Democratic governance in Latin America
By: edited by Scott Mainwaring and Timothy R. Scully.
Contributors: Mainwaring, Scott, 1954-; Scully, Timothy.
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780804760843; 9780804760850
Subjects: Democracy -- Latin America; Latin America -- Politics and government -- 1980-; Latin America -- Economic conditions -- 1982-
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Measuring success in democratic governance / Scott Mainwaring, Timothy R. Scully, and Jorge Vargas Cullell; title: Economic growth in Latin America : from the disappointment of the twentieth century to the challenges of the twenty-first / José De Gregorio; title: Does one size fit all in policy reform? : cross-national evidence and its implications for Latin America / Francisco Rodríguez; title: More market or more state for Latin America? / Alejandro Foxley; title: Social policy and democratic governance in Latin America / Evelyne Huber and John Stephens; title: The rule of law as a governance issue : lessons from the prosecution of rights violations / Daniel Brinks; title: Political institutions, populism, and democracy in Latin America / Patricio Navia and Ignacio Walker; title: Democratic governance in Chile / Alan Angell; title: Limits to Costa Rican heterodoxy : what has changed in "paradise"? / Mitchell Seligson and Juliana Martínez Franzoni; title: Structural reform and governability : the Brazilian experience in the 1990s / Fernando Henrique Cardoso; title: Democratic governance in Latin America : eleven lessons from recent experience / Scott Mainwaring and Timothy R. Scully; title: Postscript : democratic governance in Latin America / José Miguel Insulza.