The politics of institutional weakness in Latin America
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The politics of institutional weakness in Latin America
Cambridge University Press, 2020
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  Yamagata
  Fukushima
  Ibaraki
  Tochigi
  Gunma
  Saitama
  Chiba
  Tokyo
  Kanagawa
  Niigata
  Toyama
  Ishikawa
  Fukui
  Yamanashi
  Nagano
  Gifu
  Shizuoka
  Aichi
  Mie
  Shiga
  Kyoto
  Osaka
  Hyogo
  Nara
  Wakayama
  Tottori
  Shimane
  Okayama
  Hiroshima
  Yamaguchi
  Tokushima
  Kagawa
  Ehime
  Kochi
  Fukuoka
  Saga
  Nagasaki
  Kumamoto
  Oita
  Miyazaki
  Kagoshima
  Okinawa
  Korea
  China
  Thailand
  United Kingdom
  Germany
  Switzerland
  France
  Belgium
  Netherlands
  Sweden
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  United States of America
Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 299-332) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
Analysts and policymakers often decry the failure of institutions to accomplish their stated purpose. Bringing together leading scholars of Latin American politics, this volume helps us understand why. The volume offers a conceptual and theoretical framework for studying weak institutions. It introduces different dimensions of institutional weakness and explores the origins and consequences of that weakness. Drawing on recent research on constitutional and electoral reform, executive-legislative relations, property rights, environmental and labor regulation, indigenous rights, squatters and street vendors, and anti-domestic violence laws in Latin America, the volume's chapters show us that politicians often design institutions that they cannot or do not want to enforce or comply with. Challenging existing theories of institutional design, the volume helps us understand the logic that drives the creation of weak institutions, as well as the conditions under which they may be transformed into institutions that matter.
Table of Contents
- 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.
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