Argentine Democracy: The Politics of Institutional Weakness

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During the 1990s Argentina was once the one country in Latin The us to combine radical economic reform and full democracy. In 2001, on the other hand, the country fell into a deep political and economic crisis and was once widely seen as a basket case. This book explores both developments, examining the links between the (real and apparent) successes of the 1990s and the 2001 collapse. Specific topics include economic policymaking and reform, executive-legislative relations, the judiciary, federalism, political parties and the party system, and new patterns of social protest.

Beyond its empirical analysis, the book contributes to several theoretical debates in comparative politics. Recent studies of political institutions center of attention almost exclusively on institutional design, neglecting issues of enforcement and stability. Yet a huge problem in much of Latin The us is that institutions of diverse types have frequently failed to take root.

Besides examining the effects of institutional weakness, the book also uses the Argentine case to make clear four other areas of current debate: tensions between radical economic reform and democracy; political parties and Recent crises of representation; links between subnational and national politics; and the transformation of state-society relations within the post-corporatist era.

Besides the editors, the contributors are Javier Auyero, Ernesto Calvo, Kent Eaton, Sebastián Etchemendy, Gretchen Helmke, Wonjae Hwang, Mark Jones, Enrique Peruzzotti, Pablo T. Spiller, Mariano Tommasi, and Juan Carlos Torre.

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