Democratic governance in Latin America [electronic resource] / edited by Scott Mainwaring and Timothy R. Scully. - Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2010. - xvii, 415 p. : ill.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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


Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.

9780804772969 (electronic bk.)




Democracy--Latin America.


Latin America--Politics and government--1980-
Latin America--Economic conditions--1982-


Electronic books.

JL966 / .D4575 2010

321.8098