic or political outcomes. It then presents a typology of three forms of institutional weakness: insignificance, in which rules are complied with but do not affect the way actors behave; non-compliance, in which state elites either choose not to enforce the rules or fail to gain societal cooperation with them; and instability, in which the rules are changed at an unusually high rate. The Element then examines the sources of institutional weakness.

The Fourth Enemy

Author : James Cane
Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271099860
Total Pages : 330 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book The Fourth Enemy written by James Cane and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2015-06-17 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The rise of Juan Perón to power in Argentina in the 1940s is one of the most studied subjects in Argentine history. But no book before this has examined the role the Peronists’ struggle with the major commercial newspaper media played in the movement’s evolution, or what the resulting transformation of this industry meant for the normative and practical redefinition of the relationships among state, press, and public. In The Fourth Enemy, James Cane traces the violent confrontations, backroom deals, and legal actions that allowed Juan Domingo Perón to convert Latin America’s most vibrant commercial newspaper industry into the region’s largest state-dominated media empire. An interdisciplinary study drawing from labor history, communication studies, and the history of ideas, this book shows how decades-old conflicts within the newspaper industry helped shape not just the social crises from which Peronism emerged, but the very nature of the Peronist experiment as well.

Competitive Authoritarianism

Author : Steven Levitsky
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139491482
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (394 download)

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Download or read book Competitive Authoritarianism written by Steven Levitsky and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010-08-16 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Based on a detailed study of 35 cases in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and post-communist Eurasia, this book explores the fate of competitive authoritarian regimes between 1990 and 2008. It finds that where social, economic, and technocratic ties to the West were extensive, as in Eastern Europe and the Americas, the external cost of abuse led incumbents to cede power rather than crack down, which led to democratization. Where ties to the West were limited, external democratizing pressure was weaker and countries rarely democratized. In these cases, regime outcomes hinged on the character of state and ruling party organizations. Where incumbents possessed developed and cohesive coercive party structures, they could thwart opposition challenges, and competitive authoritarian regimes survived; where incumbents lacked such organizational tools, regimes were unstable but rarely democratized.

Poor People's Politics

Author : Javier Auyero
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822326212
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (262 download)

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Download or read book Poor People's Politics written by Javier Auyero and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: DIVExamines how Argentina's urban poor use political networks and informal webs of reciprocal help to solve their everyday survival needs/div

The Inclusionary Turn in Latin American Democracies

Author : Diana Kapiszewski
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 110890159X
Total Pages : 587 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (89 download)

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Book Synopsis The Inclusionary Turn in Latin American Democracies by : Diana Kapiszewski

Download or read book The Inclusionary Turn in Latin American Democracies written by Diana Kapiszewski and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-02-04 with total page 587 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Latin American states took dramatic steps toward greater inclusion during the late twentieth and early twenty-first Centuries. Bringing together an accomplished group of scholars, this volume examines this shift by introducing three dimensions of inclusion: official recognition of historically excluded groups, access to policymaking, and resource redistribution. Tracing the movement along these dimensions since the 1990s, the editors argue that the endurance of democratic politics, combined with longstanding social inequalities, create the impetus for inclusionary reforms. Diverse chapters explore how factors such as the role of partisanship and electoral clientelism, constitutional design, state capacity, social protest, populism, commodity rents, international diffusion, and historical legacies encouraged or inhibited inclusionary reform during the late 1990s and early 2000s. Featuring original empirical evidence and a strong theoretical framework, the book considers cross-national variation, delves into the surprising paradoxes of inclusion, and identifies the obstacles hindering further fundamental change.

Transforming Labor-Based Parties in Latin America

Author : Steven Levitsky
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521016971
Total Pages : 310 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (169 download)

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Book Synopsis Transforming Labor-Based Parties in Latin America by : Steven Levitsky

Download or read book Transforming Labor-Based Parties in Latin America written by Steven Levitsky and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2003-01-20 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Table of contents

Labor Unions, Partisan Coalitions, and Market Reforms in Latin America

Author : Maria Victoria Murillo
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521785556
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (855 download)

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Book Synopsis Labor Unions, Partisan Coalitions, and Market Reforms in Latin America by : Maria Victoria Murillo

Download or read book Labor Unions, Partisan Coalitions, and Market Reforms in Latin America written by Maria Victoria Murillo and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2001-05-14 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why labor unions resisted and submitted during the economic crises of the 1990s.

Policymaking in Latin America

Author : Pablo T. Spiller
Publisher : Inter-American Development Bank
ISBN 13 : 159782061X
Total Pages : 516 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (978 download)

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Book Synopsis Policymaking in Latin America by : Pablo T. Spiller

Download or read book Policymaking in Latin America written by Pablo T. Spiller and published by Inter-American Development Bank. This book was released on 2008-01-01 with total page 516 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What determines the capacity of countries to design, approve and implement effective public policies? To address this question, this book builds on the results of case studies of political institutions, policymaking processes, and policy outcomes in eight Latin American countries. The result is a volume that benefits from both micro detail on the intricacies of policymaking in individual countries and a broad cross-country interdisciplinary analysis of policymaking processes in the region.

