Democratic governance in Latin Americaedited by Scott Mainwaring and Timothy R. Scully.

Democratic governance in Latin Americaedited by Scott Mainwaring and Timothy R. Scully. - Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, (c)2010. - 1 online resource (xvii, 415 pages :) illustrations.

Includes bibliographies and index.

Measuring success in democratic governance / Economic growth in Latin America : from the disappointment of the twentieth century to the challenges of the twenty-first / Does one size fit all in policy reform? : cross-national evidence and its implications for Latin America / More market or more state for Latin America? / Social policy and democratic governance in Latin America / The rule of law as a governance issue : lessons from the prosecution of rights violations / Political institutions, populism, and democracy in Latin America / Democratic governance in Chile / Limits to Costa Rican heterodoxy : what has changed in "paradise"? / Structural reform and governability : the Brazilian experience in the 1990s / Democratic governance in Latin America : eleven lessons from recent experience / Postscript : democratic governance in Latin America / Scott Mainwaring, Timothy R. Scully, and Jorge Vargas Cullell -- José De Gregorio -- Francisco Rodríguez -- Alejandro Foxley -- Evelyne Huber and John Stephens -- Daniel Brinks -- Patricio Navia and Ignacio Walker -- Alan Angell -- Mitchell Seligson and Juliana Martínez Franzoni -- Fernando Henrique Cardoso -- Scott Mainwaring and Timothy R. Scully -- José Miguel Insulza.



9780804772969




Democracy--Latin America.


Electronic Books.

JL966 / .D466 2010