Democratic governance in Latin America
By: edited by Scott Mainwaring and Timothy R. Scully
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Stanford, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 415
ISBN-13: 9780804760843
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Part one: variance in success: economics, social policy, and the state; 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? a reflection for the post-crisis / Alejandro Foxley; title: Successful social policy regimes? political economy, politics, and social policy in Argentina, Chile, Uruguay, and Costa Rica / Evelyne Huber and John D. Stephens; title: Institutional design and judicial effectiveness: lessons from the prosecution of rights violations for democratic governance and the rule of law / Daniel M. Brinks; title: Political institutions, populism, and democracy in Latin America / Patricio Navia and Ignacio Walker; title: Part two: Country cases: explaining success; title: Democratic governance in Chile / Alan Angell; title: Limits to Costa Rican heterodoxy: what has changed in "paradise"? / Mitchell A. Seligson and Juliana Martínez Franzoni; title: Structural reform and governability: the Brazilian experience in the 1990s / Fernando Henrique Cardoso; title: Part three: conclusion; 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.