Informal Institutions and Democracy

Author : Gretchen Helmke
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 9780801883514
Total Pages : 378 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (835 download)

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Book Synopsis Informal Institutions and Democracy by : Gretchen Helmke

Download or read book Informal Institutions and Democracy written by Gretchen Helmke and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2006-08-28 with total page 378 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The volume emerged out of two conferences on informal institutions. The first, entitled 'Informal Institutions and Politics in the Developing World, ' was held at Harvard University in April 2002 ... The second conference, entitled 'Informal Institutions and Politics in Latin America: Understanding the Rules of the Game, ' was held at the Kellogg Institute for International Studies, University of Notre Dame, in April 2003"--Pref

Party Systems in Latin America

Author : Scott Mainwaring
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107175526
Total Pages : 525 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Party Systems in Latin America written by Scott Mainwaring and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-02-08 with total page 525 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book generates a wealth of new empirical information about Latin American party systems and contributes richly to major theoretical debates about party systems and democracy.

Challenges of Party-Building in Latin America

Author : Steven Levitsky
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107145945
Total Pages : 573 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (71 download)

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Download or read book Challenges of Party-Building in Latin America written by Steven Levitsky and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2016-10-13 with total page 573 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents a new and conflict-centered theory of successful party-building, drawing on diverse cases from across Latin America.

Welfare and Party Politics in Latin America

Author : Jennifer Pribble
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107030226
Total Pages : 233 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (7 download)

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Download or read book Welfare and Party Politics in Latin America written by Jennifer Pribble and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-04-22 with total page 233 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the variation in welfare and other social assistance policies in Latin America.

Populists in Power

Author : Daniele Albertazzi
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317535022
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)

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Download or read book Populists in Power written by Daniele Albertazzi and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-02-11 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The main area of sustained populist growth in recent decades has been Western Europe, where populist parties have not only endured longer than expected, but have increasingly begun to enter government. Focusing on three high-profile cases in Italy and Switzerland – the Popolo della Libertà (PDL), Lega Nord (LN) and Schweizerische Volkspartei (SVP) – Populists in Power is the first in-depth comparative study to examine whether these parties are indeed doomed to failure in office as many commentators have claimed. Albertazzi and McDonnell’s findings run contrary to much of the received wisdom. Based on extensive original research and fieldwork, they show that populist parties can be built to last, can achieve key policy victories and can survive the experience of government, without losing the support of either the voters or those within their parties. Contributing a new perspective to studies in populist politics, Populists in Power is essential reading for undergraduate and postgraduate students, as well as scholars interested in modern government, parties and politics.

Transforming Latin America

Author : Craig Arceneaux
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
ISBN 13 : 0822972808
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (229 download)

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Download or read book Transforming Latin America written by Craig Arceneaux and published by University of Pittsburgh Pre. This book was released on 2005-07-14 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This ambitious book offers a clear and unified framework for understanding political change across Latin America. The impact of U.S. hegemony and the global economic system on the region is widely known, and scholars and advocates alike point to Latin America's vulnerability in the face of external forces. In spite of such foreign pressure, however, individual countries continue to chart their own courses, displaying considerable variation in political and economic life. Looking broadly across the Western Hemisphere, with examples from Brazil, the Southern Cone, the Andes, and Central America, Arceneaux and Pion-Berlin identify general rules that explain how international and domestic politics interact in specific contexts. The detailed, accessible case studies cast new light on such central problems as neoliberal economic reform, democratization, human rights, regional security, environmental degradation, drug trafficking, and immigration. And they consider not only what actors, institutions, and ideas matter in particular political contexts, but when, where, and how they matter. By dividing issues into the domains of "high" and "low" politics, and differentiating between short-term problems and more permanent concerns, they create an innovative typology for analyzing a wide variety of political events and trends.

Boundary Control

Author : Edward L. Gibson
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139851012
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (398 download)

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Download or read book Boundary Control written by Edward L. Gibson and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2013-01-07 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The democratization of a national government is only a first step in diffusing democracy throughout a country's territory. Even after a national government is democratized, subnational authoritarian 'enclaves' often continue to deny rights to citizens of local jurisdictions. Gibson offers new theoretical perspectives for the study of democratization in his exploration of this phenomenon. His theory of 'boundary control' captures the conflict pattern between incumbents and oppositions when a national democratic government exists alongside authoritarian provinces (or 'states'). He also reveals how federalism and the territorial organization of countries shape how subnational authoritarian regimes are built and how they unravel. Through a novel comparison of the late nineteenth-century American 'Solid South' with contemporary experiences in Argentina and Mexico, Gibson reveals that the mechanisms of boundary control are reproduced across countries and historical periods. As long as subnational authoritarian governments coexist with national democratic governments, boundary control will be at play.