Audacious reforms : institutional invention and democracy in Latin America /
Audacious Reforms examines the creation of new political institutions in three Latin American countries: direct elections for governors and mayors in Venezuela, radical municipalization in Bolivia, and direct election of the mayor of Buenos Aires in Argentina. Diverging from the usual incremental pr...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Baltimore :
Johns Hopkins University Press,
2000.
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Full text (MFA users only) |
| ISBN: | 0801877881 9780801877889 0801864208 9780801864209 0801864216 9780801864216 |
| Local Note: | ProQuest Ebook Central |
Table of Contents:
- 1. Audacious reforms : democratizing Latin America
- 2. Explaining the unexpected
- 3. Institutional invention in Venezuela : legitimizing the system
- 4. New rules of the game : consequences of change in Venezuela
- 5. Political engineering in Bolivia : the law for popular participation
- 6. A new conundrum : national-local politics in Bolivia
- 7. Pacting institutional change in Argentina
- 8. Waiting for Godot? constitutional change in Argentine practice
- 9. Democratizing reforms : origins and consequences.