Why do some parties fail to benefit from patronage in pork‐ridden political systems? This
article analyzes the interaction between patronage and partisanship to explain why some …

Both advocates and critics of decentralization assume that decentralization invariably
increases the power of subnational governments. However, a closer examination of the …

This article explores how new groups can be marginalized after they gain representation in
the legislature. We use data from six Latin American legislatures to examine the effect of …

This article analyses how institutional and contextual factors explain the approval of
presidential initiatives–presidential legislative success–in highly disciplined and cartelized …

In shifting to decentralized public finances, a country's central government faces certain
fiscal management problems. First, during and soon after the transition, unless it reduces …

Tanto los defensores como los detractores de la descentralización suponen que ésta
invariablemente aumenta el poder de los gobiernos subnacionales. Sin embargo, un …

Tulia Falleti (Ph. D. Northwestern University, 2003) is Assistant Professor of Political Science
at the University of Pennsylvania. She specializes in issues of federalism, intergovernmental …

I examine the contribution of institutional breakdowns to long-run development, drawing on
Argentina's unique departure from a rich country on the eve of World War I to an …

Este artigo analisa os efeitos de políticas de descentralização na evolução das relações de
poder entre presidentes, governadores e prefeitos no Brasil, após o fim do estado …

In returning to democratic rule in December 1983, Argentina became part of the world-wide
trend initiated in the 1970s, which Samuel Huntington labelledthe third wave of …