The Politics of Institutional Weakness in Latin America

Herausgeber: Brinks, Daniel M; Murillo, María Victoria; Levitsky, Steven

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Produktbeschreibung

Rather than an unintended by-product of poor state capacity, weak political and legal institutions are often weak by design.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 354
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. Juni 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 230mm x 160mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 635g
• ISBN-13: 9781108489331
• ISBN-10: 1108489338
• Artikelnr.: 58380165

Inhaltsangabe

1. Theorizing weak institutions; 2. When (electoral) opportunity knocks:
weak institutions, political shocks, and electoral reforms in Latin
America; 3. The stickiness of 'bad' institutions: constitutional continuity
and change under democracy; 4. Presidential crises in Latin America; 5.
Coercion gaps; 6. Aspirational laws as weak institutions: legislation to
combat violence against women in Mexico; 7. The social determinants of
enforcement: integrating politics with limited state capacity; 8. A
multilevel approach to enforcement: forest protection in the Argentine
Chaco; 9. What/whose property rights? The selective enforcement of land
rights under Mexican liberalism; 10. Imported institutions: boon or bane in
the developing world? 11. Social origins of institutional strength: prior
consultation over extraction of hydrocarbons in Bolivia; 12. Conclusion.