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Author | : Leslie E. Anderson |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 305 |
Release | : 2016-08-09 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 047205323X |
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The case of Argentina demonstrates that formal government institutions can facilitate democratization
Author | : Leslie E Anderson |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2016-08-25 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0472122320 |
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In this pioneering study of democratization in Argentina, Leslie Anderson challenges Robert Putnam’s thesis that democracy requires high levels of social capital. She demonstrates in Democratization by Institutions that formal institutions (e.g., the executive, the legislature, the courts) can serve not only as operational parts within democracy but as the driving force toward democracy. As Anderson astutely observes, the American founders debated the merits of the institutions they were creating. Examining how, and how well, Argentina’s American-style institutional structure functions, she considers the advantages and risks of the separation of powers, checks and balances, legislative policymaking, and strong presidential power. During the democratic transition, the Argentinian state has used institutions to address immediate policy challenges in ways responsive to citizens and thereby to provide a supportive environment in which social capital can develop. By highlighting the role that institutions can play in leading a nation out of authoritarianism, even when social capital is low, Anderson begins a new conversation about the possibilities of democratization. Democratization by Institutions has much to say not only to Latin Americanists and scholars of democratization but also to those interested in the U.S. constitutional structure and its application in other parts of the world.
Author | : G. Shabbir Cheema |
Publisher | : Kumarian Press |
Total Pages | : 289 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1565491971 |
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Annotation Bridges the gap between theoretical literature and the tools and practices needed to strengthen or rebuild democratic institutions and reform governance systems. Through case studies and examples of good practices of governance, Cheema assesses the conditions that make democracy work.
Author | : National Research Council |
Publisher | : National Academies Press |
Total Pages | : 94 |
Release | : 1992-02-01 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0309047978 |
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The global movement toward democracy, spurred in part by the ending of the cold war, has created opportunities for democratization not only in Europe and the former Soviet Union, but also in Africa. This book is based on workshops held in Benin, Ethiopia, and Namibia to better understand the dynamics of contemporary democratic movements in Africa. Key issues in the democratization process range from its institutional and political requirements to specific problems such as ethnic conflict, corruption, and role of donors in promoting democracy. By focusing on the opinion and views of African intellectuals, academics, writers, and political activists and observers, the book provides a unique perspective regarding the dynamics and problems of democratization in Africa.
Author | : Mahfuzul H. Chowdhury |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 261 |
Release | : 2017-11-01 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1351773917 |
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Title first published in 2003. Chowdhury looks at the problems of democratization and development as it relates to building democratic institutions in the newly democratizing countries such as Bangladesh, India and Pakistan.
Author | : Nic Cheeseman |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 399 |
Release | : 2018-02-22 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107148243 |
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Offers new research on the vital importance of institutions, such as presidential term-limits in the African democratisation processes.
Author | : Lucio Levi |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2014 |
Genre | : POLITICAL SCIENCE |
ISBN | : 9781857437041 |
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""Discusses the dynamics of democratization affecting most international institutions. Provides a general theoretical assessment of the process of democratization of international organizations and integrates case studies from global, regional and inter-regional organizations"--Provided by publisher"--Provided by publisher.
Author | : Françoise Montambeault |
Publisher | : Stanford University Press |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 2015-10-14 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0804796572 |
Download The Politics of Local Participatory Democracy in Latin America Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Participatory democracy innovations aimed at bringing citizens back into local governance processes are now at the core of the international democratic development agenda. Municipalities around the world have adopted local participatory mechanisms of various types in the last two decades, including participatory budgeting, the flagship Brazilian program, and participatory planning, as it is the case in several Mexican municipalities. Yet, institutionalized participatory mechanisms have had mixed results in practice at the municipal level. So why and how does success vary? This book sets out to answer that question. Defining democratic success as a transformation of state-society relationships, the author goes beyond the clientelism/democracy dichotomy and reveals that four types of state-society relationships can be observed in practice: clientelism, disempowering co-option, fragmented inclusion, and democratic cooperation. Using this typology, and drawing on the comparative case study of four cities in Mexico and Brazil, the book demonstrates that the level of democratic success is best explained by an approach that accounts for institutional design, structural conditions of mobilization, and the configurations, strategies, behaviors, and perceptions of both state and societal actors. Thus, institutional change alone does not guarantee democratic success: the way these institutional changes are enacted by both political and social actors is even more important as it conditions the potential for an autonomous civil society to emerge and actively engage with the local state in the social construction of an inclusive citizenship.
Author | : Steven Levitsky |
Publisher | : Penn State Press |
Total Pages | : 338 |
Release | : 2005 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 0271027169 |
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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.
Author | : Gretchen Helmke |
Publisher | : JHU Press |
Total Pages | : 362 |
Release | : 2006-08-28 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0801883512 |
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"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