Latin America: Eight lessons for governance

Journal of Democracy

Volumn 19, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 113-127

  Mainwaring, Scott ^a   Scully, Timothy R ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME   (United States)

^b Department of Political Science ^*

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EID: 49149093759     PISSN: 10455736     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
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References (27)

1. Larry Diamond and Leonardo Morlino, eds., Assessing the Quality of Democracy (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005);
2. Guillermo O'Donnell, Jorge Vargas Cullell, and Osvaldo M. Iazzetta, eds., The Quality of Democracy: Theory and Applications (Notre Dame: University of Notre Dame Press, 2004).
3. Francis Fukuyama, The End of History and the Last Man (New York: Free Press, 1992).
4. Aníbal Pérez-Liñán, Presidential Impeachment and the New Political Instability in Latin America (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007).
5. World Bank, 2007 WDI World Development Indicators (Washington, D.C.: The World Bank, 2007). Calculated in 2000 constant dollars in purchasing power parity.
6. Data on poverty come from the Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, "Social Panorama of Latin America 2007," Briefing Paper, 11. Available at www.eclac.cl/publicaciones/default.asp?idioma=IN.
7. See Pan American Health Organization (PAHO), Health Analysis and Statistics Unit. Regional Core Health Data Initiative; Technical Health Information System. Washington DC, 2007. The data for Bolivia and Peru defy credibility; the reported homicide rates are too low. This source gives no data for Honduras, known to have a high homicide rate, and for Haiti. Available at www.paho.org/English/SHA/coredata/tabulator/newsq/Tabulador.asp.
8. Juan Linz and Alfred Stepan, Problems of Democratic Transition and Consolidation: Southern Europe, South America, and Post-Communist Europe (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press. 1996), 16-37;
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10. Alejandro Foxley, "More Market or More State for Latin America," in Scott Mainwaring and Timothy R. Scully, eds., Democratic Governance in Latin America (Stanford: Stanford University Press, forthcoming);
11. Moisés Naím, "Latin America: The Second Stage of Reform," Journal of Democracy 5 (October 1994): 32-48.
12. PAHO, "Guidelines for the Design, Implementation, and Evaluation of Epidemiological Surveillance Systems on Violence and Injuries," 2006, 7. Available at www.paho.org.
13. Daniel Brinks, The Judicial Response to Police Killings in Latin America: Inequality and the Rule of Law (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007);
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16. See www.cepal.org/ilpes.
17. Of course, high taxes can be a drag on economic growth. Many analysts believe that this is true in Brazil today.
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20. Scott Mainwaring and Mariano Torcal, "Party System Institutionalization and Party System Theory After the Third Wave of Democratization," in Richard S. Katz and William Crotty, eds., Handbook of Political Parties (London: Sage, 2006), 204-27.
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22. Matthew Soberg Shugart and John M. Carey, Presidents and Assemblies: Constitutional Design and Electoral Dynamics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1992);
23. José Antonio Cheibub, Presidentialism, Parliamentarism, and Democracy (New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007).
24. Gretchen Helmke and Steven Levitsky, eds., Informal Institutions and Democracy: Lessons from Latin America (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2006).
25. Sylvia Hewlitt, The Cruel Dilemmas of Development: Twentieth Century Brazil (New York: Basic Books, 1980).
26. Morris Fiorina, Retrospective Voting in American National Elections (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1981).
27. John Williamson, "An Agenda for Restarting Growth and Reform," in Pedro-Pablo Kuczynski and John Williamson, eds., After the Washington Consensus: Restarting Growth and Reform in Latin America (Washington, D.C: Institute for International Economics, 2003), 1-19.